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Yeah, lets ignore all of those pc games that sell hundreds of thousands and millions of copies. Why put our attention on that? why not put our attention on ****ty pc ports that dont sell!? ITS PIRACY I TELL YOU!!!!!

I find this funny considering PC ports from ubisoft suck major balls. And there is piracy on consoles too. But lets ignore that :rolleyes:

Since P***ytek (also know as Crytek) came out crying about piracy (even tho Crysis sold 1.5 million) now every dev/publisher is doing the same.
 
Actually console Port ( i know u r talking about DMC 3 ) was not done by ubisoft but hey
I hear you and I second that especially about that crysis thing

Actually console Port ( i know u r talking about DMC 3 ) was not done by ubisoft but hey I hear you and I second that especially about that crysis thing
 
Far Cry 2:
If your PC costed you less than 2000 $, dont even bother with Far Cry 2 ;p


Far Crysis: PCs will weep at Far Cry 2's system reqs - Joystiq

What the? Why cant studios cater to the common hw spec trends rather than always targetting the very latest graphic cards and processors? Now wonder console owns this much. One hardware, always fullspeed smooth action.



Ubisoft has revealed the minimum and [strike]respectable[/strike] suggested system requirements for its upcoming FPS / wildfire simulator, Far Cry 2. Let's just say that if your current rig had trouble running Crysis well, it's a far cry from being able to handle FC2.

Oh, and just because previous series-dev Crytek is currently designing Crysis Warhead to run well on $600 systems doesn't mean that its new caretakers at Ubisoft are giving up the war against two-week-old PC components. You'll find the full [strike]shopping list[/strike] rundown of requirements after the break.



(ed: absolute) Minimum requirements

CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
Memory: 1GB
Video card: NVIDIA 6800 or ATI X1650 or better
Shader Model 3 required
256 MB of graphics memory
Media reader: DVD-ROM



"Recommended"

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
Memory: 2GB
Video card: NVIDIA 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better
512 MB of graphics memory

Supported video cards:
NVIDIA 6800, NVIDIA 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.
ATI X1650 – 1950 series, HD2000 series, HD3000 series, HD4000 series.
 
There will always be the piracy-safe genres out there, like MMOs and ARPGs as characters are server side. And since ARPGs are more or less the only thing that interests me on PC, it's okay. Worst case, all the ****ty devs/pubs will make console games in their attempt to convince the masses that their games' sales are low due to pirates, and not from low quality games.
 
I am sure they were planning to break and make records with Crysis and are now sulking and throwing a hissy fit cuz that was not the case...sadly the majority can't afford those 8800GTX's Crysis was being marketed on...what a terrible oversight you morons at Ubisoft.
 
Actually console Port ( i know u r talking about DMC 3 ) was not done by ubisoft but hey
I hear you and I second that especially about that crysis thing

Actually console Port ( i know u r talking about DMC 3 ) was not done by ubisoft but hey I hear you and I second that especially about that crysis thing
Not really. I was thinking on Beyond Good and Evil (massive slowdowns on the boat levels for no friggin reason), Rainbow Six 3 vegas (optimization at its worst) and the horrible disaster GRAW was for the pc.
 
I am sure they were planning to break and make records with Crysis and are now sulking and throwing a hissy fit cuz that was not the case...sadly the majority can't afford those 8800GTX's Crysis was being marketed on...what a terrible oversight you morons at Ubisoft.
8800GTX owner here, without Crysis. I'm probably still gonna buy Crysis when it hits the budget bin. I do that a lot. I guess they never count the revenue they get from games when they hit the budget bin... I'm betting many people rather wait a little longer (they have to wait for pc ports anyway) and buy games at half the price.

But uhm, I heard the "sequel" to Crysis is going to run on lower-spec. So somewhere Crytek must've realised that making a game for the few people with a high-end gaming pc isn't too smart. Frankly, I don't think (or maybe I'm totally wrong?) the people who are able to buy $3000 gaming pc's will then pirate the games. There's just not so many people who can.

