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Acevil on 19 October 2009
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Xelloss said:
Acevil said:

Honestly speaking, Activision will look at the petition and start laughing. They know people will continue to buy the product they offer.

Now I know some people are and will be discouraged from buying the product but that's where the new $10 higher price comes in.

PC gamers can not dream of shunning activision blizzard, they own the market and will continue to own it. As long as Call of Duty franchise world of warcraft and starcraft exist.

Negative, sir.

 

 You have to understand, that this is not the case for the CoD or FPS PC gaming community. Not having a dedicated server equate not having a reason to play, at least on PC. It is true that they will still sell millions to 360 and ps3 owners and do not need the PC gamers, and that is fine. It is their choice, to tell PC gamers to basically screw off. But among PC gamers, this is not going to lose some business, it will lose most business.

 Its easy for someone who isnt a PC FPS gamer to write this off, but I honestly doubt a double-digit percentage of the folk who bought CoD 4 on PC , bought it for the single player.

 Luckily Activision doesnt own the market, thankfully there are plenty of AAA FPS titles available on PC. EADICE has already confirmed continuing dedicated server support for example. FPS players who need a new game will either take another look at WaW or chill until the next BF game.

 

I still expect a large audience will buy this game for the PC, yes it will be obviously lower, but do you honestly expect this to not appear on the top 10 list of that mouth and even possibly that year? Most PC gamers are not like yourself and shio, they can be as casual as the consoles owners and they will still eat shit up. 

Other issues in the past like DRM did not stop products from reaching decent sales, and honestly speaking this will blow over.

Also I was talking about acitivision blizzard owning the market. They still have a huge percentage of revenue in the PC market. I know better games exist for the PC, hell one could argue that Counter Strike and Team Fortress are the best FPS multiplayer games out there. Aion is a better MMO than World of Warcraft. Age of Empire and the original Command and Conquer series better than Starcraft (IMO).

Activision-Blizzard is heartless as it comes now, and the sad part is I think nothing can stop them. In the end they are one of the companies that are really sucessful similar to the old asshole EA. New EA is awesome, but they don't seem to be sucessful as they were before. 

Also Shio I am starting to get into western RPGs and that market has always been PC, PM a recommandation list if possible. I know we don't see eye to eye always, but I would really love it if I have a good starting list.