Yes lets make the game exclusive on teh system with the lowest install base, and shooters dont sell well on it, but hey fuck it, lets make it for those 1% of hardcore players who can play it.

Yes lets make the game exclusive on teh system with the lowest install base, and shooters dont sell well on it, but hey fuck it, lets make it for those 1% of hardcore players who can play it.

AHHHH that shit boils my blood....... I'm  not mad at you dude, but you are so right and that sucks so much ass. Why must hardcore fps die out for these noob games. Why are gamers in no way willing to become hardcore. You know, no one is willing to step outside the box and it's the only way games will advance and move foward. God i wish people would try, just try to put some skill and thinking into the fps they play. Think about how far the genre would go if the skillful, meaning shooters became the norm. I don't hate call of duty but i'm starting to hate what it's doing.

Yeah it's hard and yeah it will take a lot of time but everyone had to do it. I didn't one day wake up and was just instantly good at battlefield, killzone, teamfortress,socom, etc. That shit took time....... A LOT of time. You know what, I think every should stop with the it's all about me, and start teaming up in game designed for hardcore teamwork, and if you can't get into a team which should be impossible, all you have to do is ask, "I'm new to this"...... that's all it takes, you will get many clan request with people just ginuwily willing to show you the ropes. I've seen it happen in many hardcore, said to be impossible games. And if you wanna go at it alone, then do that, but play the game, do what's asked, that will be harder but you will become a much better player....... I'm really starting to shed a tear for the genre I love the most.

If your a lonely noob, and feel intimidted when your playing skillful game , you get slaughtered, can't get into the controlls or atmosphere, stop right there, take deep breaths, before you go awol and start blaming everything eles, know that is is you not the game that's punishing you, you know what i take that back, it is the game trying to punish you, but it's for a reason little nooblet, it so you can actually improve and believe me it makes you a much better player. I wanna see MAG do really really well, it one of those games. Killzone as well............ and socom and warhawk.

maybe one day........ maybe.............. hopefully. I can still dream right?

Well, skilled players will win, no matter what the game (unless it's completely hacked).

The point is that - although a lot of people play because they want to get better / are good at it - an even bigger group of people play to have fun. If those people are deterred by your game because of certain things (be it controls or insane difficulty), then it cuts into the developer too. No money for the developer = no more new hardcore game either, so it's a bit of both worlds.

Demon's Souls won't sell gangbusters, but it does great for how difficult it is, but the cost of the game is probably lower than what Killzone 2 cost. If that game then goes on to be hardcore, then "high input cost... low outcome revenue"... not something you can sell to a publisher twice in a row...

So basically, it's "face the music". Hardcore people need mainstream people to keep their games alive :)