The past several years have led to some soul searching for the PC gaming community, as AAA releases at retail have mostly been replaced by digital offerings and free-to-play online games. Jordan Maynard, Chief Creative Officer at A Bit Lucky thinks that PC gaming is getting more comfortable with its new skin.
“I think the PC gaming press is discovering what to cover,” said Maynard. “While initially there was a lot of rejection of the F2P space, games like League of Legends are making them rethink that. Facebook is on your PC so it is sort of PC gaming, but they didn't want to believe it [at first]. One of our goals was with Lucky Space is to take the goal of building up a base like Command & Conquer with the power in Civilization of controlling an empire. Something like Crysis I have no interest in playing, but I think there's some interesting things on PC, and I'm huge fan of classic PC games. I've worked on Spore so I've seen first hand some of the potential, and I know there's some interesting stuff on the horizon.”
“Penny Arcade has done a number of League of Legends comics,” he added. “And I remember one where they were talking about how much it costs and being like, 'It's free.' 'So how much have you spent on it?' '$8,000' showing how the economics of it can work.”
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