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| Just don't make PC Games
It's a pretty simple solution for some game companies. Don't make games for PC. I think it is stupid to drag your customers in court. But who said these companies were smart anyway?
But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles.
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| said by kfsutops  :It's a pretty simple solution for some game companies. Don't make games for PC. I think it is stupid to drag your customers in court. But who said these companies were smart anyway? But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles. That's cause you can download them. |
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Xizer
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said by kfsutops :It's a pretty simple solution for some game companies. Don't make games for PC. I think it is stupid to drag your customers in court. But who said these companies were smart anyway? But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles. Hey look another PC gaming is dead noob. 
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: the PC gaming market has actually grown in recent years.
It's also a piece of cake to pirate games that are on consoles.  I know, I know. I just blew your little mind. |
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said by kfsutops :But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles. www.steampowered.com
Yeah, sure, PC gaming is dead... 
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said by Xizer :I'm going to let you in on a little secret: the PC gaming market has actually grown in recent years. It's also a piece of cake to pirate games that are on consoles. I know, I know. I just blew your little mind. It's dead. Get over it.
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said by kfsutops :It's a pretty simple solution for some game companies. Don't make games for PC. I think it is stupid to drag your customers in court. But who said these companies were smart anyway? But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles. Various game setups work better on PC... some things just make more sense with a keyboard and mouse. RTS's, for one. Some game designs do not work very well on a console, and I, for one, prefer the PC for a lot of games. (Though, some are made for the console, and don't translate well to the PC without the use of a gamepad). |
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said by kfsutops :said by Xizer :I'm going to let you in on a little secret: the PC gaming market has actually grown in recent years. It's also a piece of cake to pirate games that are on consoles. I know, I know. I just blew your little mind. It's dead. Get over it. AHH PC GAMING IS DEAD AHH PC GAMING IS DEAD AHH
»www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin···ses.html
wait a minute what's this hundreds of upcoming game releases for the pc, that can't be right! |
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said by Necronomikro :said by kfsutops :It's a pretty simple solution for some game companies. Don't make games for PC. I think it is stupid to drag your customers in court. But who said these companies were smart anyway? But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles. Various game setups work better on PC... some things just make more sense with a keyboard and mouse. RTS's, for one. Some game designs do not work very well on a console, and I, for one, prefer the PC for a lot of games. (Though, some are made for the console, and don't translate well to the PC without the use of a gamepad). The whole "consoles are better than PCs" argument is beyond retarded.
All consoles are are stripped down, proprietary PCs that get released every five years.
They're not some magical device - any PC can achieve what a console can. You can easily hook up a desktop computer to a TV and an Xbox 360 controller to the PC and ooooh look, console! |
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As others have mentioned it's easy to download games for consoles. I know 5 people that have new consoles. One of them doesn't download games for his console (he's only 8,) so new games come from his relatives. Another has a daughter that works in the gaming industry so they get all of the consoles and many of the new games that come out. The other three have multiple consoles, buy some of the games, but download most of the games from the Internet.
I know the console makers do there best to try and stop people from copying games, but it's gotten pretty easy for someone to mod a console and then download whatever game they want.
So I don't see going to a console release only being a savings over releasing games on the PC. It seems that games are just as easily ripped off for consoles as for PCs. |
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jinjimbob
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Not really, its because they're just not very well made, sooo many bugs . . . as its for the pc, always can can an update, so very little effort put into getting it right the first time. |
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The PC gaming market is not getting smaller. Now with video cards (the nVidia GeForce GTX 280) being released and people seeing what a PC can do, more people I know are MOVING from consoles to PCs. Mainly because I showed them all of their favorite games running on the PC version, and the fact that it loads faster and online is mainly free.
So PC gaming market is BIGGER |
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consoles being networked nowdays, console games are starting to head down that "we'll just patch it" route too.
back when games where on ROMs and up to the PS2 it had to be right the first time on a console
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Actually PC gaming continues to grow, and surpasses Console gaming by a large margin.
