Blizzard: We're a Games Developer, Not PC Developer

[crazybernie]

Sooo, Mr. "We're a games developer"... where are all of the games?

 

[Rizlla]

[citation][nom]Zeh[/nom]Starcraft sucked on the Nintendo 64.[/citation]
For me anything sucks if it is not on a PC 😉

 

[Rizlla]

[citation][nom]bearracuda[/nom]Maybe if you've looked at NOTHING else for the past 4 years. I mean, have you SEEN the in-game graphics for final fantasy 13? "blew them out of the water" would be an understatement. A big one. Blizzard has the capabilities to make cutting edge graphics, yes, but they don't want to. Their cinematics are serious quality, but we get 4-5 of those per game, if we're lucky. And their in-game graphics are awful compared to their cinematics. On top of that, they do half their cutscenes in gameplay graphics. Usually that's not a big deal, but some of the wrath of the lich king cutscenes just made me wanna barf. They hardly even took the time to match mouth movements to dialogue. >.> I was perfectly ready to forgive that, though, given the quality of gameplay we got in WotLK. Which is something that severely dropped off in Cataclysm.[/citation]

I haven't played final fantacy since 8 came out. It go a bit boring for me. Everyone moaned so much about Cataclysm, but I actually think it was not so bad. There were some really cool additions added.

 

[lucky015]

What is the world coming to where Blizzard are the ones that speak the truth.

 

[bak0n]

I've been done with blizzard for years. Anyone else?

 

[techguy911]

No piracy on consoles "It’s unfortunate that the illusion that piracy on consoles is not possible has been propagating for so long and that developers have bought into it"

I repair consoles vast majority i have seen are modded in some way hardware,software,firmware.

 

[darasen]

[citation][nom]anony2004[/nom]But I do like the fact that their games are actually built for the mighty PC too, infact most of their games have been for PC only.[/citation]

To clarify the games they make are Pc and Mac.

 

[upgrade_1977]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]"It’s unfortunate that the illusion that the PC is dying has been propagating for so long and that people have bought into it,"Much thanks to persons like Toms Hardware's Wolfgang for instance, claiming that PC is crashing while its infact growing in sales as late of yesterday. Amazing what a few journalists can do. Maby its time that Tom's Hardware sack's that kind of so called "journalism" and focus on quality not speculations made without proper information much like "fanbois" do.. that don't belong in a professional site.[/citation]

I completely agree!! Its one reason i am loosing interest in this site. Hopefully it stops soon or else im leaving. Not gonna keep supporting a site that keeps talking about the demise of our favorite platform?

 

[borisof007]

Anyone remember Starcraft 64? You had to have the additional memory module to play Brood War. Fun times.

I'm one of the few who were able to play Starcraft Ghost on the first XBOX at the first Blizzcon. It was actually a lot of fun, but it didn't feel right, so I understand why Blizzard shelved it. Blizzard games never really felt polished on a console. However, with Diablo III, I could potentially see the PS3 making an entry. Sony's going to pass up Microsoft soon because they're allowing 3rd parties to develop their platforms on their console (Steamworks, and possibly soon, Battle.net).

 

[dola74]

A True gamer has it all 8p The PC is king and will always will be.

Why hold yourself back and only have consoles or just a PC 8( that's stupid purchase all 3 or 4 I have 360, ps3 and wii and the PC well it's the workhorse for serious power gaming visuals.

Diablo 3, Rage, Skyrim and Swtor are going to keep me busy 8)

 

[atikkur]

yea... PC all the way. i love blizzard.. i love starcraft. quality games indeed.

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]upgrade_1977[/nom]Not gonna keep supporting a site that keeps talking about the demise of our favorite platform?[/citation]

If it were true it would been ok as its news like every other news, now its just speculations without any ground - seen through the biased eyes of a reporter that seem to be allowed to keep posting the same slander over and over (Wolfgang's - Everything but apple products are doomed "news" over and over).

Thats not how i think Tom's Hardware want to be recognized - As slanderous!

 

[kinggraves]

I know this will break the hearts of PC gamers, but "install base" does not equal sales, especially not in the PC industry which has a lot more free to play/demo installs and Steam bundles than consoles do. Blizzard's massive PC success also does not mean every PC developer in general is doing well. PC sales are doing better but still don't compare to the combined software sales of all consoles, and that's at a time when most consoles are nearing the end of their life cycle.

I'm not saying console games are superior, but there are a lot of factors against PC gaming. The average person doesn't want to pay for good graphics cards or build their own system. They also don't want to deal with installations and DRM. Steam has helped with the latter problem by making PC games easier to play. The former isn't as much a problem as it used to be either, these days even fairly low end systems can still work for game graphics. PC gamers still have a tendency to play a single game longer, which hurts the number of sales. A PC gamer installs a FPS and mods it when it gets old, or plays an MMO and contributes to the same game over and over through transactions. Console gamers have had a tendency to buy a game, play it to completion, then trade it in for a new game. Consoles thus make more box sales than PC games. With networked games and PC developers in the console industry however bringing games like CoD into the mix, people are trading in less and playing one console game more. Console box sales are going to decrease, and PC games will increase.

