Atarifever wrote:ptdebate wrote:When I read the title of this thread, I expected you to complain about software issues, because that's my biggest gripe about PC gaming--namely, the fact that it's tethered to Windows, a horrible operating system.
Actually, if it was about anything besides real, physical headaches, it'd be about most of the PC gaming community. I once did a thread somewhere asking if anyone else had weak hardware and wanted to talk about games. I got a ton of replies, all saying "get a real computer, noob" or "better for you to just get a console if you're not going to use a real computer." Another time I said I wished Steam had a way to enter or detect system settings to only show you games you could play. I had to go very in depth explaining over many pages that I was not saying Steam should lower system specs generally, which was assumed as I must just be a contrarian who "should just go buy a proper PC and stop trying to ruin it for everyone." And don't get me started on piracy with those guys. Apparently, piracy only exists because of DRM, and really, if you have to sell your games to make money on them, man, you're just doing it wrong. You have to make a free game, or people will steal it, but don't put transactions in it, or people will hate it and not buy it, but don't release it physically, because that's stupid, and don't make it cheap, because it needs to be optimized. It's simple really. Just make free games to give away and work at McDonalds.
Yeah, all of that stuff is the reason why I prefer the console gaming community (particularly, this forum and its members).
Despite my support for and enjoyment of some DLC, I still like to think of videogames as finite creative products rather than services you pay for based on your level of "usage," that release incomplete and change tremendously over time.
I am also an advocate of using the oldest and lowest-spec hardware that still meets your needs rather than blindly following the latest technology, which is a waste of money at best and a strain on the environment at worst.