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Modern Warfare 2
Chesire Cat:
When it comes to music and movies and generally media available with no cross platform issues. Games on the other hand pretty much have to be purchased... except on PC, combined with the relative high cost of maintaining a gaming PC and the trials of making a game compatible with a myriad of hardware spec make it much more unprofitable.
You can deny that. But I would argue statically declining PC gaming market and the fact that cross platform games ALWAYS have console versions outsell PC versions by vast margins (excluding console games retroactively produced from PC games such as Decent, Doom, Starcraft etc)
Ozymandias:
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to try to deny because I don't understand your point.
Chesire Cat:
Ok, lets look at it this way. The vast majority of major releases or for consoles, some of them bless us with a PC version as well. Very very few are PC only. And even then, after all the hype generated, how many of them actually make a major splash?
Why should developers continue catering to this shrinking minority? I appreciate the smaller releases for PC games, games like Braid. But the big budget big deal games arent coming as fast as they used to.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat on 21 Oct 2009, 11:48 ---except on PC
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Which is why you could never find an xbox or PS game on a torrent site, that just never happens.
--- Quote ---Also, pirated copies will probably end up utilizing dedicated servers to play on which I mean...holy shit does that break the entire concept of this decision.
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...I hadn't thought of that. The only way for over 100,000 people to get the game they want is to pirate it, no matter how much money they have, they can't buy the game that they want. I expect I'll probably just play the singleplayer campaign on a friend's Xbox or PS3, PC if I am really lucky, then I'll go back to CoD4 for the multiplayer. Unless they manage to either make a dedicated-server-free method work well (snowballs and hell come to mind) or people start idling in servers and outputting the server IP once in a while to make impromptu dedicated servers.
Chesire Cat:
Thing is, to crack a console you have to give up XBox Live forever. Which to me, is not an option, well assuming I had a console.
--- Quote ---Unless they manage to either make a dedicated-server-free method work well (snowballs and hell come to mind) or people start idling in servers and outputting the server IP once in a while to make impromptu dedicated servers.
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That is the most major concern of mine regarding this decision. Waiting in lobbies for a game to queue means microwaving a Pizza Pop, and you sure as heck cant play CoD while eating a Pizza Pop unless you are Goro or otherwise have 4 arms.
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