Re: Steam Users Co-operate

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:25:23 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

So, there's a recent report that indicates people on Steam play more
noncompetitive games than gamers on consoles.* It's not that PVP is
unpopular on the platform, but PVE is more favored... and that number
is increasing.

I don't follow what goes on in the console game world at all, other
than the passing observation I made in cross play games like COD,
where the number of console players typically dwarfs the PC players by
at least 8 to 1, at least in the matches I join (but then again I
don't know if that's a decision the matchmaking engine makes to try to
balance things out between more fortunate mouse-weilders and lessen
the extent to which we pummel the fuck out of our gamepad-holding
victims).

But because I don't know what goes on in console-land, I don't know
how the percentage of released games there that people actually play
compares to the PvP offerings on Steam, but I will say that there are
very few worthwhile titles being relased on Steam compared to 10, 15
or 20 years ago, so what has happened to folks I know that were
heavily into it is they either spend more time on other hobbies
(that's me) due to lack of games worth playing, or they just spent
more time in single player or co-op (PC Gamer indicated in another
recent article that Newzoo lumps in single player and PvE coop as "non
competitive" gaming, so they are one in the same for purpose of this
discussion).

Meanwhile I know COD is always huge on consoles no matter what, and
consoles overall have larger numbers because of the low cost of entry.

So those factors probably account for any metrics indicating less PvP
action on PC.