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- zdiddy85, on 06/29/2008, -10/+667I love how at one corner of the room, you have Valve/Steam embracing the pc AND the online community(which is key), while Crytek sits and cries in the other end, blaming piracy for low game sales.
Did you every play Crysis online? It was garbage and had no support. On the other hand, TF2 is frequently updated and tweaked (for free).
Valve, I less than three you. - evilesttoast, on 06/30/2008, -2/+268I have never pirated anything from Valve because everything they make is worth every dollar, like Orange Box.
- blorc, on 06/30/2008, -12/+272Crytek.
What a fitting name for a company that cries so much about the ***** sales for their ***** game. - Koush, on 06/29/2008, -5/+176Play Crysis online? ha, your right. I thought i'd give it a try (Legit copy), I got to the moment where i had to register for gamespy, at that point it threw the game so far away i'm prety sure I hit a cat.
I plan on buying Left 4 Dead just because Value are developing it, that's pretty much it, i'm not even intrested in it but if it supports Value who actually like the game community it's like, Please, have my money!.
At least they try something new everynow and then. - latova, on 06/29/2008, -5/+159I think all the whining from developers making crappy games is what made valve come out and support the PC platform. Usually developers are pretty professional about these sorts of things, but lately whenever a game does poorly, it seems the only thing they do is instead of listening to their fans about the problems with the game, they instead BLAME the fans for poor sales and act like their game was perfect. From all of the bitching Crytek is making I'm guessing it was a game not worth even pirating anyway.
- swatward, on 06/30/2008, -6/+147I used to think steam would suck, it doesn't. They did it very well.
- estvir, on 06/30/2008, -0/+141It baffles me that companies are still using GameSpy.
- Grommy, on 06/29/2008, -7/+146This was a good article. I'm glad no one took the "end of PC gaming" business seriously. Support from companies like Blizzard and Valve is the reason PC gaming will never die.
- Varz, on 06/30/2008, -22/+152Saying "PC gaming is dead" is just a pathetic attempt by console fanboys to justify their purchase.
You've really got to love Valve after all they've done for PC gaming, they're one of the few companies that release consistently good games and are pushing the PC gaming market to new heights, oh and they don't just abandon their fanbase (like Epic did). Valve deserves absolutely all of the praise they get. - tidefan94, on 06/29/2008, -3/+107Valves guys are truly pushing the industry forward. I stopped playing TF2 until just recently when they started redoing the classes. If other titles would do anything similar to that they would make a lot more money.
- seiha, on 06/30/2008, -3/+83I love steam & valve.
It's the people who haven't installed steam since 2002 who say ignorant things like, "I'm not installing that crap on my computer", when infact it's the total opposite of that. It's really come a long away since then. - jarjarwang, on 06/30/2008, -3/+78I bought AudioSurf on Steam. I read about it online and was already at my pc. a couple of minutes later and I was playing the game. Steam is good for impulse buys.
- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+66not to mention its very easy to buy stuff from valve via steam. ***** driving 10 min to a store to buy it and drive back, and then run the whole install process from the dvds.
- seraph582, on 06/30/2008, -4/+66Controlling CoD4 with two analogues and viewing it rendered in ***** low quality textures and sub-720p quality makes me want to vomit. Wanna know why the console players don't compete alongside the PC players? The PC has a higher framerate and a tried and true control system that lets it run circles around the ***** console implementation of the game.
Oh, and TF2 is vastly superior multiplayer than CoD4. Halo3 is a ***** joke. - igob8a, on 06/30/2008, -4/+65I pirated the games in the Orange Box, but damn they were so good I ended up buying them. I wanted to play TF2 on non-cracked servers and the new weapons and achievements didn't work in the cracked versions.
On the other hand, I wouldn't play Crysis online even if Crytek paid me. CryMoar Crytek. - solid12345, on 06/30/2008, -25/+80Sorry Gabe, I think those late-night hours of cheetos and mountain dew are getting to your brain.
PC gaming is neither the future or a failure. It is its own segment that should not even be compared to consoles. PC games cannot replicate the lifestyle of sitting on a couch with a controller playing madden on a 50 inch TV just like consoles cannot replicate being on a PC with a mouse and keyboard and playing WoW or TF2, games that generally require more user control.
