Comments on: Flamebait Friday Debate / Editorial: Starcraft 2 Is A Shining Example Of Why I Stopped Playing PC Games

By: 0xacdc

0xacdc — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:00:01 +0000

PC is by definition “Personal Computer”. It’s not MS, it’s not Apple Mac, it’s not Linux, Unix. It’s not Via, Intel or AMD. It’s Personal Computer.
On the other hands, any game console is propietary hardware with guaranted propietary software, making someone happy to play “some” games. It’s good bussines (mainly people just like it). This could seem as “the” console is “the” winner. But. There is one BIG issue. Developers, testers and advanced users use PC (at least, as well). Moreover, I want to emphesize (expert) one simple BIG fact that is not, unfortunately, in fact, realized. NOT ONLY PC SOFTWARE IS ALWAYS, FAR FAR AWAY, ANOTHER GALAXY (cause it is almost widely know fact) IN COMPARARISION TO “GAME” DEVICES (consoles) but, and remember it please, HARDWARE. Please look at, e.g. nvidia gtx 480 or even 460. Please look at AMD/ATI 5870 (without mentioning e.g. Asus news – acually and frankly means countless companies). You’re not convienced please look at DX11, AMD(ati) STREAM and Nvidia CUDA. MS Silverlight, OpenGL, OpenCL, and hole USB, WiFi, IP stuff etc etc.. If you definitely, don’t like and/or don’t care it means you don’t care. Accept it. And if so why you’re wasting your time to read this, maybe even writing your opinions, here, there and everywhere (regarding this subject, of course).
No offence, please.

By: Wesley Hopson

Wesley Hopson — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:59:59 +0000

Geez no surprise you hate pc gaming. Mac is not a operating system for gamers pure and simple.

By: Gavin Mannion

Gavin Mannion — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:27:46 +0000

As much as I like mocking Nick about his Mac usage is it really fair to call a one year old computer obsolete?

Blizzard also state the game works on Macs and really playing a game on a Mac or PC is really the same thing in the end. It’s like giving up your PS3 or Xbox 360 as you have had enough of console gaming. It doesn’t matter which one you used as the principle applies to both

By: Bobbit

Bobbit — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:17:48 +0000

Because it’s a one year old MAC book, running a shitty mac OS. That makes ALL the difference. If you had even the slightest clue about PCs you would know that.

So it was a single example, and you dismissed an entire platform based on a single example? Please never go into real journalism. You fail at this.

By: Nick de Bruyne

Nick de Bruyne — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:53:15 +0000

@Bobbit

How is a less than one year old Macbook Pro “terribly obsolete” exactly? You also seem to completely forget that for one, Starcraft 2 is a fully supported Mac release and two, how does that have anything to do with a simple patching process?

How is it that “installation issues are highly likely to occur”? The point is that there are many configurations that have to be catered for, and many people will randomly run into issues for no reason. Tons of people have installed Starcraft 2 on their Macs as well as PC’s without issues, but at the same time there are a lot of people who ran into problems for no good reason.

That’s why this post has nothing to do with Starcraft 2 or Macs, my recent experience was nothing but a single example.

By: Bobbit

Bobbit — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:49:14 +0000

Oh no, we get his point, but it’s a stupid point. The REAL point, which Nick seems to have ironically missed, is that his entire view of a platform is coloured in some part by the use of a shitty macbook. If he had used a proper Windows PC and had a completely clean install, he wouldn’t even be writing this drivel.

No, he was courting disaster by using a 13″ macbook, and then admitting it in a rant condemning the PC platform. We get your point that installation issues are a bitch. But you fail to concede that your installation issues are highly likely to occur when using terribly obsolete hardware. You’re not being nuanced, you’re being stubborn.

By: sNaKe

sNaKe — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:55:00 +0000

Dude, don’t bother. Your point is being fantastically missed by 90% of the posters here.

By: sNaKe

sNaKe — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:53:39 +0000

No, tardboy, because I tested it on other machines on the same line

By: Nick de Bruyne

Nick de Bruyne — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:27:39 +0000

Was someone charging you by the word when you read the article? :ninja:

By: james

james — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:15:11 +0000

WOW, as someone above already said. PC GAMING sucks because your MAC Cant install the game??

Epic fail article