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disolitude on 27 January 2009

Man...soon Microsoft is going to fire me. And I don't even work for them...



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vlad321 on 27 January 2009

Good.



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

 

epsilon72 on 27 January 2009
chaospluto said:
I'm not too surprised, mainly because they were talking about laying off a Big Wig.

I just wish they could have done more with it. Like L4D 360+PC users, that would have been awesome imo.

Oh hell no.

1)I definitely don't want to be playing with the kind of crowd that xbox live has.

2)That would mean using GFWL instead of steam for the game.  What PC gamer in their right mind would pick GFWL over steam?

As for windows vs. linux games/applications performance, it really depends on how the developers wrote the thing but in general my experience has been that a well written app will run slightly better in linux than in windows...

 



JaggedSac on 27 January 2009

Maybe GFW will now roll over and die.



Grampy on 27 January 2009
chaospluto said:
Deneidez said:
Well to be honest, I really didn't like the whole idea. Even 'games for windows' is something that should die.

Oh, how much I agree with this.

Games should be for all systems, Windows is becoming over-rated, it's sickening.  Linux and Mac need some love, seriously.

I know Linux isn't highly used outside of servers and for and everyday joe, but I can tell you this: A game that is based off the Linux system will run a HELL of a lot smoother than on any Windows PC anyday.  (No, I'm not talking about how Linux has to run games now, because honestly it sucks.  I mean if a Dev actually Developed a game for Linux OS.)

I know how a lot of gamers hate Macs, but seriously, they need some love.

It's not going to happen except for those that can adapt Windows based games. It's just a matter of numbers and nothing else makes sense for a developer.

I'm a webmaster for part of a major university website so I monitor web traffic monthly. A majority of our traffic is from other university and academic centers both of which tend to have a greater representation of both Linux and Mac than the general population (more geeks).

Each month we had between 15-18M hits from 160-220K distinct visitors who download 335-450GB of material. This is a pretty damn good statistical sample and tends to have fairly minor changes month to month.

 

December 2008

December 2007

Highest  (2007)

Lowest (2007)

Windows

90.6%

91.3%

93.5%

89.8

Mac

4.3%

4.1%

4.8%

2.8%

Linux

0.4%

0.4%

0.5%

0.2%

 

 


This may not be the figures that you and I want, and they may not be the figures that the very vocal supporters of Macs and Linux would have you believe; but they are a fact and game developers can hardly be expected to ignore them.



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Mudface on 27 January 2009

GFWL in full effect.



vlad321 on 27 January 2009

You guys remember the day when they actually expected us to pay for that?



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

 

epsilon72 on 27 January 2009
vlad321 said:
You guys remember the day when they actually expected us to pay for that?

but..but..it worked for xbox live!

I wonder what idiot manager made that decision...

 



vlad321 on 27 January 2009
epsilon72 said:
vlad321 said:
You guys remember the day when they actually expected us to pay for that?

but..but..it worked for xbox live!

I wonder what idiot manager made that decision...

 

 

What made it worse is that i was post like.... 1985.... I was honestly offended when I launched Halo 2 and couldn't play online because I had to pay. A quick trip to the store to get my money back and a few searches got me the game for free with a nice crack so i could play MP for free. GG MS.



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

 

salaminizer on 27 January 2009
vlad321 said:
epsilon72 said:
vlad321 said:
You guys remember the day when they actually expected us to pay for that?

but..but..it worked for xbox live!

I wonder what idiot manager made that decision...

 

 

What made it worse is that i was post like.... 1985.... I was honestly offended when I launched Halo 2 and couldn't play online because I had to pay. A quick trip to the store to get my money back and a few searches got me the game for free with a nice crack so i could play MP for free. GG MS.

guess what I'm gonna do with a certain DLC lol

 



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