Sat, Feb 19, 2011 | 16:50 GMT

Founding members Microsoft and Nvidia depart PC Gaming Alliance

PC Gaming Alliance president Matt Ployhar has confirmed that two its founding members, Microsoft and Nvidia, have left the non-profit organization.

According to Ployhar, speaking with BigDowload, the departures shouldn’t affect the PCGA as the organization is moving forward with plans to “assist game developers, publishers and hardware companies,” in making better PC titles.

“Another key thing we’ll be doing is creating a more technical based advisory board that you’ll all be hearing more about very soon,” said Ployhar. “We’re doing this to flesh out the PCGA’s technical expertise while simultaneously addressing perceived gaps in membership.”

Formed in 2008, the PCGA’s mission was to help with marketing PC games, provide marketing research, combat piracy, and to help firms develop business models outside of retail and to also: “help make certain that the PC game industry had a public voice and a pulpit for accurately communicating the size, growth and overall popularity of the single largest gaming platform worldwide.”

Ployhar could not comment on the reason Microsoft and Nvidia left the non-profit, stating he would prefer the companies communicated the reason instead.

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15 comments

#1

BULArmy
19/02/11, 5:06 pm

PCGA was and will be a joke of a organisation. It has not done a single good thing about PC gaming, except showing some stats with the PC revenues.

#2

Gekidami
19/02/11, 5:13 pm

^ And even those are stretched to look better then they really are…

#3

Maximum Payne
19/02/11, 5:18 pm

LOL big LOL.We didn’t heard one thing about them and they are going out :)

#4

Hunam
19/02/11, 5:27 pm

Slow claps for all.

We all knew this was a joke from the get go.

#5

DSB
19/02/11, 5:35 pm

You can’t burn out if you were never on fire.

#6

Heinekeno
19/02/11, 6:02 pm

If this alliance had Steam features they would ROX.

#7

Grimrita
19/02/11, 6:08 pm

Its only Microsoft – who with one hand say they still support PC gaming but with the other, pull the rug from under it.

With the likes of Steam benefiting smaller developers, who needs them?

#8

jacobvandy
19/02/11, 7:30 pm

It’s true the PCGA really hasn’t done anything, but symbolically, it looks bad for these two companies to be leaving. Especially considering they were founding members. Just more proof that Microsoft is a hypocritical ass when it comes to PC gaming, though I don’t know what the heck NVIDIA is thinking. Maybe they’d prefer to stick to their TWIMTBP program; Apparently, they already think that’s the only reason PC gaming hasn’t died…

#9

Bond James Bond
19/02/11, 8:05 pm

The PCGA has done absolutely fuck all for PC gaming since their conception. The fact is, they aren’t needed and never were as the platform is doing fine with or without them, MS and Nvidia knows this.

#10

OlderGamer
19/02/11, 9:30 pm

6

If the alliance had Steam they would worked.

Most anyone that knows anything about PC gaming would agree Steam ftw. You just don’t need anything else.

#11

blackdreamhunk
20/02/11, 2:20 am

we w=all knew that Microsoft was not big supporter of pc gaming

#12

blackdreamhunk
20/02/11, 4:18 am

pc gaming alliance is a real joke

#13

back_up
20/02/11, 8:40 am

meh
PC gaming is dead

#14

scuz
20/02/11, 10:00 pm

Anyone who claims PC gaming is dead clearly isn’t a PC gamer ergo can shut the fuck up. There are a million and one titles that herald the platform as nothing short of the forefront of video gaming as a medium.

#15

blackdreamhunk
21/02/11, 12:05 pm

@13

last time I checked there was more pc games than there is console games

http://www.pcgamingfan.com/

there is reason pc gaming is must beloved gaming platform in the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yncJ98ZRc&feature=related

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