Sylveria said:
Baradiel said:
I actually appreciate someone being clear and honest. People wonder why companies, politicians and other entities in the public view lie and obscure the facts. Its because people don't like hearing something they disagree with.
I don't think he's a jerk. He makes a valid point for why PC gamers would ***** (and as evidenced by these comments, they are).
Note: I'm both a console and a PC gamer. I just don't have a stick up my ass about being 'offended'.
It isn't what you say, it is how you say it. Ubisoft saying "Stop your bitching and buy the console version," is not how to address this issue. Man, only a total scumbag jerkass would think that's a fine way to talk to your customer-base and any gamer on any system who condones that behavior would be a bigger scumbag jerkass and a total douche with no clue of what is acceptable behavior in a civilized society.
Hmm, do I detect a thinly veiled insult aimed at me? Surely not aimed from a ridiculously high horse too?
And the issue being? That some PC gamers have come to expect, nay,
demand that their platform is always catered for? If that is the issue, then those PC gamers
need to be told to stop their bitching. If PS3 users complained that they weren't getting Gears of War 3, they'd be told to shut up and look at their own exclusives. Why shouldn't the same reaction be given to pretentious, over-demanding PC gamers?
Fuck his argument about piracy, I don't care about that. Developers and publishers always exaggerate the facts in that regard. And I hate Ubisoft's DRM too, which I accept is a terrible, brutal restriction that does more harm than good.
But the fact that most of the comments on this story are, for want of a better internet term, butthurt over being called out on bitching, is pathetic and not "acceptable behaviour in a civilised society" as you so idealistically put it.