How do they do what? Power and water companies give me average download speed ratings? Also overselling doesn't change that network utilization still fluctuates all through the day.
It get 30 mbps down from Time Warner for $55 a month. That's less than 2 hours of salary. It's hardly breaking the bank. I also like my games to download quickly after I buy from Steam rather than wait overnight. My needs obviously differ from yours.
Not that I like Comcast but how exactly do you expect Comcast to do that when the average speed is highly dependent on the ever changing network utilization? The only thing they can really guarantee is peak rate and the bare minimum.
Well duh. The issue of shitty speeds and service was never due to the bullshit they gave such as people 'abusing' their service by actually doing the things Comcast said you could do. The DoJ needs to step in about the lack of competition and rather obvious collusion not to intrude on each other's markets too much.
Funny because Halo, Call of Duty, etc. all sells 10s of millions of copies on consoles and blow away the PC sales by vast margins. Looks like your opinion means dick.
I think the Mac is what has tipped things, enough titles are starting to support OSX on the desktop/laptop, that the hurdle to making the game work on Linux becomes much smaller. I see quite a few that are quite a few already on steam (~380) that support OSX.
You realize that most of those Mac ports on Steam are just wrapped in Cider and not actual ports, right?
You don't know much about game programming do you? There are extensive amounts of architecture specific assembly optimization in most games. So, no, they won't be "easily portable".
Even if every single steam user switched to Linux, which they won't, it would be nary a blip in market share change. This whole "we just need games!" is just the latest excuse for why desktop Linux still fails.
Except he's not right. The vast majority of PC buyers do not play games beyond what comes preinstalled with Windows or what they find online. Even the entire user base of Steam represents maybe a couple of percent of all PC owners.
I never asked a question and my statement wasn't flawed. A 360 is equivalent to worse than a 7 year old PC in performance but can still play a graphically intense game from this year. Just becuase the 'rah rah PC' people dislike that reality doesn't make my statement flawed.
And if you don't believe me even NVIDIA admitted that an 8800 GT only got 26 FPS at 1920x1200 and with no antialiaising and low detail level. Google 'max payne 3 benchmarked' and click the link to the geforce.com article.
Also, Max Payne 3 on a 8xxx series and a 5 year old CPU is noticeably worse than on the 360. To match frame rates you have to lower quality below the 360 version. I know, because I own both versions and have a PC with a CpU and GPU that was near top of the line in 2007.
To further add, your question is flawed because there is no performance improvement from buying a new 360. There is a huge performance improvement between a top-of-the-line 2005 PC and even a low-end PC from this year.
Because a new 360 uses the same CPU and GPU as the original version did. Your brand new PC has a CPU and GPU man generations past what you had in a 7 year old PC.
So let me get this staright. This guy pushes out a buggy game, then pushes out a patch to fix the previously bug game yet it breaks other things. Microsoft then pulls the patch to save others from downlading a buggy patch. In conclusion, somehow this is Microsoft's fault?
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How do they do what? Power and water companies give me average download speed ratings? Also overselling doesn't change that network utilization still fluctuates all through the day.
It get 30 mbps down from Time Warner for $55 a month. That's less than 2 hours of salary. It's hardly breaking the bank. I also like my games to download quickly after I buy from Steam rather than wait overnight. My needs obviously differ from yours.
Not that I like Comcast but how exactly do you expect Comcast to do that when the average speed is highly dependent on the ever changing network utilization? The only thing they can really guarantee is peak rate and the bare minimum.
Well duh. The issue of shitty speeds and service was never due to the bullshit they gave such as people 'abusing' their service by actually doing the things Comcast said you could do. The DoJ needs to step in about the lack of competition and rather obvious collusion not to intrude on each other's markets too much.
Funny because Halo, Call of Duty, etc. all sells 10s of millions of copies on consoles and blow away the PC sales by vast margins. Looks like your opinion means dick.
No, Steam has a lot of Windows games wrapped in Cider so as to do the bare minimum effort.
I think the Mac is what has tipped things, enough titles are starting to support OSX on the desktop/laptop, that the hurdle to making the game work on Linux becomes much smaller. I see quite a few that are quite a few already on steam (~380) that support OSX.
You realize that most of those Mac ports on Steam are just wrapped in Cider and not actual ports, right?
You realize that there are more than a billion PC owners worldwide, right? Your 4 M would be no more than a statistical blip.
You don't know much about game programming do you? There are extensive amounts of architecture specific assembly optimization in most games. So, no, they won't be "easily portable".
Some will move to a console, some to a Mac. But some, lets say a optimistic 30% or 1 million of those start using Linux, just for Steam? That's a lot.
No, it's actually not. Considering Microsoft sold 600 million Windows licenses that 1 million represents less than .2% market share change.
That's because most of those games were shoddy Cider ports.
Even if every single steam user switched to Linux, which they won't, it would be nary a blip in market share change. This whole "we just need games!" is just the latest excuse for why desktop Linux still fails.
Except he's not right. The vast majority of PC buyers do not play games beyond what comes preinstalled with Windows or what they find online. Even the entire user base of Steam represents maybe a couple of percent of all PC owners.
I never asked a question and my statement wasn't flawed. A 360 is equivalent to worse than a 7 year old PC in performance but can still play a graphically intense game from this year. Just becuase the 'rah rah PC' people dislike that reality doesn't make my statement flawed.
And if you don't believe me even NVIDIA admitted that an 8800 GT only got 26 FPS at 1920x1200 and with no antialiaising and low detail level. Google 'max payne 3 benchmarked' and click the link to the geforce.com article.
Lots of people keep their PC more than 5 years.
Also, Max Payne 3 on a 8xxx series and a 5 year old CPU is noticeably worse than on the 360. To match frame rates you have to lower quality below the 360 version. I know, because I own both versions and have a PC with a CpU and GPU that was near top of the line in 2007.
To further add, your question is flawed because there is no performance improvement from buying a new 360. There is a huge performance improvement between a top-of-the-line 2005 PC and even a low-end PC from this year.
Because a new 360 uses the same CPU and GPU as the original version did. Your brand new PC has a CPU and GPU man generations past what you had in a 7 year old PC.
So let me get this staright. This guy pushes out a buggy game, then pushes out a patch to fix the previously bug game yet it breaks other things. Microsoft then pulls the patch to save others from downlading a buggy patch. In conclusion, somehow this is Microsoft's fault?
Their certification is not QA.
Yes, that will happen if you don't play it for months at a time. I use mine nearly daily and it's rare to see a patch.
Yes, publishers rushing out buggy games then trying to blame the console maker does piss me off.
You mean loss of records that anyone could already obtain since they are part of public record?
Date of birth information is part of public record, too. You didn't actually think you DoB was secret did you?
You're exaggerating greatly. I routinely play on my 360 and the last patch I downloaded was months ago.