1. Anything made by Blizzard is AAA.

2. When was the last time when Consoles got AAA exclusive not held hostage by Sony or Microsoft? Seems like no one makes exclusives for Consoles willingly anymore. They only do that for PC.

3. PC has indie, AA (mid tier) as well as AAA exclusives. “AAA” mostly used for Console games or big multiplats from EA, Ubisoft or Activision is just a buzz word. These games are overpriced half as*ed games with no replay value. A game doesn’t need countless TV ads to be called “AAA”. I’ll take beautifully handcrafted RPG made by 40 people over, over hyped dude bro shooter crap made by 1000 people with 200 million dollars marketing.

4. People look back and say, it’s not getting great games like xyz anymore, that it used to get in the past but the fact is, PC gaming never got as much media attention as Console games got. All of awesome PC games became famous as time progressed. Games like Mafia or Freelancer weren’t hyped to death. They were overshadowed by GTA and other mainstream games but became legendary as they became famous few years later. Same is the case here. People who say PC doesn’t get great games anymore will be remembering current games 10 years from now and complaining that it doesn’t get those games anymore.

5. PC is indeed in its second golden age. Those who say otherwise don’t know where to look. There are so many awesome games that are coming out in 2016 for PC only that it’s not even funny including Total Warhammer, Inner Chains, XCom 2, Divinity Original Sin 2, Dirt Rally, Black Desert, Squadron 42, Unreal Tournament and so on. Then you have PC centric multiplats and timed exclusives like Overwatch, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Everspace, Shadow Warrior 2 and many others. It doesn’t matter how the game was funded. What matters is a good game and luckily PC has games that are funded by publishers, by devs themselves as well as by crowd.

6. It’s funny when Console gamers say that all PC have is low budget indies and when they are asked to post list of their exclusive, they post a list full of last gen indie ports, so called “teh console exclusives”, remasters, and bunch of filler crap with only 2 or 3 real high profile exclusives and most of those high profile exclusives are yet another run of the mill shooters. Console gaming is dead… Current consoles are wanna be PCs with terrible library of games. PC is the single most interesting platform right now. Learn to try different genres and stuff and you’ll never be bored. Just because mainstream crappy websites and game awards don’t mention PC games and only advertise games with bigger marketing budget doesn’t mean there aren’t PC specific games. Don’t let them brainwash you. And some of the biggest “AAA” games are made by handful of people. Portal 2 had team of 30 people, Alan wake had Team of roughly 40 people, same goes for Divinity OS but it just didn’t have marketing of other two games. So you don’t need a team of 1000 devs to make so called AAA game full of dude bro crap like COD. On other hand the most expensive exclusive of all time is a PC exclusive, it’s called Star Wars The Old Republic, which cost 200 million dollars to make. But as I said, it doesn’t matter. It’s not even half as good as World of Warcraft. Good game is a good game. Bad is bad.

And those “AAA” games don’t even have enough content. Every year they charge more and give players less and less to play. Halo 5 lacked content that was always in previous games and now the game is full of microtransactions. Look at so called “AAA” from EA called Battlefront.

They are charging 120 bucks for that half as*ed game. Meanwhile I can play Divinity OS for 40 USD and enjoy the game for 70+ hours and it has a lot of replay value. What’s the point? The only advantage that games like Battlefront have are TV ads and Celebrity cameos, used to attract casuals.

I prefer to keep the devs in charge, to make a true PC game,
Rather than, any AAA Publisher. making decisions based on profit proections.
Gaming PC users are to small a group, to get games based on profit.
To get true PC games we have to fully fund them. That removes profit as a motive for making the game, the only motive is to make a great PC game, the backers can help the devs try to create the game they desire. They only have to try, success is the reward, the crowdfunders profit is the finished game.

It’s investing in games though, that’s as risky for Publishers as for crowdfunders, their rewards for success are just different.

A fully crowdfunded game doesn’t succeed by selling games, after release. It succeeds by giving the backers their rewards.
Mostly that’s the game, post release sales are a bonus.