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dahuman on 06 July 2009
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crumas2 said:
forevercloud3000 said:

Not really.

I could say I support gaming companies like Bioware, Blizzard, etc that make opposing exclusive games for other consoles I don't own. Its just that I dont own any of their games(cuz i dont use or have the systems). Yet the point is I can respect their work ethic. I don't hear THOSE companies complaining about consoles being too hard to develop for yatta yatta. I much rather they skip the excuses. If you dont want to make a game on a particular console, fine, just say so. Don't constantly be trying to make it seem like somethings wrong with that console tho when its really your programmers are elementary level at best for gaming.

To me it seems like they just want to do whatever uses the least amount of effort, a quality not becoming of a good game developer. They make millions of dollars every title yet they refuse to get more staff members? They just dont want to grow for some reason.

And I have never been interested in a Valve game other then Team Fortress. They just don't appeal to me as developers that way. I know plenty of other PS3 owners do/or at least did find their games interesting though.

Regarding your respect for Blizzard... they tend to publicly scoff at the idea of ever porting their software to consoles, with clear distain that comes across as consoles being toys incapable of properly handling what a PC can handle.  Personally, I disagree with them, but I'm not going to call them poor quality developers because of it... they've made their platform choices, and I can respect that.

You should send an email to them and ask when their going to port Starcraft, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo, etc. to consoles.  You will probably get a polite reply stating that they have no current plans to address those platforms, but if you get a chance to talk to someone at Blizzard (I happen to know someone who works there) and they really open up, you will probably hear a lot of laughter at the suggestion.  I don't take it personally... it's just a difference of opinion.

They make games that require a lot of actions and keys, a game pad isn't enough, aka they make more complex games suited for PC, console games are usually a lot more dumped down, and lately PC games are suffering in depth and tech advantages because of the multi-plat too. I'm glad they are sticking to PC only so they don't get held back on those aspects, hmmmm, sounds awful a lot like the HD consoles vs Wii situation all of a sudden, only the Wii has the controls to win more people over apparently .