Seriously, why are we still taking shit like this?
I mean as a consumer, not a "PC Gamer".
This is the lowest form of bullshit coming from a dev, and coming from one of the legends in gaming like Carmack, its an outright slap in the face.
As a consumer I expect a product to fulfill a certain set of expectations. A car is supposed to move me from A to B, if the car has no wheels or the wheels fall of at random intervals then the product is flawed.
In the age of NO RETURNS (Steam) this shit should have severe backlash. Yeah you didn't develop it -for- PC but you, well, released it on it so it better at least work in the most rudimentary sense.
Andy Chalk said:
id was actually "quite happy" with the state of the game on its test systems, but those were sporting drivers that had gone through "significant internal changes" to maximize performance. "We knew that all older AMD drivers, and some Nvidia drivers would have problems with the game, but we were running well in-house on all of our test systems," Carmack told Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5847761/why-was-the-pc-launch-of-rage-such-a-cluster]. "When launch day came around and the wrong driver got released, half of our PC customers got a product that basically didn't work. The fact that the working driver has incompatibilities with other titles doesn't help either. Issues with older/lower end/exotic setups are to be expected on a PC release, but we were not happy with the experience on what should be prime platforms."
In short, you didn't just not "develop the game for PC" you outright -IGNORED- the QA for it. By not beta-testing it on a regular machine but only "internal test systems" on drivers -not- available to the public with "significant internal changes".
Are you fucking serious?
This isnt the Borderlands shitty PC-port fiasko, this is gross negligence.
Its basically saying:
"Hey PC gamers are used to buggy releases anyways, lets release it on PC without QA, so we can get a few bucks more!"
Its insulting. Not because id didn't make a PC-exclusive, or because I'm a "PC Gamer" or "PC Elitist" but because they OBVIOUSLY treated part of their customers like disposable sales.
There is not caring about the PC, yeah fine, DoubleFine didn't release Trenched for PC, sadface, but its another thing to treat customers like disposable cash vending machines.
This coming from Carmack, which without the PC platform would not even have a job, is insulting and horribly arrogant.