Comments on: LucasArts On Star Wars And PC Development

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:47:55 +0000

Right on Grizzly, you hit the nail on the head! We’re the ones that put Lucas Arts on the map in the first place and then they abandon us. They’re now coming out with some crappy port over and the way I see it, is that they can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. I have bought EVERY Star Wars game since the release of X-wing and I am sick of being shoved in the back of the line. I know that you did not want to knock Console gamers, but back in the day the console was known as the “poor man’s PC”. Yes things are different now, but it’s the PC gamer that is decicating thousand of dollars everytime we upgrade to a new system. So who is th real enthusist here? Someone that buys a console because they can’t afford to purchase the best hardware, or the PC gamer that tricks out his/her system for the very best graphics and smoothest possible framerate? A lot of people (like myself), take personal pride and dedicated not just the money, but the time it took to learn how to properly build their own systems from scratch. We are the ones that made these companies like Lucas Arts the Powerhouses they are today, not console gamers.

By: fryer

fryer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:13:29 +0000

someone said here that they are basically saying that the ds is more powerful than the pc. lmao. They shud just be honest and say it wudnt be cost efficient to produce the game for pc. Anyway why wud games like world of warcraft and warhammer be produced if there was no great market there? and the fact the people can play those games, yet cant play this game oh but the ds can? some retard at lucas arts needs the sack.

By: Anach

Anach — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:05:08 +0000

That logic doesnt make sense. They are essentially saying that the lesser console players are used to their games performing up to a certain standard. So are lesser PC players generally.

$2000 gets most people a fairly good upgrade to their PC, unless they are buying a complete off the shelf package each time.

By: Lavitz

Lavitz — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:37:43 +0000

I was really hoping someone would interview LucasArts about this and find out why there is no pc version and i was hoping they would have a good reason. Well they gave us there reason, i don’t know what to make of it. No point in saying WTF are you retarded so ill just let it be and hopefully i run into a LucasArts employee so i can give him a piece of mind in RL.

By: Cibbuano

Cibbuano — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:22:55 +0000

Ging says:

I’ll forgive them if they do a version of Tie Fighter with new graphics…

And I’ll forgive them if they do a Anakin-Padme Love Simulator (press ‘Q’ to say ‘I love you’, W to say ‘That’s because I’m so in love with you.’ and E to say ‘No, that’s because I’m so in love with you)

By: trunk3h

trunk3h — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:47:46 +0000

This is what they are really saying imo

“where not launching to PC right away / at all because we are concerned that we will lose sales from other platforms due the the avaliability of pirated PC copy”

This has nothing to do with the varation in pc systems capability. Its PR, as once you’ve made a sale on a title it doesnt matter how well it actually plays after that.

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:58:42 +0000

I mentally filter alienware out, mate.
they were crap waaaaaay before dell bought them out.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:33:42 +0000

Awww… no one picked up the fun Alienware flame there with me. It’s the only PC i know without professional quality 3D card that costs more than $2000. And the only PC where the case costs more than components. (it can’t all be air, right? RIGHT?!)

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:05:30 +0000

something that I have been noticing for quite a while now is the prevalence amongst people at about the age of 13 to 18 is that in order to be called a hardcore PC gamer you need to have a £2000 or above PC.

Yes, gone are the days when hardcore gamers used to talk about their ingame achievements and how they took such a low spec’d machine, overclocked the tits off of it and got it to run the latest games.

The “new” hardcore gaming scene is entirely consumer driven rather than skill and knowledge based.

weep for the future na’toth… Oops, wrong theme ;)

By: Xaero

Xaero — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:36:51 +0000

One of the worst game dev excuses EVER.

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:24:26 +0000

What’s with the sense of entitlement? Why does LucasArts owe us a PC port?

Claiming gaming rigs cost $4000 is FUD; he should spare us from the bull and flat-out say “we only want to develop for closed platform” or “a PC port would not be profitable for us.”

And I agree with cliffski: more studios should treat the PC as its own platform and not as a recepticle for shoddy ports of months-old console games. Maybe that’s why they’re not releasing a PC version: it would be incompatible with the console design?

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:44 +0000

He wanted a mass market game but doing an ngage version?

Seriously can you get any more bold face lies?