FSB75 wrote:
Only 2 things about the OP bother me:
1) He has the nerve to act surprised about the quality of BO after MW2. Treyarch, IW...it's all the same under Activision.
2) He takes the time to "tweet" JD-whoever....as if that guys gives a damn, or ever will.
Look, I don't know if BF3 (or the future of PC gaming for that matter) has the power to pull the FPS "title" (or gaming in general) from the COD series. What I do know is that according to the 2010 ESA Essentials Fact - Sales, demographics, and usage data chart http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_Essential_Facts_2010.PDF:
- In 2009, the TOTAL PC sales were 500,400,000 dollars.
- In 2009, the TOTAL console sales were 9,900,000,000 dollars (BTW, yes, that's Billions, as in, starts with B).
*That's 19 times as much in sales.
Additionally:
- In 2009, the total units sold for PC gaming was 23.5 million.
- In 2009, the total units sold for consoles was 250 million.
*More than 10 times as much
So what does this mean tot he PC gamer. It means stop acting so surprised that you are continually offered "shovelware" that is marketed as quality software. Rather...stop believing the hype, wait a bit to see, THEN make a decision on your purchases.
If you don't believe for one seconds that EA isn't using this whole, disenfranchised/ disconnected/ disappointed gaming community to it's advantage, in an effort to boast it's next title, BF3, as PC lead system, and PC gamer friendly, and PC this and PC that, your just going to be on thier forums yelling at how they "screwed you".
The PC gaming market is nothing more than a "bonus" to game publishers, and from the looks of sales, hardly even compares with the kick backs paid to them from consoles like the 360 (Micrsoft) for "first rights" and "exclusive" content.
Your a PC gamer...wear that title with pride. But for the love of all that is frag-worthy, don't you dare act surprised when your platform of choice, and your community at large is treated like an afterthought that most publishers would rather not even be bothered with.
What you should be surprised about, is that many PC gamers continue to support these trends, and blindly buy many of these substandard titles...thus continuing the justification for the very treatment we endure.
I get what you're saying, and you're right in many ways. I know there's little we can do about it and generally I accept that. But just because they're a business out to get money does not mean that that makes it okay for them to deliberately screw over their customers. Yeah, PC players are vastly outnumbered by console players, but we still accounted for 23 million in sales. That is a lot of money and a lot of fans that they don't care about. It's not like we're 500 people to 1,000,000 console players. That's 23 million people they've outright scammed. That doesn't make it fair or right in any way.
Personally, I don't care about BF3. I don't want to play it. So none of that personally affects me, though I don't doubt that EA will use all of this to their advantage. But at least EA puts out working games from what I've played.
What's a shame is that I did wait to see about BO. The person I wanted to play with was constantly looking up news and information about it. We both researched it well, AND we read forums and watched people playing online. Not that many people had a problem in the beginning. We don't just shell out $120 willy-nilly.
I don't mind that the game is an obvious port. I mind that we paid $60 for a digitally distributed copy of a game - no disc, no case, no manual, nothing. We paid the same price as everyone else and we got less. We didn't get the four extra zombies maps from WaW. We didn't get anything physical or tangible. And to top it all off, we didn't even get a working game. There's a difference between a port and something that doesn't even work. It's an outright scam at this point, considering the fact that they've had plenty of time to address these issue and put out patches.
But JD is too busy tweeting about his beloved theater mode to, you know, do his job. He's the community manager, not the ******* hype machine, and he needs to start acting like it before, when the next CoD releases, it goes from 23.5 million PC sales down to 15 million.
