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Boutros said:

The lack of support by companies on PC  is also due to piracy not only consoles.


That's false on many accounts. For instance, many games are having their console version leaked before PC versions. Then you are assuming that piracy means lost sales, which is also a false assumption, backed by now several unbiased parties. Laslty, I don't remember seeing many games that weren't blamed of suffering consolitis on the top downloads. Your closest bet is SC2 last year in the #5 spot, but you have to remember that most people view SC2 as more or less SC1.5, with a $60 price tag (PC gamers are furious about this too), and Bnet2.0 that was closer to B.net0.25.



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HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

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@squlliam  couldnt agree more, they spend all this money on super high end PCs and expect the companies to pump out eye blasting visual games, not realizing they are in the super minority. 

@vlad321  maybe, just maybe most console gamers dont give a crap about mods. if they did they would game on PCs. 



oniyide said:

@squlliam  couldnt agree more, they spend all this money on super high end PCs and expect the companies to pump out eye blasting visual games, not realizing they are in the super minority. 

@vlad321  maybe, just maybe most console gamers dont give a crap about mods. if they did they would game on PCs. 


So you are telling me consumers DON'T want free content that prolongs their enjoyment of the product they paid money for? I think that falls under the realm of stupidity.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

vlad321 said:
oniyide said:

@squlliam  couldnt agree more, they spend all this money on super high end PCs and expect the companies to pump out eye blasting visual games, not realizing they are in the super minority. 

@vlad321  maybe, just maybe most console gamers dont give a crap about mods. if they did they would game on PCs. 


So you are telling me consumers DON'T want free content that prolongs their enjoyment of the product they paid money for? I think that falls under the realm of stupidity.

I think the problem might be, no one thinks it is possible on the console, without them putting in simplified editors that really don't do much...plus space restrictions caused by the 360. 

Personally I think one thing that is really annoying, and I totally agree with, is dumb downed stuff, this is something that wasn't really existance in past generations on consoles (much), but for some reason this generation is all about making everything so goddamnit simple. 



 

Squilliam said:

One way PC gamers are making themselves angry for no reason:

1. Buying expensive PC hardware and then expecting that developers would have the money and time to dedicate to targeting a fraction of a proportion of the overall PC games marketable install base in order to release visually impressive games outside of the run of the mill 'throw more tech at it until the frame-rate tanks mantra of more AA/AF and various basic light/shadow technologies' which don't take much manpower to implement. At the present time games have been limited more by art work than raw performance and all platforms have benefited from the increased efficiency attained recently at eeking out better looking games without relying solely on the advance of hardware technology.

There are that kind of fools for sure, but I think most PC gamers are angry because of bad ports and dumbing down games so 'more casual' console gamers will buy the games more easily.



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@vlad  acevil pretty much gave you my answer and besides from what ive seen mods are mostly huge on the FPSs, which i really dont care too much about anyway. 



oniyide said:

@vlad  acevil pretty much gave you my answer and besides from what ive seen mods are mostly huge on the FPSs, which i really dont care too much about anyway. 


I don't see what he said that supports your argument in the least bit. Furthermore, you obviously don't know jack shit about mods and should stop talking about them before you make an even bigger fool of yourself. I know you know jack shit because you jsut implied that they pertain mostly on FPSes....



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

One word: piracy.



@vlad what other genres do you use mods for besides FPS??? RTSs??? MMOs??? just cause you feel that PC owners are getting screwed dont take it out on me, put that rage somewhere else



vlad321 said:
oniyide said:

@squlliam  couldnt agree more, they spend all this money on super high end PCs and expect the companies to pump out eye blasting visual games, not realizing they are in the super minority. 

@vlad321  maybe, just maybe most console gamers dont give a crap about mods. if they did they would game on PCs. 


So you are telling me consumers DON'T want free content that prolongs their enjoyment of the product they paid money for? I think that falls under the realm of stupidity.


well the number 1 source of trojan for wow players are the mod sites so maybe customers do not necessary want to install software developed by unknown people that may damage their experience..

 

that does not mean Wow players won't use them but due to this you have to have extra security ( which is why these days the Blizzard RSA key is pretty much needed in any high end guild).



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !