lack of tools has ensured that modding has taken a major back seat across the board. It's essentially just cfg edits, asset swaps, incredibly basic shit. Devs don't release tools any more, and if they do, it's extremely basic shit and rarely ever the actual tools developers used.
essentially ran by commies these days.
has been a PC-centric issue since the 70s, not going anywhere.
kind-of, there's a major obstacle to this: consumer base.
sorta, this is a complicated thing and anyone who has ever played a game from even 10 years ago on a modern OS will tell you it's not a simple double click and hop in. It's rarely even this for modern games. Once you get into the emulator territory, it stops becoming an advantage of the platform and more just an option.
There's a few key issues here, but it kind of all comes back to money. There isn't enough of an audience on PC and there's a lot of mixed messages about the actual numbers of a reliable consumer base for genre X or Y. You can point to studies that bring in facebook, mmos, dota, or CS, but find the average player for these games and they will mostly say it's the only thing that they play. The consumers we have on Holla Forums are the kind of super-consumers who partake in a variety of genres and fields, become enthusiastic about some genres, these sort of super-consumer exists in other communities and you can find the type on dedicated PC boards all around.
The issue is, this audience is really small on the PC. They tend to be more focused on consoles, likely due to the primary purpose of consoles it attracts these people in a more mainstream sense - whereas a PC intended to have games played on them for numerous reasons is a more niche audience. This is also connected to money - and yes, point to your $300 console killers that can't even run modern releases but has "le specs and numbers that put the PS4 pro to shame!" but the reality is those are joke builds that anyone who seriously bought into should and likely does feel tremendous regret.
I used to care a lot about PC gaming, it was the platform I identified closest with, but I think it's more prone to the shit I hate the most than any other platform. That and the good qualities have essentially been dropped. I saw another post recently where someone described the phrase how "consoles these days are just shitty, locked down PCs" and he turned it around and described it as "PCs are pretty much just consoles these days" and the more I think about it, he's right. Even then consoles have some notable benefits over PC and these perks just simply can't be ignored, things like true ownership, having your games work more often than not, earlier releases, more immediate developer support. The nightmare that was arkham knight was repeated several times this generation, but for consoles? Apart from joke games like black panther or whatever it was or ubisoft tetris, I can't think of a single instance.
