Epic Shifting Focus Back to PC!?!?

[GestaltEsper]

It is amazing to me how up in arms people get over their chosen platform. I'm a PC gamer but I just like good games all around which is why I've got consoles as well. So what Epic left PC for awhile? Who fucking cares? There are tons of really great games out there. Instead of complaining about one single developer try playing good games instead.

This loyalty thing I'll never get. I'm not loyal to developers, I'm loyal to the medium. Some developers are better than others at tickling my particular game fetish but I wouldn't be furious if they stopped...I'd just go play another great game.

That concept always amused me, mainly because it's a prime example of the rampant hypocrisy among gamers. So if I understand this right, if a company does everything short of sucking you off, you'll spend $60 on they're game, but you won't buy everyone of their games because that makes you a sheep, and you won't stop buying from other companies or for other consoles or PC but if they develop for another console or market then it's well...

BETRAAAAAAYAL!!!!!!

 

[DementedSheep]

Developer claims their going to start shifting focus back to the PC and PC gamers are angry? Shouldn't we be happy about this?

 

[Continuity]

And I'm kinda missing his point here. Consoles aren't making the right returns so he's going to move to an even smaller market?

Yeah you're missing the point, its not about changing markets so much as changing strategy i.e. making lower budget games rather than blockbusters, and then retailiing them though outlets like steam etc...

The reason the industry became so blockbuster focued in the first place is bacause smaller titles didn't reach the audience... there was a limited shelf life and your game needed the advertising, hype, media coverage etc that comes with a blockbuster release or it would sell poorly and slide into oblivion after a few months.
However now with platforms like Steam even tiny budget games can reach a very large audience and have an indefinate shelf life, hence the surge in the smaller indie productions side of the industry.

All Epic are saying here is that it is now viable to make smaller budget games and that that is a logical choice for them going forward given the live or die state that the AAA market has worked itself into.

 

[Baneat]

Come back! We still love you!

 

[thepyrethatburns]

As an Unreal/Unreal Tournament player, I should be angry. But, oddly, I really didn't. They decided to go make money on consoles. I didn't feel any sort of betrayal.

On the other hand, this is just talk. Even if it isn't, the Unreal Community has largely died off so that may be another reason to focus on smaller games. If they are focusing on smaller games, should we really care? I liked some of the XBLA stuff but, for the most part, that isn't something that I'm really going to get hyped up about.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Well I'm not a vengeful arrogant little bugger so if Epic make a good game I'll buy it. If they don't I won't. I'd like to see a true return to the Unreal series on PC, I fondly remember those days of online shooting being about frantic quad jumping shootouts and low gravity sniper battles, those days faded away and replaced with clunky moving chest high wall with magnets built in cover and people who heal faster than the T-1000.