I grow tired of this "war" that has seemed to developed over the last few years with the console and PC side each claiming imminent victory over the other. Fact is they will continue to co-exist for years to come. - DeviantDragon, on 06/30/2008, -1/+53And thanks for editing your comment to include the bejeweled type games part which now makes me look like I can't read.
- lordtyros, on 06/30/2008, -1/+52CoD4 multiplayer is an unbalanced, grenade-spamming grindfest.
- screwzluse, on 06/30/2008, -0/+50Over time, it has definitely expanded to be an excellent product. The game distribution seems to work well. When Steam was first released, it really had it's issue. Not very polished or anything. Glad to see it evolve into what it is today.
- Grommy, on 06/29/2008, -2/+48To be fair, Crytek isn't a real word, either.
- xceptionaly, on 06/30/2008, -2/+46With the exceptions of Valve, Blizzard, and id, PC gaming is almost reverting back into an untapped market. Developers don't make PC games anymore. They either make tech demos that nobody can run (see Crytek) or shovelware console garbage ported to PC (see Epic and just about everybody else). Why do so many people play Dwarf Fortress, a ***** ASCII game? Because believe it or not, there are a lot of people who think that good graphics != good game, and nobody wants to make anything with depth anymore because oh no what if the 12 year old kiddies can't figure it out. Guess we'll just make Generic World War 2 Shooter #542563. Oh it didn't sell. PIRACY PIRACY PIRACY WAAAH.
- Grummond, on 06/30/2008, -0/+42It's gotten to the point, where i just leave the MP part of a game alone if it says "Powered by Gamespy".
I have yet to play a multiplayer game with Gamespy that didn't have massive issues. Lag, bugs, random disconnects, offline servers...I don't need that kind of grief in my life.
Game devs...just say no to Gamespy. - tendonut, on 06/30/2008, -3/+44True, but you could just lower the settings of the PC game. Pay $250 for a video card once and it will be able to play games for 6 years without any problems, but the graphics won't look better as games evolve. They will be basically the same until you replace it......just like a console.
- danomagnum, on 06/30/2008, -1/+41Not to mention there is no more starting your game, having it say "oh by the way, you're going to have to exit and then download a huge patch before you can play" steam takes care of it for you.
- cyrix, on 06/30/2008, -0/+40You're comparing tractors to kittens here buddy. They're vastly different games.
- Tanner, on 06/30/2008, -2/+41This article should just be a picture of Blizzard's bank account and Valve's award shelf. That's all you really need to defer to when someone claims PC is dead.
- latova, on 06/30/2008, -0/+38Only epic and crytek did, both companies attempted to sell PC gamers crappy games and whined about sales. Good riddance to them both. Microsoft used to make a couple of good games for PC now and then but they seem to have dedicated all their resources to the Xbox 360.
- Spartanious, on 06/30/2008, -7/+44I'm loving the pic. Audiosurf FTW!
- Darkangel754, on 06/30/2008, -15/+51Valve FTW!
- NiGHTSChao, on 06/30/2008, -1/+36Typical Halo *****
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -4/+39Why? that's easy... Wrath Of The Lich King, Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3.
- LemmingJesus, on 06/30/2008, -3/+37Shut up Valve and get back to work on the other unlockables!
- quakken, on 06/30/2008, -3/+36Sure, Crysis is pretty, but when you get right down to it, its online sucks (gamespy? come on.) and you needed a nuclear reactor of a computer to play it well.
- CamperBob, on 06/30/2008, -1/+34It wasn't exactly 100% smooth sailing at first. There were people lined up with pitchforks and torches when HL2 first shipped with mandatory Steam activation.
What Valve does well is that they stick with the product, the plan, and most important the *fans* until they get it right. Other PC game companies seem to delight in seeing just how much abuse they can dish out to their paying customers. That's a dangerous thing to do when Blizzard has just taken 10 million of your customers away. - mark076h, on 06/30/2008, -4/+35but games with a $1000 system, a nice video card and LCD monitor, AA and AF look alot better than any console game.
