DICE: PC Gamers get ''the shaft'' too often

[Azimuth]

So listening to your customers is a bad thing? O...K....

I didn't say it's a bad thing at all. On the contrary, it's good business. But it's still business.

I think you kinda missed my point, Etiko. Sense of humour failure?

[Xarog]

I love how everyone denounces Infinity Ward and Activision for abandoning their PC gamers, being fascist corporate pigs, etc., but nobody sees DICE's timely bit of PR as an obvious cash-in to prevailing negative sentiments. It's all business, kids.

It's business which keeps the customer though.

I couldn't care if game devs are all two bit money grubbing whores, as long as they still make quality products.

[Azimuth]

See my post above, dear.

[Xarog]

I'll admit I don't see the humour in the post.

[Maplassie]

Plus the fact that Dice have good support on their products. Yeah the patches are Huge, but check. BF2 was released in 2005, and yet patches kept on rolling out now till 2009. Yeah sure most will see this as 4-5 years of problems then. BUT......

I see this as 4-5 years of listening to customers and trying to fix their game. If they didn't give a Damn they would never have continued with allmost 5 years of support. Coupled with what they have been saying now, it does show they care. On the one hand one might think they are playing on our feelings now as we are surely sore after the IW ordeal , and they are capitalizing, while on the other one might think they are seriously just recognizing the needs of the PC gamer, which infact, they are.
Clever marketing this, as it's only really with MW2 that we don't have dedi servers,(along with some other less important titles like Flashpoint 2, but thats a different story) most ppl don't see this. Dice saw the gap and are now playing the good guys. But in the end it's win-win. They get our money, we get a brilliant low ping DEDICATED SERVER based Multiplayer experience

[Raging Monkey]

I love how everyone denounces Infinity Ward and Activision for abandoning their PC gamers, being fascist corporate pigs, etc., but nobody sees DICE's timely bit of PR as an obvious cash-in to prevailing negative sentiments. It's all business, kids.

I think you kinda missed my point, Etiko. Sense of humour failure?

wait, what?

Obviously it's all business - in fact CoD is probably more popular now than it has ever been. Clever publishers maybe?

[DiceAir]

Same here. Dice are frikkin awesome.

LOL ag dankie man. Ek weet ek is awesome...lol

Ek weet van wie jy praat.

[Blackhand]

DICE would be silly NOT to capitalize on Activision/Infinity Ward's moment of weakness in the PC market. At least they seem to know what we want.

[Gradius]

Good article. +1 to Etiko
I hate to be screwed over cause of playing on a Pc. Yes I have a 360/ps3 but it's not the point. PC is my fav plain and simple :O

lols @ diceair comment


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