Kinect Man Says "Hardly Anyone" Plays PC Shooters Anymore
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Words cannot express how angry I am at this guy for not only making the unfounded and just flat-out wrong accusation that no-one plays PC shooters anymore and that Halo of all goddamn things made it about the console.
Halo never accomplished such a thing. Don't credit things that didn't happen to a game that's not capable of making it happen.
Halo never accomplished such a thing. Don't credit things that didn't happen to a game that's not capable of making it happen.
I love this guy's reasoning that since Halo came out, the PC has never, ever, ever seen another FPS, despite the fact that Halo came out on the PC.
While there still are a lot of people who play FPSes on PC, the vast majority of people who play shooters play them on consoles. MW2 alone sold 30 million copies, none of which can be played on the PC. Many people forget how large XBL is.
Whoa! Dude! Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat Source, Counterstrike Source, Unreal Tournament 3, Battlefield 2/1943/Bad Company/Bad Company 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare/2, and Left for Dead/2 all have enormous PC player bases that number in the tens of thousands.
Same here. I always just called it the 2001 Theme.TestECull said:
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Damn, this makes me want to punch a baby kitten Kudo Tsunoda.
Yeah, I bet that'd feel real good...
Yeah, I bet that'd feel real good...
A corporate executive/representative comes out and spouts some BS such to manipulate the mindspace of the consumer in a manner to increase sells of a particular product produced by that corporation, or, at the very least, to cast doubt on the viability of a competing product as sufficiently serving the consumer's needs and/or desires.
In other news, the sun rose this morning, and the mid-day sky is a wonderful azure during extremely fair weather conditions.
I'm not sure why so many people allow themselves to continuously get baited into mindless nerd-rage and religious warring over such statements; after all, that's precisely what the corporation wants, to get you all talking and fighting about the whole thing while they sit back and collect profit. At the very least, it throws an element of FUD(fear, uncertainty, and doubt, for those not familiar with the term) into the mix such to weaken the position of future sales of competing products. The effect is strongest on those new to video games. Of course, the strategy is fairly hit-or-miss in terms of successfulness, as it can back-fire horribly, but corporations have put much faith in such tactics to bolster their business because they see Microsoft as the prime example of how the technique can work (Microsoft has spent several decades perfecting their technique in this particular tactic).
In other news, the sun rose this morning, and the mid-day sky is a wonderful azure during extremely fair weather conditions.
I'm not sure why so many people allow themselves to continuously get baited into mindless nerd-rage and religious warring over such statements; after all, that's precisely what the corporation wants, to get you all talking and fighting about the whole thing while they sit back and collect profit. At the very least, it throws an element of FUD(fear, uncertainty, and doubt, for those not familiar with the term) into the mix such to weaken the position of future sales of competing products. The effect is strongest on those new to video games. Of course, the strategy is fairly hit-or-miss in terms of successfulness, as it can back-fire horribly, but corporations have put much faith in such tactics to bolster their business because they see Microsoft as the prime example of how the technique can work (Microsoft has spent several decades perfecting their technique in this particular tactic).
Have to wholeheartedly agree with this guy. Straight and simple, this guy doesn't know his stuff.Kiefer13 said:
I play both Xbox and PC first person shooters, both for different reasons. Xbox for convenience (and a few real life friends play it) and PC because its much easier to get a good ping and find people who aren't 13. Sure less people play PC in general but the price tag and general computer skills you need to be able to make a computer worth having over a console is sometimes just not worth it for most people, chuck in a disk and play is always the nice touch to have a console.
Although Oblivion never worked on my crappy 4 year old 360, no matter how many copies I tried.
Although Oblivion never worked on my crappy 4 year old 360, no matter how many copies I tried.
Hmm it's too bad the stats aren't game by game. I am not trying to defend the guy, but I am wondering if he's saying like 500,000 are playing the newest Halo (which I have never played) and compared to what are being played on PC etc. etc. Without the numbers (which Kinect Man neglected to provide) it's hard for me to see where he's coming from.Mr.Gompers said:
*Facepalm*
We have-
Almost all of the CoD games are still being played multiplayer.
The Halo series
TF2
TFC
L4D 1+2
Counter Strike-Source
Counter Strike 1.6
Half Life 2
eathmatch
Half Lifeeathmatch
And countless others.
This has god to be the stupidest thing i have ever heard of.
But,i'm not suprised.
'Kinect Man Says "Hardly Anyone" Plays PC Shooters Anymore'
'Kinect Man'
'Kinect'
Yeah,you know,Kinect,the shitty Wii motion control ripoff (1/2)?
Exactly.
We have-
Almost all of the CoD games are still being played multiplayer.
The Halo series
TF2
TFC
L4D 1+2
Counter Strike-Source
Counter Strike 1.6
Half Life 2
eathmatchHalf Life
eathmatchAnd countless others.
This has god to be the stupidest thing i have ever heard of.
But,i'm not suprised.
'Kinect Man Says "Hardly Anyone" Plays PC Shooters Anymore'
'Kinect Man'
'Kinect'
Yeah,you know,Kinect,the shitty Wii motion control ripoff (1/2)?
Exactly.
That's the same type of claim Kinect Man made. Nicely played!Persi said:
I stopped playing PC Games in University when I couldn't afford to keep upgrading the hardware. Could barely afford food most weeks. Suffice it to say I haven't played any PC FPS's since the birth of Escapist.