Comment Re:Proper link (Score 1) 382
Especially when you consider in the speccy vs cbm64 debte the cbm64 was clearly superior a feat later recreated when commodore drubbed the st for general use
Game Devs On the Future of PC Gaming 375
Shacknews wraps up a developer panel at PAX East discussing the future of gaming on the PC. They cover topics including DRM, digital download platforms and cloud-based gaming services.
"Joe Kreiner of Terminal Reality: 'If you look at it from a giant publisher perspective, then the numbers on the PC just really don't make financial sense for you to bother with it. But if you start out with the mindset — you know, you're targeting that group, you make a niched product that's going [to] do well, if you look at a lot of the titles on Steam, Torchlight's a really good example — as long as you know that's your audience to begin with, and you make something inside of a budget that you know you're going to be selling those kinds of numbers, you can be very successful. I think it just takes a targeted developer. ... There is no [PC] platform, really. It's just a mish-mosh of hardware, an operating system that kind of supports games. The problem with that platform is, there's no standards and piracy is rampant, so why would we want to make a video game for that platform unless you had some sort of draconian DRM thing to keep it from being stolen?"
Comment Re:And what is wrong with this? XP did the same (Score 1) 561
In my view this is really totally unacceptable. If for any reason I need to reinstall the operating system (this is really my choice to do this), then I don't want to be dictated to HOW I should do this. I really have no choice but to run a version of windows at home as a lot of the research I do for my job is windows based and I'm not about to go changing what I do for a living because I want to move to linux (I do actually run linux on another machine). There is NO REASON whatsoever for microsoft to stop me from installing an upgrade version by booting from the disk and then when prompted inserting my full copy of my previous version of windows in and entering the software key that I paid money for.
In fact this is a sales and marketing decision and nothing else, its really quite disgusting they have done this. Luckily I will be needing the ultimate version so hopefully this WILL install in the "classic way", otherwise I will be forced to buy a full copy which is significantly more expensive. I resent that, and much as I doubt it will change anything I just wanted to state publicly that no matter how big a company is or how "important" its product is, it can all end tomorrow if your customers stop buying.
In fact this is a sales and marketing decision and nothing else, its really quite disgusting they have done this. Luckily I will be needing the ultimate version so hopefully this WILL install in the "classic way", otherwise I will be forced to buy a full copy which is significantly more expensive. I resent that, and much as I doubt it will change anything I just wanted to state publicly that no matter how big a company is or how "important" its product is, it can all end tomorrow if your customers stop buying.
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