Comments on: PCGA: PC Very Big, Actually (Also Different)

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:55:50 +0000

Well I would guess that some of that WoW money is funding Starcraft II (even Koreans must have stopped buying SC1, right?) and a lot of it is funding Diablo 3 and their other MMO. I think WoW’s permanent development staff probably outnumbers every other mmo ever, with the possible exception of Lineage.

By: TheDeadlyShoe

TheDeadlyShoe — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:39:01 +0000

Bobsy: Perhaps it’s just me, but WoW doesn’t seem to have any more (or less) content than any other mature MMO, even counting two paid expansions. *shrug*

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:10:32 +0000

Well Dezza, at the very least this has managed pretty big mainstream coverage, and with that I guess could come investment. Good ol’ PR, eh?

By: dsmart

dsmart — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:50:39 +0000

If those ladies over at PCGA are only going to be shoving reports under our collective asses instead of actually doing something worth talking about, then PC gaming really is doomed.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, PCGA is pure bullshit and a joke (on someone) – at best. And they’re just as funny a Microsoft supporting PC gaming – then they go and prove it by unleashing Games For Windows Live and subsequently shuttering all their PC game dev studios (Alan Wake is a third party game).

PC gaming is just fine. It always will be.

In any business, you win some you lose some. Those clamouring that nonsense are those on the losing end – usually sparked by foolish decisions and wanton acts of corporate suicide.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:10:01 +0000

And the sequel to that one!

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:43:24 +0000

man… 1 billion a year?

Where’s it all going? Blizzard could swamp every other MMO on the market with free content expansions with that sort of money. But they don’t. Bleargh.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting here, but… isn’t that exactly what they’re doing?

Oh, and for ponies: click, you knave.

By: redrain85

redrain85 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:08:00 +0000

For $11 billion you’d better be able to buy a heck of a lot of ponies, not just one. A whole farm of ponies. Then you could open a petting zoo, and make more billions. Sounds like a plan. :)

@Andrew:

I thought epic thought the PC was a bust wat with Cliffy B bein silly and declaring it dead and then not releasing GOW 2 on the PC?

I think Epic have learned their lesson, as evidenced by the massive UT3 patch and Titan Pack. Or, at least I hope so, anyway.

No, it wasn’t the PC gamers who let you down, Epic. You let them down.

@Rich_P:

catska is undoubtedly RPS’s most useless poster.

Amen.

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:20:42 +0000

You know, those ponipocolypses are getting old.

That one shotgun packing marine must be getting tired. I mean, hell ponies, cyborg ponies…

We don’t pay our nation’s Space Marine enough.

By: Tuor

Tuor — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:15:44 +0000

Where is all the money going? I’ll tell you where it is going. It’s going to fund the Pony Instrumentality Project. We will all be rendered back into the primordial soup from which life originally sprang, and then one pony will redefine life and reality itself, creating a new world in which to live: a Pony World, in which we will all cease to be individuals, but rather part of one vast Poniestic Universe.

By: TheDeadlyShoe

TheDeadlyShoe — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:43:07 +0000

man… 1 billion a year?

Where’s it all going? Blizzard could swamp every other MMO on the market with free content expansions with that sort of money. But they don’t. Bleargh.

I guess there’s only so many people you can put on a software project without them working at cross purposes.

By: Rosti

Rosti — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:28:12 +0000

To be clear (whilst not outright killing a mediocre joke): there’s 20 GB ponies to the GB monkey.

By: jalf

jalf — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:41:54 +0000

@Andrew: The answer might be that CliffyB doesn’t run Epic alone. There might be other people in the company who do have an interest in the PC. But you’re right, it does seem a bit odd. Maybe their membership just haven’t expired yet. :p

After all, Microsoft is on the list too, and their idea of “supporting the PC” is to put everything on 360, and then port to PC a year or two later.