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2012-06-17, 11:44 PM | [Ignore Me] #31 | |||
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I was a die-hard Windows fanboi until I tried out Ubuntu recently. Now it's on all the machines in my house other than my gaming rig. Seamless compatibility between the two OSs and just as capable for everything except running games but, it boots faster and is far easier to get it to do what you want, if you know how to do it. For just using the internet and word processing, like what most people use their computer for, it's no different, as far as ease of use goes, than windows. It isn't that *nix systems are lacking support, it's that developers find it easier (because that is what most of them are taught to use) to use windows libraries rather than finding open source or cross-platform propriety ones that do the same job and can be compiled against more than one OS. However, Direct3D is miles ahead of OpenGL as far as bells an whistles go. And everyone knows eye-candy is very important to the modern AAA title. |
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2012-06-18, 12:18 AM | [Ignore Me] #33 | |||
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When I used ATI, I always used 3rd party drivers but, that was back in 2004 so I don't know if any still exist since they were acquired by AMD. The 3rd party drivers were always more stable and almost always faster than the stock ones you got from the ATI site. I've been using NVIDIA ever since which is why I can't really say anything about it other than that. If it doesn't run on windows and it has video hardware acceleration, it probably uses OpenGL so I'd say that if they don't have resources for optimizing it, they are going to fall behind. Last edited by Novacane; 2012-06-18 at 12:22 AM. |
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2012-06-18, 01:39 AM | [Ignore Me] #34 | ||||||
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Being at the mercy of one company is never a good thing, be it MS or Valve.
For instance: MS can do whatever it wants and people are forced to swallow it. I'm not saying linux is the answer to all our problems, but if there was another decent gaming friendly OS out there (mac may be slowly getting there), us users would see more love because the companies would forever be trying to win us over as opposed to what happens today when they basically just say "release the new OS with whatever crap we want, it's not like those suckers have much choice... and while we're at it, also charge whatever we want, mwahahahaha". That said, i do support the idea of a person "storing" every game they own into one place like Steam, and i'd hate to have 50 steam-like platforms in my PC, but you have to agree that some competition would make things a litte better for the consumers. However i have to point out that so far i still haven't had any reasons to complain about Steam in that regard... their frequent offering of deals (probably because while Steam is owned by one company, it's theoretically open to all others) makes me feel more cherished as a loyal customer than any other company has made me feel so far.
But true, there may or may not be good reasons, we don't know what they might be. Also, QFT:
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2012-06-18, 03:15 AM | [Ignore Me] #38 | ||
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As long as they _NEVER_ make some deal with EA regarding distrubution I'll be happy tbh. But I don't think EA will want to touch a F2P game with 10 foot pliers. Greedy sob's *mumble mumble*...
And yes, as someone pointed out... remember Steam when it first launched? It was waaay worse than Origin. You regularly wanted to stab whoever came up with it.... But now it's absolutely great and I think it'd be very good PR to have the game on steam.
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2012-06-18, 03:55 AM | [Ignore Me] #39 | ||
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apparently Steams policy on after market sales / micro transactions is a bit grabby.
Why should SOE share the profits just to use Steam anyway? look at Tribes:ascend...has it's own integrated client / logon / management / auto patcher and shop...and that way they arent restricted by Steams grabby grabbyness and patch deployment shenanigans.. Steams alleged grabbyness / policies are just my interpretation of other conversations I've seen on various game forums, and are not based on any hard research on my part so..feel free to dis if incorrect.. |
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2012-06-18, 04:36 AM | [Ignore Me] #40 | |||
Personally I would much rather have all DLC/social game services be completely optional requirements, but them's the breaks as it were. I have no idea how Steam handle their cuts with F2P games. I don't see Valve taking a cut out of ingame items bought via stationcash, so I would guess Sony will simply be paying Valve to allow PS2 to be distributed through Steam. Last edited by ChipMHazard; 2012-06-18 at 04:39 AM. |
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2012-06-18, 04:42 AM | [Ignore Me] #41 | ||
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I'd like it to be on Steam, I'd love it if the game used VAC Anti Cheat. PS1 suffered from a lack of advertising, yes, but it was also 2003. Most people didn't have computers then, and the internet especially. Now every tom, dick, and harry has a PC and internet.
PS2 will be alot more popular. If it got on Steam, the growth would be 5x higher than if it were stand alone. That's just my .02 cents.
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2012-06-18, 05:00 AM | [Ignore Me] #42 | ||
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I hope the game will be fully integrated with steam with will make the game more popular because as we can see many people dont even know planetside 2 even existe i always have to do some marketing stuff to let people know the game is actually awesome and will be out soon !
Almost every body i play whith exept my few ps1 vets friends dont even know the game exist at all ! So having steam to make it even more popular is the best moove they can make ! |
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2012-06-18, 05:01 AM | [Ignore Me] #43 | |||
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2012-06-18, 05:18 AM | [Ignore Me] #45 | |||
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