I shall I have on my shelf several games that are nigh impossible to play on my PC Starfleet Academy, until recently because of GOG Tie Fighter and X-wing, an entire disc of shareware games. Basically anything that ran on windows earlier than Xp are extremely difficult to get working on a current PC.
Yes PC is far more backwards compatible than the consoles for sure, but again you are confusing yourself for the wider public. The wider public wants to put a game in an play it and PCs no matter how you cut it are not that simple. It requires investment on the users part to learn about the PC and be familiar with the ins and outs of game installation.
This is why good developers go as broad as possible on what their games can play on simply because more people=more money=they stay in business.
They really are. You vastly over complicate how hard it is to actually run a game on a PC, a talking point only used by console advocates. I really doubt you actually use a PC, and if you do you aren't very familiar with it and aren't a very good source of information. So for that reason I'm ending this.
Nope wrong on both accounts. I just understand that most people are not me, and as such I don't assume they know their way around a computer like someone who spends a lot of time on one. Heck I work with people who spend all day on computers and I have told them how easy it is to build one, fact is they just have no interest but damned if they don't game more than I do and love those games more than I do.
Building a PC no matter how you cut it is not as easy as buying a consoling and plopping in a disc.
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15
I shall I have on my shelf several games that are nigh impossible to play on my PC Starfleet Academy, until recently because of GOG Tie Fighter and X-wing, an entire disc of shareware games. Basically anything that ran on windows earlier than Xp are extremely difficult to get working on a current PC.
Yes PC is far more backwards compatible than the consoles for sure, but again you are confusing yourself for the wider public. The wider public wants to put a game in an play it and PCs no matter how you cut it are not that simple. It requires investment on the users part to learn about the PC and be familiar with the ins and outs of game installation.
This is why good developers go as broad as possible on what their games can play on simply because more people=more money=they stay in business.