Well, they’re also fighting against being worse then Steam or at least being perceived as being worse.
Our controllers aren’t fitted with finger print readers yet.
nKoan
1868
Doesn’t need to. Kinect will do the facial recognition.
Gunny
1869
Where’s the ‘like’ button?
Heh, no kidding. It’s amazing how they tout permitting other people to use our shit as a selling point.
Teiman
1871
People get angry, and voice his opinions, and nothing is changed. Even if 2 million gamers get angry, and voice his opinions. The voices are unheard.
The opinion of one person, his voice, don’t matter, is unheard. The opinion of 2 millions, the same thing. Yes, the forum/plaza is filled with a loud sound for a while. But that dies.
Even on democracy, these demonstrations account for nothing.
To change something, people must create or join organizations. These organizations can be consumer groups, or political parties. A human is mortal, and must sleep, have his mind in something else, can can get distracted. But a organization can have a laser guided focus on a issue,… can remember, and can act. A organization can ask the people that matter about the issue, and make public who is against, and favour the group focus. Can have a strategy, this strategy can be secret. The only way to win, is trough a organization. Alone, we are mortal. As part of a organization we have strength.
Somebody should throw a hammer at an Xbone screen…
HRose
1873
It’s not “perception” of being worse than Steam, it’s just obvious.
One of the HUGE pros of Steam is that it’s very likely that your game library will outlive YOU (and your hardware). You have those game with you pretty much forever, and that’s why for example Steam also sells or resells old games. Or services like GoG. A game on Steam stays in the market forever. You can still buy Rag Doll Kung Fu.
And you don’t need to worry about not finding the original DVDs, or them getting all scratchy.
With Xbox instead you KNOW that 5 years from now all your library and all your money VOLATILIZE because a new console comes out and there’s no backward compatibility. In the BEST scenario you’ll have to repurchase games you already have, after they are converted.
If you want to play the first Ultima on you PC, you can (and thanks to emulators you also can play ALL games, from coin-ops, to stuff on the Amiga and so on, so including your old consoles).
Try instead to play the first HALO or Gears of War on your Xbox ONE. All your games are gone.
That’s why so many people buy stuff on Steam that they NEVER play. That’s a game library that stays with you. You move to a different continent, buy a new PC, all those games move with you. Instantly. So if you buy a game you don’t even have the urge to play RIGHT NOW, because you know it’s there “forever”.
Forever… unless Valve’s servers die.
GOG, baby!
Steam cracks if that happen, god forbid!
Yeah, the open nature of a PC gives us game cracks as an avenue of last resort not possible on a closed console.
Indeed. The nuclear option on PC has always given gamers a last resort against the abuses of publishers. Thankfully i haven’t had to use it (yet), but in the event steam did close down tomorrow, my first act would not be opening up amazon to buy all my games again… This is basically our only real defense in a system where the consumer has absolutely no protection other than publishers following the honor system.
Of when the sun goes nova.
HRose
1879
I also hope consoles don’t collapse in favor of PC, because consoles are the best thing for PC.
Consoles are the only reason why new games come out that actually run properly. Without consoles it’s once again all about the hardware race.
Timex
1880
I think this is mainly meant to be a clarification of the following bullet, which was that you can share all of your games with all of your family members, which is admittedly a nice feature.
Canuck
1881
That’s an excellent point. My three year old laptop still runs most games just fine. It wasn’t like that at all with my previous laptop.
Zylon
1882
You are a hyperbolic silly person. Back before consoles took the lead, only a small percentage of high-profile games were problematic in requiring the latest/greatest hardware to run well. Bear in mind also that this was during a period when 3D cards were an immature, rapidly developing technology.
If all consoles were to spontaneously disappear overnight, PC gaming would be fine. Sensible developers would look to the example of how successful Valve and Blizzard have been targeting mid-range hardware, and also consider the prevalence of laptops as gaming PCs.
Canuck
1883
I disagree. Before this generation you were lucky if your PC lasted two years before requiring some kind of upgrade. If my laptop from Jan 2010 still runs almost all games perfectly fine then I’m sure a desktop from at least as far back as 2007 could do the same. You couldn’t do that with a PC from 2000 to 2005.
I am gaming on an Alienware PC from 2005/2006. It’s got a 2.8 GHz Core2 Quad processor, 4 GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 280. My monitor is 1680x1050. I have no issues running most everything at the native resolution, and get great framerates.
So are people looking forward to the Summer of Arcade this year for the 360? I have such mixed feelings myself. On the one hand, I say that I don’t like buying stuff from XBLA anymore since there will be no backward compatibility on the XBone. But then, despite that, I just bought State of Decay, which I’m loving, and Dark Souls (which I already had on the PC, but I’m actually loving that much more playing on the couch) because it was on sale for cheaper than when I bought it on sale for the PC, and trying to get enough Bing searches done so that I can get Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, which has an excellent demo.
So what the hell? I thought I was done with XBLA? But except for last year’s round up, Summer of Arcade always gives me some great games to play that are usually better than boxed disc games. Plus they usually port them to the PC eventually and people love them all over again on that platform. I wonder if MS has something nice lined up for this year.
