PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com)

Motherboard has an article in which it argues that PC gaming is still way too hard. The author of the article claims that for one to build a gaming PC, they need an "unreasonable" amount of disposable income, and also have an unreasonable amount of time to "research, shop around, and assemble parts" for their computer. The author adds that a person looking into making one such gear also needs to always have to keep investing time and money in as long as they want to stay at the cutting edge or recommended specifications range for new PC games. The author has shared the experience he had building his own gaming PC. An excerpt from it: The process of physically building a PC is filled with little frustrations, and mistakes can be costly and time consuming. I have big, dumb, sausage fingers, so mounting the motherboard into the case, and screwing in nine (!) tiny screws to keep it in place in a cramped space, in weird angles, where dropping the screwdriver can easily break something expensive -- it's just not what I'd call "consumer-friendly." This is why people buy from Apple. It designs everything from the trackpad to the box the computer comes in, which unfolds neatly to reveal everything you need. Apple reduces friction to the point where even my mom could upgrade the RAM on her iMac, and it can do this because it controls everything that goes in that box.That's accurate. But it also means -- at least as of today -- that the current Apple computer -- MacBook Air, MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini you purchase packs in at least three-year-old components.

Comments

Not everyone should be a PC Gamer.

[Grog6]

The dick in the above referenced article is a good example of a millennial geek.

A Complete pussy; like all the modern 'geeks' I see who, if something is hard, buy a prepackaged piece of shit to do most of it for them; like an Xbone or Playscool box with auto aim so they can hit something.

"Why write code, if I can download it off the internet?" - nameless intern, last fall.

People don't do things because they're hard to do anymore, because it's hard to do, lol.

Even the new DOOM game on PC is watered down with "hack modules" because otherwise combat is too hard.

All the new PC games are complete crap, ported over from the Xbone.

IMHO, The last Good PC FPS was Crysis Wars, and we can still run our own private servers, so no cheats. :)

Quake 2 & 3 runs on almost anything; We play those in the PMT lab on raspberry Pi's, and yes, I do use a keyboard. :)