Swifty714 said:
Vegosiux said:
Swifty714 said:
Let's not turn this into a console "nation" versus PC "nation" debate. Some people are stuck with PC's for one reason or the other. Telling them "Har har consoles" isn't exactly contributing to a solution. It's a "Then let them eat cake" thing, and we know what happened to Marie Antoinette...
I wasn't being 100% serious with that comment.
However, a lot of PC gamer's constantly hold Steam over console gamer's heads and act as if they are some kind of supreme gaming race.
It's just nice to hear that sometimes, PC gamers are having a bit of trouble.
And on both sides, it's typically less the fault of the platform and more the fault of the trained monkeys - I mean
publishers - who saddle games with idiotic "solutions" to problems the average user did not cause and does not care about.
Take this situation, for instance: EA is attempting to wrest control of the market away from Steam, and in doing so is breaking up our games libraries, forcing the installation of more pointless, ethically questionable storefronts, and keeping their precious games away from the
horrible specter of Steam sales. (Price control, in other words. They can keep selling it at $60 as long as they want) They are seeking a material advantage, and it's coming out of our pockets, our ease of use, and our satisfaction.
Likewise with Ubisoft's DRM - it's a straightforward case of "We don't want people pirating it, so we'll be blanketing it with rules and policies that may (and probably will) impact your ability to play it at times. Oh, and good luck trying to resell it - buy our games and you're out the full chalupa. No refunds." (Six months later: Waaaa, people pirated our games anyway, so our horrible solutions had no effect whatsoever!)
And finally, we have Project $10 and similar on consoles. Buy a game new? No problem - just don't expect to get nearly as much in trade at GameStop as you used to. Buy a game used? Don't expect more than $10 off the retail price, which you'll be paying back anyway through the multiplayer pass, making it a slightly-grubby $60 purchase anyway. Want to transfer your license to a new console? Maybe they'll let you, maybe not. You might have to shell more money out of your pockets to keep playing your games on new systems! Oh, and there's a chance your online codes won't even work. Yeah... sorry 'bout that. Buy another one.
In short: Everyone's in on the same game, and the name of that game is "milk the customer." They will get as close as possible to making you revolt, no matter what platform you're on, as long as they can get more money in the end. And I hate to say this, but the only entity who's actually providing value along with their jabs is, in fact, Steam. Know this and weep.
