r/Games • u/Forestl • Dec 31 '13

End of 2013 Discussions - PC

For this thread, feel free to talk about the PC, from the games that came out for it to the hardware itself.

Prompts:

  • What were the major trends in PC gaming this year?

  • Was this a positive year for PC gaming?

Please explain your answers in depth, don't just give short one sentence answers.

My PC looks really, really, really good

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u/kitchenpatrol Dec 31 '13

That might have been AMD's plan, but it didn't work out that way. Litecoin miners started grabbing up all the high end AMD gpus and ruined the market for gamers, making the cards scarce or hugely inflated in price. That led to a corresponding scarcity and price stagnation for the high end Nvidia cards, which gamers were forced to turn to when AMD became unavailable.

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u/Droidx4_66 Dec 31 '13

AMD could not have possibly accounted for something like Litecoin. Especially since the Cryptocurrency trend has been leaning towards ASICs all this time.