Euh, any middle-man must be cut out and consoles still have that first party there preventing for normal publishers to reap the biggest benefits, the extra licensing cost also pumps up the retail price for no good reason as 'Quality Seals' aren't what they used to be. The channels you speak of are just as easy to reproduce on PC, hell, that's where they came from in the first place and any publisher is free to put a service on his own on that free platform, it's only in the implementation of it that things can go awfully wrong (see EA Store for example).
Seriously, with a right approach the PC is more or just as profitable than a console business where the biggest money always goes to just the same three companies who pump their cash in marketing the hell out of everything...
Read the original article on their site, where they give more numbers and descriptions of the average PC gamer. I've never heard of them but if even half of their numbers work out then that still makes the PC just as viable as a gaming platform (in the broadest sense possible) as any console or handheld, something that the console companies probably don't want you to hear. Their article does sound awfully defensive though but that's not such a bad thing if we're talking about PC.
But maybe the biggest mistake JonPeddie are making is putting up the PC against consoles(with or without handhelds), it shouldn't be like that. Keep platforms seperate because even when the PC hasn't got a real parent company, it shouldn't be regarded as a bastard son (it's a special child though ;) ), not by analysts, NPD or gamers.
Massive hasn't made an MMO but their online infrastructure Massgate.net is the best online matchmaking service of recent years (regardless of genre or platform), that's gotta count for something.
There is a lot of potential with them although the question remains whether EndWar and World in Conflict/Ground Control don't cancel each other out. I easily see Ubisoft tasking Massive with creating yet another Tom Clancy-themed game, whether it's EndWar 2, EndWar: Sci-fi Conflict or EndWar: Cold War Blues.
The previous version had it as well which I thought was a side-effect of all those consolebuttons. :)
But hey, I like it this revamp too for the rest, a lot more respectful for PC users. It's always so much easier to just put a negative comment up like I did first here while MS certainly wants to change something for the better in this case.
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Euh, any middle-man must be cut out and consoles still have that first party there preventing for normal publishers to reap the biggest benefits, the extra licensing cost also pumps up the retail price for no good reason as 'Quality Seals' aren't what they used to be. The channels you speak of are just as easy to reproduce on PC, hell, that's where they came from in the first place and any publisher is free to put a service on his own on that free platform, it's only in the implementation of it that things can go awfully wrong (see EA Store for example).
Seriously, with a right approach the PC is more or just as profitable than a console business where the biggest money always goes to just the same three companies who pump their cash in marketing the hell out of everything...
Read the original article on their site, where they give more numbers and descriptions of the average PC gamer. I've never heard of them but if even half of their numbers work out then that still makes the PC just as viable as a gaming platform (in the broadest sense possible) as any console or handheld, something that the console companies probably don't want you to hear. Their article does sound awfully defensive though but that's not such a bad thing if we're talking about PC.
But maybe the biggest mistake JonPeddie are making is putting up the PC against consoles(with or without handhelds), it shouldn't be like that. Keep platforms seperate because even when the PC hasn't got a real parent company, it shouldn't be regarded as a bastard son (it's a special child though ;) ), not by analysts, NPD or gamers.
Massive hasn't made an MMO but their online infrastructure Massgate.net is the best online matchmaking service of recent years (regardless of genre or platform), that's gotta count for something.
There is a lot of potential with them although the question remains whether EndWar and World in Conflict/Ground Control don't cancel each other out. I easily see Ubisoft tasking Massive with creating yet another Tom Clancy-themed game, whether it's EndWar 2, EndWar: Sci-fi Conflict or EndWar: Cold War Blues.
The previous version had it as well which I thought was a side-effect of all those consolebuttons. :)
But hey, I like it this revamp too for the rest, a lot more respectful for PC users. It's always so much easier to just put a negative comment up like I did first here while MS certainly wants to change something for the better in this case.
And still the buttons are poorly aligned when your mouse hovers over them, just clicking right is a difficult task in itself here.
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