 

[Guest]

How the heck do you play WOW with a console controller? Some games are just better on a PC (like all of them). FPS, RPG's, sims, anything that's not some idiotic side scroller.

 

[eddieroolz]

Well I guess Activision should be recognized for their commitment to the PC platform.

 

[Prey]

IMHO I feel that both console games and PC games have a place, and there can be some cross-over.

To me it seems as though in the console world, the quality of games aren't there. Even when they make a sequel i.e. Dragon Age 2 it's just bad, or so much worse that it's predecessor. If you want to push graphics do it like Crysis did, have some game that is just balls to wall beautiful and create a new 'benchmark.'

This world is motivated by money, no one is above that, just make good games and money will come.

 

[HMRkingpin]

[citation][nom]dthx[/nom]The current high-end consoles (XBOX360 / PS3) have been on the market for too long. Although their price has been amended several time, their "performances vs money" ratio is no longer interesting compared to what reasonably priced PC's can now achieve. Once a totally new console design comes out, it will take lots of PC gamers away from their computer for some time, until they get bored and find out that recent PC hardware can again do much better. It's cyclic...[/citation]

that s the truth for me anyway. I went from console to computer, back to console, back to computer, back to cosole, back to computer, back to console, and now I am currently back into computers. I still had both for the most part during those times, but I am just going by what I was actually spending my time on. Only thing I really use my console for now is streaming music from my computer and maybe playing some Mortal Kombat.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

[citation][nom]Rizlla[/nom]Don't start developing for the console. I don't want their shoddy hand me down graphics.[/citation]Blizzard's games don't use top of the line graphics....

 

[dickcheney]

[citation][nom]mjello[/nom]Or maybe the PC is becoming a popular platform for developers again. Thanks to succesfull antipiracy measures for the first time ever.No crack was ever made for HAWX 2. And there is more than the one noncracked title out there. I just can't recall the names.And multiplayer seems to be effectively cut down to paying customers as well .[/citation]

Multiplayer is the best DRM ever. On the other hand, HAWX? LOL Why would anybody want to waste bandwidth on that anyway?

 

[badaxe2]

[citation][nom]dthx[/nom]The current high-end consoles (XBOX360 / PS3) have been on the market for too long. Although their price has been amended several time, their "performances vs money" ratio is no longer interesting compared to what reasonably priced PC's can now achieve. Once a totally new console design comes out, it will take lots of PC gamers away from their computer for some time, until they get bored and find out that recent PC hardware can again do much better. It's cyclic...[/citation]


The only issue is, most of the development money is spent on consoles, so all that horsepower is rarely put to good use. Hell a lot of times it has to be left up to the modding community.

 

[psyxix]

WHat!! Blizzard has been developing mainly for PC since the very start of the company and they're telling me they aren't PC devs?? Wow, it's like saying :" I build houses but I'm not a contractor..."

 

[Energy96]

Afrospinach :
Rizlla since when has Blizzard been at the cutting edge of graphics? Their focus is usually game play which is for me what makes them a special company.

As alidan wrote. Starcraft2 has great grapihcs. If you have a system that can run the game @ 1080p full detail have a good look at it. It really does look good. Cataclysm does not look too bad either.

Everything looks massively better on a PC if you are playing at real Hi-res, like 2560x1440 or 2560x1600.

People need to stop thinking that 1080p is the best. It is if you are talking T.V.s, but it has nothing on a good high res PC monitor. It's this general lack of understanding that is responsible for the proliferation of low res "1080p hi-def" monitors on the market that we see today. It's a total step backwards from what we had years earlier. Its all due to marketing ploys to fool the masses that are clueless into thinking they are getting great value when they are actually being sold a crappy low res monitor. Unfortunately because so many are so uninformed they buy right into it and companies roll in the profits.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]dthx[/nom]The current high-end consoles (XBOX360 / PS3) have been on the market for too long. Although their price has been amended several time, their "performances vs money" ratio is no longer interesting compared to what reasonably priced PC's can now achieve. Once a totally new console design comes out, it will take lots of PC gamers away from their computer for some time, until they get bored and find out that recent PC hardware can again do much better. It's cyclic...[/citation]
I still can't find a computer that can play games decently for the price of a console. Just the price of the OS is almost half the price of the console.

 

[akenmaat]

I stopped caring about Blizzard development the moment they stopped developing LAN games. As far as I'm concerned they can make whatever games they want for whatever platform they want. They'll get exactly the same amount money from me for console games as they do from PC games... $0.00.

 

[darkside_gamer7]

[citation][nom]darasen[/nom]To clarify the games they make are Pc and Mac.[/citation]
Mac???...we are talking about gaming here...not mac...Mac=Pseudo Gaming