Of course, piracy also killed the Dreamcast - never mind that I don't know anyone with a PS1 who didn't have it modded, and surely THAT failed :p
(no, piracy didn't kill the dreamcast, sega's own marketing division and lack of third party support (largely due to their own fault) killed it)

easier to blame everything on piracy, though, and to say the pc gaming community doesn't "understand" copy protections. Of course they don't, THEY are NOT the pirates! As thanks for your support, Ubisoft is now blaming YOU for being a pirate.

Oh, and I almost completely stopped buying Ubisoft games largely because of their bad support - no, I'm not pirating them either. Mind, I might get Assasin's Creed, but again, when it hits the budget bin ;)
 
perhaps, but even then , that'd mean 50 out of 100 people not buying the game when they could've.
I think the real problem is more like all the pc users who can't run it because they have some integrated videocard, or a low end ati or nvidia card.

My dad and brother are no gamers.. I got a PC with a GF4 TI (because I wanted to game) in 2003. Not long after that my dad buys a new pc, it has an ATi Radeon 9200... basically it wasn't fit to game with when it was new. Not long after that my brother got a PC with an ATi Radeon 9600. Ok, it could run some games, but it was not fit for the new stuff from the start. My PC outperformed them both game-wise (since it was older, it lost on pure processing power), but was rendered a lot less usefull when games went pixel shader 2.0 only (OR you got a massive performance hit) in 2004.
...aaaand, that's when I bought a PS2. Must've been because of piracy.

Now, the PC I had was built by myself. The other two is what most people buy.
A) Not everyone who buys a PC is a gamer
B) Even if they are, its probably more likely they're using a run-of-the-mill pc that's gaming-wise outdated when you buy it.
No wonder those games don't sell.
 
Development costs" have gone pretty outrageous since a few years, and yet quality is generally questionable. Anyone dreaming of being the the next Rockstar is nothing but a complete fool. Hollywood-esque "budgets" dont make games magically better (if anything, just impress the gaming press. Same with screenshots)

Now try recouping 30 million dollars with games rushed to the market, targetted to only hardcore gamers with very recent machines, and bundled with the latest anticonsumer DRM.
 
Now thats the real problem good thing the disscusions finally started like i said in a DMC4 thread alot of friends with lower end PC'S (what i mean by that is that they dont have PS3.0) would have buyed DMC4 if it didnt required PS3.0 and they could play it(same case with Assassin's Creed because it requires a dual core) now i know hardware its progressing and so are games but the requirments are really set to high maybe hardware its progressing but not also people pockets (i mean money here) some of you would probably want to tell me that hey its the new age and good graphics require high end pc specs well it doesent, seened some awsome graphics even with out some super high end PC's (one pretty close example would be COD 4 which played quite well on an 9600 Pro with a socket 754 sempron 3000+ (1800Mhz) and 1 gig Ram (but it would have worked also with 512 i'm preaty sure) anyway the requirments could have been lowered still and to solidify my case look at consoles they are managing to improve graphics over years even though the console hardware stays the same.

So in conclusion its stupid to blame it on piracy they should blame there selfs for not planing the game development right (this aplly's for most game developers not just ubisoft)
 
B) Even if they are, its probably more likely they're using a run-of-the-mill pc that's gaming-wise outdated when you buy it.
No wonder those games don't sell.
Sounds like me. Outdatedness is a reason why I don't buy too many PC games, and while most games offer enough graphical castration to let it run, it looks like ****. No matter how much I'd like to play so-and-so PC game, I end up waiting for bargain bin prices, and adding it to the queue for when I finally get an upgrade.

Me, and others like me, should be the primary reason devs/pubs switch to console. It should have nothing to do with piracy. That said, I don't think making graphically inferior PC games is necessarily a good idea.
 
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