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said by Xizer :said by Necronomikro :said by kfsutops :It's a pretty simple solution for some game companies. Don't make games for PC. I think it is stupid to drag your customers in court. But who said these companies were smart anyway? But really, the PC gaming market is getting smaller and smaller everyday. Don't believe go in to a game store and see how many PC games are on the shelves versus the games for consoles. Various game setups work better on PC... some things just make more sense with a keyboard and mouse. RTS's, for one. Some game designs do not work very well on a console, and I, for one, prefer the PC for a lot of games. (Though, some are made for the console, and don't translate well to the PC without the use of a gamepad). The whole "consoles are better than PCs" argument is beyond retarded. All consoles are are stripped down, proprietary PCs that get released every five years. They're not some magical device - any PC can achieve what a console can. You can easily hook up a desktop computer to a TV and an Xbox 360 controller to the PC and ooooh look, console! Personally,
Whether the pc gaming market is getting smaller or not, I think is is a TOTAL waste of a computer, if that's what you use it for. Not only do most games screw up the computer, which works for me as I get to fix a lot of them (cha-ching!), but, as I already said, it's stupid!!
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| said by cork1958 :Personally, Whether the pc gaming market is getting smaller or not, I think is is a TOTAL waste of a computer, if that's what you use it for. Not only do most games screw up the computer, which works for me as I get to fix a lot of them (cha-ching!), but, as I already said, it's stupid!! I don't see what's so stupid about running a program on a piece of hardware you already own instead of buying a proprietary piece of hardware (a game console) just to run that same program.
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said by cork1958 :Not only do most games screw up the computer, which works for me as I get to fix a lot of them (cha-ching!), but, as I already said, it's stupid!! If you're fixing people's computers because games screw them up, then the people you're helping are absolute, complete idiots. After about 15 years of playing computer games, I have yet to have a game screw up my computer. There are only 2 things which have screwed up my computer - porn malware, and questionable software downloads.
When I was a computer technician, I do remember a lot of people saying that "i put a game on my computer now it doesn't work", and that it was simply code for "I downloaded like, a TON of porn last night, and I clicked on amazing_sex.exe and the only thing that got screwed was my computer!"
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That growth is for "online" pc gaming. My argument is that buying games on a disc is dead.
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said by tiger72 :After about 15 years of playing computer games, I have yet to have a game screw up my computer. Have you played Anarchy Online? It r-e-a-l-l-y lives up to it's name what it can do to a computer.
Then play Silent Hunter 4, and play alpha ware posing as a gold release...and watch the crashes if you're lucky, BSODs if you're not.
The AAA games shouldn't cause problem installs, but there are a few games that by definition could be considered malware in itself.
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| said by ChrisXP :said by tiger72 :After about 15 years of playing computer games, I have yet to have a game screw up my computer. Have you played Anarchy Online? It r-e-a-l-l-y lives up to it's name what it can do to a computer. Then play Silent Hunter 4, and play alpha ware posing as a gold release...and watch the crashes if you're lucky, BSODs if you're not. The AAA games shouldn't cause problem installs, but there are a few games that by definition could be considered malware in itself. ... while you're playing. And yeah, I had friends who played AO's buggy gameplay. That said, none of that "screws up" the whole computer. It merely is buggy coding that destroys gameplay.
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| said by tiger72 :... while you're playing. And yeah, I had friends who played AO's buggy gameplay. That said, none of that "screws up" the whole computer. It merely is buggy coding that destroys gameplay. That game can mess up the OS. It was so buggy on install, that instead of installing in it's own folder like 99.9999999999% of the games, it decided C:\Windows was it's directory.
Have to wipe the entire drive to remove it's traces.
No game since 1983 have I had was so buggy that had done that, not even SH4 (and that game is buggier than AO -- at least it can load. SH4 could crash on load even after 5 patches).
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