Opinion: PC fanboys...

[Azimuth]

Sense of humour failure, perhaps?

An attack would have been naming the person and quoting the relevant posts. Except I don't even remember the guy's name, or which thread the argument took place in. I'm hardly that petty.

The article was a collated response to several years of the same stupid, pointless argument.

 

[OmegaFenix]

Here's some food for thought. What would you say if I told you.. the gaming industry is slowly forcing people into purchasing / using consoles as the main gaming platform due to piracy on the PC? Exclusives titles definately attract people depending, hell Gears of War was 360 exclusive and it made me buy the console.

I currently have a PC and 360, and I do most of my gaming on the PC, and play the 360 just for the exclusive titles, Gears1+2, Fable2 etc. I just think from a developer's or publisher's point of view, if i was going to release a new game I would want some guarenteed sales so I'd launch on console platform's, 360 and PS3 first. And after 3-4 months you release the PC version. You can already see this trend happening, but I guess that all depends on the developer or publisher.

With some of the exclusive titles your bang out of luck, you have no choice. Buy the console or dont play the game. Hell I dream of the day I can get a PS3 and fire up Metal Gear Solid 4!
I think people who have matured around gaming in general are typically not fan boys, at the end of the day we all just want to play great games.

We are gaming fanboys. Like another forumite said, we play games not platforms.

 

[phoenix]

Going back to the matter of piracy, it isn't as though that does not affect consoles.
Playstation 2 has been chipped, as has Xbox 360 and I know of a place in my home town that does Wiis. I doubt whether this is done just so that people can back up their games. Sure, piracy is a more expensive option on console than PC owing to the cost of having one chipped, but surely it still hurts sales.

How difficult is it to make a machine unchippable and why can that technology not be incorporated in PCs?

 

[Solitude]

Sense of humour failure, perhaps?

An attack would have been naming the person and quoting the relevant posts. Except I don't even remember the guy's name, or which thread the argument took place in. I'm hardly that petty.

The article was a collated response to several years of the same stupid, pointless argument.

The article wasn't particularly funny. Neither was any of your responses. The same kind of article can be written about console fanboys. The truth is that there is a market for both console and pc games. I'm neither I'm a gamer. If I were to write an article about fanboys, it would have been exactly that. I wouldn't take a side as you did by writing about PC fanboys in particular.

No the reason why you did that was because of this thread: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=2000&page=3

Poor Ionflux gave his opinion that he hates consoles. I do not agree with the opinion and neither do you. Nevertheless it is his opinion. You then said this:

Comments like this make you look like an idiot.

Maybe his comments weren't all that great but writing a reply in that way was an insult and in doing so you provoked him. So of course he wrote things that he shouldn't have either.

Now you were both provoked. Trading insults and what not until you write this:

I'll just pop you onto my ignore list then, shall I? Grand.

But you started the argument in the first place with a personal attack. He wrote about a console and you wrote about him. His post was impersonal and yours were personal.

I didn't mind any of this because it happens on forums sometime.

Then you went and wrote an article about it. Now everyone, go read the thread and then read her article and tell me that the article was objective. No it was subjective and it was in direct relation to that thread.

I suddenly realized that wait a second! I know this person. Few people go about looking to cause controversy. So I found her:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=156706&highlight=Azimuth

So no. People who are given the chance to write articles should not go about making it personal. You should have either continued in that thread or you should have stopped and left the issue alone.

You knew full well that the people who read the console vs pc gaming thread would read the article.

 

[The Joker]

20 Points for Solitude on that. Very well said
I read the article and I have to agree with Solitude on this 1.

Azimuth...Don't make me put a smile on your face.

 

[Tinman]

Ok I think this has run its course.

I will discuss the issue further with Azimuth privately, but as far as I can tell the article was just an opinion piece on how lame it is to be hate particular platforms. Nevertheless, we don't want personal conflicts being aired out on our front page, so this wont happen again.