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Games Industry Transitions In 2013: Will Consoles And Windows Rise Again?

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Re: Games Industry Transitions In 2013: Will Consoles And Windows Rise Again?

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Every year is the year of PC gaming. PC gaming rocks. Shitty console ports and "release to console six months before PC" however, do not.

PC gaming rocks.

PC gaming should rock, but as long as the AAA end of the industry is plagued by rushed-out-before-the-holidays titles full of bugs, graphics driver and other hardware compatibility problems, "anti-cheating" and "copy protection" software that is little more than malware in nice clothing, and you-don't-really-own-anything licensing set-ups where most/all of the value of a game can be arbitrarily taken away from me, I'll spend my money somewhere else.

That somewhere else might be small/independent PC games makers, or GoG, or puzzle game apps on a tablet, but most likely I find it's nothing to do with computer gaming at all. It wasn't the games that killed the fun for me, it was all the abusive junk almost everyone started including with them, and that only seems to be getting worse with time.

Re: Games Industry Transitions In 2013: Will Consoles And Windows Rise Again?

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I bought Far Cry 3 the other day, but had some problems playing it. Specifically, there are bugs in the key bindings mechanism, where some vehicles are stuck on the default key maps, even though the keys are configured differently in the preferences. I looked into the key map preferences file, and it's fairly clear how the key mapping is implemented in the game: the defaults are hard-coded in, and "mapping" is implem…

Same here, although things do look promising for gaming outside Windows.

All other platforms but for Linux have much more user-hostile leaderships - and Linux is user-hostile for different, more incidental reasons. The only platform with hope for the user is Android, and it's not clear how it's going to play out in the long term, whether rooting will be tolerated or clamped down upon when in the presence of DRM.
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