Intrinsic said:
All this says is that graphics alone will not sell your games. Thats just their problem. Till this day their games are still used as a way to benchmark PCs. And I keep saying it, the PC market is very very strange. You will have ppl scream master race and 4k or 120fps but they don't really buy games. Most of them just claim they do. In truth they mostly just pirate games (its too easy). Unless a company has a subscription based online game or game that thrives on a lot of in game purchases that can't be hacked, it will not sell well on PC. Thats just the truth. |
They sold on PC, Crytek just thought they could make a cash grab on console with a mediocre FPS, just like many many devs during last gen. The folks on PC who played Crysis 1, were pretty satisfied...yeah, the story was mediocre, but the open world and choice of doing things your way, were pretty awesome. And killing people with chickens +1.
Your assumptions about PC are pretty much irrelevant, no offense, but no one person here can speak for an entire group of people, and all it sounds like is parroting from an industry that's been obsessed with nickel and diming it's user base to death with closed networks. It has nothing to do with piracy. It has everything to do with them realizing they can give you unfinished games, and sell you the rest of it and increase their profit, and gamer's, generally are too disorganized to do anything about it.
And no, the truth about PC, at least among my circle of friends and I, is that once we understand a game has had parts axed from the PC version because it can't be done on console, we ignore it. Plain and simple. When it turns out that parity among all the platforms is of the highest importance to a dev, we go back to whatever game we were playing before. The great thing about PC is, we don't have to buy the new 'shiny' the industry wants to force feed us. I just go back to games like Stalker, which is still one of my favorite franchises of all time, and has a very, very loyal mod base that keeps bringing new cool stuff either content or texture/graphics updates. Like the Lost Alpha 'mod', which is actually a standalone game (even though I own all 3 games...legally)), built entirely on the 2004 Stalker build that GSC released to the public, in 2009. The mod community basically recreated through pictures and maps, every single map from the series, while adding whole new areas to explore complete with graphical/physics etc.. updates.
Now, you can claim to know the minds and intents of every PC Gamer out there, but that's quite obviously not the case (let me know when you get solid numbers on digital downloads, you'd be the first, in the world). Likewise with anyone else who tries to do the same, you don't know them, you don't know me, and you sure as hell don't know my purchasing practices. THAT's just the truth.
Btw, here's the location of the legal and free standalone Stalker - Lost Alpha 'mod'
http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha
