PC piracy levels are "astounding" says Call of Duty 4 Developer

[fumanchu]

so if you were to buy a top of the range with the very best of everything,what kind of price would you be looking at?(roughly).

[Diso]

I don't think people realize that PC gaming isn't really that much more expensive than console gaming.

 

Seriously, Start running your games at 640X480 like your console does, I bet even your 5 year old PC can instantly handle anything again.

 

Even now with HD games, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, That isn't crap as far as PC games are concerned. No crap a machine playing the game at 2560X1600 is going to require more hardware and money. Even 1600X1200 is a decent jump over 1080p (not that p and i even matter in the PC world!)

 

I agree with what was said before though, There is next to no good games coming out anymore, and I don't pay for crap. I DO buy good games though (especially if I want to play online, I'm not going to deal with all the cracking/risks of playing pirated stuff online)

 

^agreed.

There's not much need to max out everything unless you really like seeing all those graphics. Otherwise, old gen cards can run recent games pretty decently. You're not really required to upgrade every time a new card/processor comes out so it saves some money before you have to upgrade again.

 

In my opinion though, although you get used games with console gaming and I'm not sure if that exists with PC gaming besides through amazon and such, the prices for PC games go down significantly faster than console games. That and there's usually a buttload of special deals that cause PC games to lower their price.

 

Also, pirating does some good in this age where you can't tell if a game will be good or not anymore. I buy games that have a huge replayability/story. Ironically enough, I did play COD4 while pirated, but I have the official game now because I love the game alot. Whereas some guys you might pay for and then find out that there are numerous bugs with the game because it was rushed or underdeveloped (aka black screen where your character just falls to his death INFINITELY in Spiderman Friend or Foe). The problem with PC games I have atm is that a lot of them (especially RPGs/Dungeon Crawls) usually have a load of bugs. I think it's ridiculous to buy a game for about $50 and then find out it's somewhat unplayable to the number of bugs (Titan's Quest had like 9 patches within a month whereas NWN2 I heard from my friend had a load of patches on the day it was Released.)

 

I thought that this past winter was pretty good for PC gamers. There were good games that made gamers put faith in the gaming department again to buy the actual game (COD4, Orange Box, Crysis, etc.). I hope the quality of these games stays that way; otherwise, PC games will continue downhill like before.

[Wizard]

NWN2's engine is pretty refined (after 10 patches) at the moment, but it mostly has to do with quests and in game stuff that may or may not explode your game. I've encountered nothing game breaking thus far with NWN2 as I did with NWN1.