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Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 319

by jsnipy (#37655010) Attached to: .NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro
The problem with all of this is the flawed thinking that everything is desktop centric. Metro is new, along with Windows 8. .Net stretches waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay further than the desktop. This shows the short sighted thinking of many posters, or the fact that they work in shops still rewriting the same software since the 90's.
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How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port 244

Posted by Soulskill from the all-the-myriad-ways dept.
An anonymous reader writes "An article at Ars goes through some of the biggest sins game publishers commit when porting a console game to the PC. At the top of the list, predictably, are annoying DRM and inconvenient game settings. From the article: 'PC gamers like to play with their mouse settings, adjust the amount of detail in the characters or environment, and change the audio mix between the music and the sound effects. We want to adjust the resolution, the aspect ratio, and even the field of view settings. The more options given to PC gamers, the better. While some engines support more options than others, there is a minimum amount of tweaking that should be available when we jump into the game. For an example of how badly PC gamers can get screwed on this issue, we can take a look at Bulletstorm when it was launched. Not only was mouse smoothing turned on as a default, but there was no way to turn it off. You had to find the configuration files, which were encrypted for some insane reason, and then install a third-party program to be able to turn off mouse smoothing and get the game feeling like it should on the PC."

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