id On RAGE "Cluster!@#$" and Lead Platforms [Oct 07, 2011, 8:33 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Kotaku asks the musical question "Why Was The PC Launch of Rage Such A "Cluster!@#$"?," getting answers from id on the topic, who express frustration with problems that were largely caused by driver issues. Along the way they also address how the game being designed for consoles holds back the PC edition. "You can choose to design a game around the specs of a high-end PC and make console versions that fail to hit the design point, or design around the specs of the consoles and have a high-end PC provide incremental quality improvements," John Carmack tells them. "We chose the latter." He also bluntly addresses why this makes sense for id (emphasis Kotaku's):
"We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games," Carmack added. "That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version. A high end PC is nearly 10 times as powerful as a console, and we could unquestionably provide a better experience if we chose that as our design point and we were able to expend the same amount of resources on it. Nowadays most of the quality of a game comes from the development effort put into it, not the technology it runs on. A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases."
Dear Carmack,
Based on your statements you don't view PC platform or development for it as much of an importance yet you still want to charge same amount of money for PC version of the game as consoles. You cannot have it both ways sir. Kthx and in future dont release half assed version of the games.
Further, looks like ID Software finally is hitting the retirement moment, as you havent released any games since doom 3 and this project is really low quality compared to previous projects. As a long PC gamer I am highly dissapointed to see ID Software unable to make a good PC Game or even engine anymore. Sad moment.
Based on your statements you don't view PC platform or development for it as much of an importance yet you still want to charge same amount of money for PC version of the game as consoles. You cannot have it both ways sir. Kthx and in future dont release half assed version of the games.
Further, looks like ID Software finally is hitting the retirement moment, as you havent released any games since doom 3 and this project is really low quality compared to previous projects. As a long PC gamer I am highly dissapointed to see ID Software unable to make a good PC Game or even engine anymore. Sad moment.
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