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On PC Battlefield 1943

Message to the PC Gamer(s) Following BF1943's Development on the EA Forums follows-up on the reaction to news that the PC edition of Battlefield 1943 will trail the console versions by a couple of months. The post by DICE's Gordon Van Dyke reassures PC gamers that "this is to give us the proper development time to create a proper PC version of Battlefield 1943 and not a console port. To the contrary of some less informed fans out there this is in no means an intentional ploy to punish our PC fans. And is in fact quite the opposite, we want to make the best damn PC version we can for our PC fans!" He refers to PCs "requiring additional features, support, technical consideration, and can't just be thrown out there using copy/paste." On that topic, Planet Battlefield (thanks Ant) relates a translation of a Swedish interview revealing that DICE is considering dropping some console features for the PC editions, taking a hard look at regenerating health, regenerating ammo, and the 24-player limit for multiplayer games.

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49. Re: On PC Battlefield 1943 Apr 27, 2009, 13:26 Verno
 
At some point people will have to accept that PC games aren't making enough money to justify PC exclusive versions. There are some exceptions and some big blockbuster titles but even many of these are getting multiplatform releases. It's not just a console vs PC thing, it's that publishers don't want to make just console or just PC titles, they want them on both to maximize profits.

Whether this requires dumbing down or not is totally on a game by game basis. Just because something is multiplatform does not make it inherently awful. That's like saying all DLC is bad because horse armor was. Yes there have been some bad multiplatform releases, that doesn't mean they will all be horrible. Especially in this case the devs are going out of their way to remove console specific features for PC gamers.

You get your cake, you eat it too then you bitch about it. This is why the PC gaming community sucks. Bunch of self entitled little babies, always demanding more more more and wanting it cheaper. If they included a sack of money with the game I am sure people would still complain that they got large bills instead of twenties.

Third, I don't reward developers for developing games that are actually worse than their previous work. DICE is pulling some pretty heavy bullshit excuses in that PC Gamer preview, saying among other things that BF1943 isn't a casual game, it's just easily accessible. Which is, of course, complete marketing bullshit. The only argument they have for separating the former term from the latter is "your mom won't be able to play it". That's a ridiculous statement.

About as ridiculous as condemning this game when you have not even played it. If they were saying "hey we're keeping this crap in" then I can see some people getting upset but that's not even the case here.

This comment was edited on Apr 27, 2009, 13:29.
 
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