id On RAGE "Cluster!@#$" and Lead Platforms [Oct 07, 2011, 9:33 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Kotaku asks the musical question "Why Was The PC Launch of Rage Such A "Cluster!@#$"?," 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."
DNForever wrote on Oct 8, 2011, 12:39:
Maybe I'm not seeing all sides because I don't have an ATI card, but I find it hard to share all this anger.
I'm sorry, but you say you can't see all sides because you don't have an ATI card. Are you completely fucking retarded that you cannot sympathize with those that do? Apparently you are since you make the comment..
You have to just detach yourself from it all. Play the game or not, like them or not. Then get on with your shit.
They have my $60. It's been 5 days and I CAN'T PLAY THE FUCKING GAME!
So if you want to give me $60 back, then fork it over. Otherwise, shut the fuck up since you are incapable of recognizing that thousands of people are completely incapable of playing the game.
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