Useless? Their peripherals are some of the best I've ever used, especially their mice.saruman31 said:
As for this campaign though, I'm skeptical as to what they could possibly be announcing.
Weird Razer Ad Promises PC Gaming Is Not Dead
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As for this campaign though, I'm skeptical as to what they could possibly be announcing.
Ah, V for Vendetta.
"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine ? the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than 400 years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."
"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine ? the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than 400 years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."
They mean PC gaming isn't dead. Which means they're quite important to me.OutrageousEmu said:
The 4 million on Steam last night mean that much more.
I think it's a problem with the trend in the industry today. PC gaming is dying because PC gamers have different standards.
A console game can get away with semi-poor graphics, lack of options, mods etc. A shoddy PC port rarely catches momentum, but it earns the developers money by the massive console sales.
The publishers will probably use piracy as an excuse, maybe the smaller market, but in the end they are missing out on a potential market where the buyers have more disposable income (PCs cost potentially a lot more money).
It's plain sad, but then again I have had a lot of fun times playing consoles.
OT: Nice little marketing campaign, but their keyboards will NEVER beat my Das Keyboard!
A console game can get away with semi-poor graphics, lack of options, mods etc. A shoddy PC port rarely catches momentum, but it earns the developers money by the massive console sales.
The publishers will probably use piracy as an excuse, maybe the smaller market, but in the end they are missing out on a potential market where the buyers have more disposable income (PCs cost potentially a lot more money).
It's plain sad, but then again I have had a lot of fun times playing consoles.
OT: Nice little marketing campaign, but their keyboards will NEVER beat my Das Keyboard!
You remind me very much of a certain person who hates sex even though he's never tried it. You should see the rants he makes against it while the rest of us enjoy it.OutrageousEmu said:
But try the indie side of PC gaming one time. You know, like Bastion. Or Amnesia. Or Dwarf Fortress.
That's where PC gaming started, and it's never even got a cold.
Well stuff like the existence of mods, the numbers on Steam and Xfire, MMOs, vibrant communities in games that would have died years ago on consoles, a much larger indie community(Call of Cthulhu sold more in 1 week on Steam than in whole time it was on console indie market.).OutrageousEmu said:
You know what is funny handheld market is bigger than consoles so yes numbers aren't everything but there other indicators which you are ignoring. Yes there Farmville and stuff are "games" they are Social games that you play while you wait for people to message you on Facebook and I've never heard people let a child die due to Halo so that must mean those people are more "hardcore" than console gamers. Something a vocal of the community is so obsessed with.
Console gaming is much better in these regards? Kotick wanting to charge a sub for CoD, paying for online full stop, so many AAA games so little to no innovation. There is plenty of all of the opposite of that on PC just in other places there are always stagnant portions on every platform and genre.
Yes there are indie games but see my point on Call of Cthulhu and there are many other games like this. Given that there is a large number of console gamers out there a large proportion of them seem to not give a fuck about the indie market as fuck all people bought Call of Cthulhu comparatively speaking to PC sales.