- DeviantDragon, on 06/30/2008, -0/+31Well it's not like you only use a computer to game. It has value in the other functions that it performs.
- Maratanos, on 06/30/2008, -3/+34I love how polarizing PC gaming is. Everyone's either "OMG piracy PC is doomed!" or "yay PC is awesome!"
- DeviantDragon, on 06/30/2008, -3/+33Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with a company called PopCap games. Makers of Peggle, Bejeweled, and countless other casual gaming titles. Titles that are cheap with little system requirement. They supply the PC market with plenty of casual games which has been extremely successful for them.
- Lunarbunny, on 06/30/2008, -1/+31Man, Epic... what a fall. I played UT99 and even UT2004 for years, UT3 comes, I finish the lackluster single player...and then I play all of about 8 hours online. They've moved all their attention to Gears and licensing their engine and UT3 just ended up being shovelware. Then to add insult to injury, they blame pirates for terrible sales. Instead they should be apologizing to customers like me who actually bought a legitimate copy of what turned out to be a pretty ***** game. Beta-demo my ass, that was the final product.
- BlaenkDenum, on 06/30/2008, -0/+26I just got TF2 on Monday, it's probably the best computer game I've ever played in a long while, by while I mean /years/. It's the best $20 I've spent, it's the perfect price and the game is still being worked on, with packs being released regularly. There's ignorant people who complain about steam being bloated and what not but it's truly awesome. I used to hate steam back in its early days and I'm sure others will agree it sucked, but now it's my favorite and preferred way of getting games; if I can get it on Steam, I'd rather get it through there. I don't have to worry about losing the hard copy or anything, any computer I'm at I just login to steam and download. The graphics, sound, UI, gameplay, and best of all community make TF2 so frickin awesome. It only sucks that it took me this long to give it a try, hah, stupid me went with UT3 instead in January, shouldn't have wasted my time with that and taken TF2.
Today I bought the game for my friend, and tomorrow I'm getting it for my brother. Let it be known that I torrent many games, but I definitely shell out money for a game I like and want to support, and TF2 is definitely worth it. - NCecil, on 06/30/2008, -1/+26You just don't understand -- it doesn't cost $1000's of dollars to get a PC that you can play games on. ~$800 these days will get you all the hardware you need to play the latest games, and unlike consoles, you can spend a $100 here and there to keep it up to date. Also, you get a ***** COMPUTER the primary utility of the modern age. Can you use Digg on a console (the wii doesn't count, shut up!)?
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -3/+28I played Crysis and it honestly just seemed like FarCry with prettier graphics.
It was still pretty good though. - EmperorAwesome, on 06/30/2008, -14/+39I blame invincible Koreans for Crysis' sucktitude.
- sotose, on 06/30/2008, -1/+26Depends on the type of games you want to play.
When there's a console that has wow,Diablo 3,suppreme commander,starcraft 2 and mame,I will be the first to buy it.
Other than that,I like it how I can write a document in office,take a quick TF2 break and then talk to my family from accross the globe via skype all in one machine. - DarkStryke, on 06/30/2008, -3/+28Console updates cycles are established via MS and Sony, and they don't like to give updates like this away for free on XBL every couple weeks. @home is another story, as valve did not do the port but a third party did, and good luck with anymore updates on the PS3.
Valve has done what many other game companies could only dream of: embraced a market and produced many quality titles in a row that people froth at the teeth for the next valve game, instead of laughing at it like EA/Crysis. - DeviantDragon, on 06/30/2008, -0/+24Train and complicated.
- tenio, on 06/30/2008, -4/+27lol its valVe not valUe
but ur message is still good :) - LemmingJesus, on 06/30/2008, -3/+26Where was I when they were handing out those free 50 inch HDTVs? Oh yeah, that's right, only a minority of people own anything like that,
- SirRoxen, on 06/30/2008, -2/+24Since when do you have to pay $1000s of dollars to have a decent gaming pc? -_-
My system, $40 x2 3800+ (newegg), $90 x1900gt (newegg), $80 2gb ram (used purchase), $25 mobo (used purchase)
Plays Crysis on medium pretty well. -_- -
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