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| Isomac Since 935 Days |
2008-07-22 21:01:35 GFW Live Multiplayer becomes free (PC) http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168931
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| Phaethon360 Mr Pant Since 1014 Days |
2008-07-22 21:21:05 In before Grift's rant. --- |
| GriftGFX He can also ban your ass! Since 1168 Days |
2008-07-22 22:39:51 No rant needed. It's hilarious that they thought they could charge for it in the first place. It's probably the primary reason that Live Anywhere was dead on arrival in the first place. Well, that and Vista's extremely low adoption rate. |
| alimokrane Since 1098 Days |
2008-07-22 23:06:58 Justice prevails Wooooot! --- |
| Inflatable Since 1806 Days |
2008-07-23 00:43:51 I thought PC v PC online gaming was always free, also with Live for Windows (silver).. So what changed really? Do we get crossplatform gaming for free now? That's great, just to bad there're bassicly no games that support it, lol.. --- |
| GriftGFX He can also ban your ass! Since 1168 Days |
2008-07-23 00:46:40 Posted by the1stpostlol
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| Inflatable Since 1806 Days |
2008-07-23 00:51:51 Aslong as the difference in controls remains you will not see it happen in a succesfull way.. Simply to difficult to balance it.. Balancing now means downgrading or limiting the PC version, which means bassicly noone will play it on PC, so why bother? --- |
| GriftGFX He can also ban your ass! Since 1168 Days |
2008-07-23 01:09:52 In reply to Inflatable (2008-07-23 00:51:51) Posted by Inflatable
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| Inflatable Since 1806 Days |
2008-07-24 21:59:56 You would maybe, but I doubt a lot of PC gamers would.. Plenty of other good (dare I say better) shooters on PC to play online that are not downgraded in (what's the usual standard on PC in terms of controls with aiming etc) gameplay just to balance it for consolegamers.. So why bother to port a game for the PC if hardly anyone will play (read: buy) it on that platform anyway? It's simply not worth the effort and cost.. --- |
| GriftGFX He can also ban your ass! Since 1168 Days |
2008-07-24 22:09:07 Er, Gears of War will be ported to Windows regardless of it's GFW compatibility. One of the major complaints about the PC Version of GOW was that there was no one to be found in the multiplayer mode. Perhaps it was another Epic flop, but it's hard to imagine that you can't see the value in populating multiplayer through any means possible. If Gears 2 had a MP community despite itself, it could, in turn, drive up the number of PC sales.. |
| Inflatable Since 1806 Days |
2008-07-24 22:18:37 I know, but I doubt it will be a succes saleswise.. How many did part 1 sell on PC? --- |
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