elefunk wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 20:27:
buhh.....you realize that this has never once actually happened, right? There has not been a single game ever released where the distribution platform you buy the game through has its own separately and entirely siloed multiplayer infrastructure.
Huh? You were unlucky enough to purchase a game before a sale went on and then expected them to revert your purchase to the sale price, after the fact? Do brick and mortar stores really do this?
My one complaint about steam. I bought Dragon Age, it went on sale 4 days later, they would not give me the sale price. That would never happen with a brick and mortar purchase. Steam deleted and never used again.
Frankly, I don't like that console players can't play with PC users, and vice versa.
HugeJerk wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 19:27:
Ideally, a Steam Game should be able to invite players from the Steam Friends List as well as GFWL and vice-versa.
Marvin T. Martian wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 19:30:Too bad reality disagrees with your view.
Ditch both, release a game on a disk and the masses will come.
If Steam and Live want the game--have them play tons of money to carry it.
HugeJerk wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 19:27:buhh.....you realize that this has never once actually happened, right? There has not been a single game ever released where the distribution platform you buy the game through has its own separately and entirely siloed multiplayer infrastructure.
Did you guys even visit the link to read the full quote? He's talking about if you buy a game on Steam, you can't play against the guy that bought the GFWL version, and the Store Bought version might have something entirely different that doesn't allow matchmaking to work with either.
Well actually, just too bad for you. Thank the fucking lord digital distribution has taken the path it has with Steam!
He's absolutely correct in that having too much separation for matchmaking services for one game will hurt the purchasers. Ideally, a Steam Game should be able to invite players from the Steam Friends List as well as GFWL and vice-versa.
Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 17:56:
I'm not sure why Blues did a literal transcription of what that Gibson guy said. Makes the guy look pretty dumb although transcriptions more often than not look messed up.
Anyway, I think the guy is correct in what he said. Join forces and let the PC blow the console industry away! Viva la revolution!
ASeven wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 15:17:^^^ I second that.
Competition is always good to the market, regardless of what some clueless devs say. Saying that, GfWL is an abomination and Steam already won the battle but I hope Steam never gets a full monopoly of the market and other distribution venues like D2D, GamersGate and the like never disappear. Not having competition is the sure way to see any market slowly die in terms of good prices and quality of product.
Muscular Beaver wrote on Oct 10, 2010, 17:50:
Steam that it will only bring PC gamers more chains to their hands/feet. And it did.