Gemini Cuspid
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.05.15 07:46:00 -
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Frankly the posts and arguments have been a bit over the top. My PC would still be about $1k+ to build right now so I won't go into it. I did recently build a small gaming rig for my nephew for about $400 so I know its feasible. However PC gaming is NOT ALWAYS THE BEST and I think it really takes someone who has experience with all platforms to get that type of outlook.
The PC gives me performance, power and really the reliability to buy any game for years to come but it's also currently the highest costing platform to game on overall if I simply tried to do the "best cost of having title X on the PC". I'll get more into this later but overall my desktop is my mmo, graphics design and work-at-home device.
My Playstation is my main console unit more so than my brothers PS4; the PS Plus is the SOLE reason for this; in the half year I've had my membership have gotten Batman Arkham Asylum, Borderlands 2, Tomb Raider, Remember Me, Dragon's Dogma (to name a few titles) as part of my below $35 year sub fee. Whether I use Steam, aftermarket or gamefly I still paid far less. Having to pay $35 a year to do this is a good deal and the ability to demo some games for longer periods than what is available is great plus. It's also why I game mostly on the PS3, price wise its cheaper. If you think about gaming like a printer, the printer itself is the platform you're using (ie. PC, PS or Xbox) and the ink the games. In my case, the ink is cheapest for Playstation basically.
On the Xbox it's the gold subscription that irks me the most and only now having availability to Netflix and Hulu was a huge pain before. Also, even if cross platform titles were better looking on the Xbox, paying for it and the xbox gold was less than worth it. I ended up giving it away to my nephew.
That's really why I never looked at the whole Legion topic as PC versus Playstaiton; it's really has been a case for me of how Legion is going to be made and how it's hard to even trust as a game. It's built on ideas for Dust that haven't even proven effective and viable for Dust but we're still going to incorporate it into Legion? Add to the fact that it's going to initially decrease the playerbase with the number of ppl who will abandon it and then, if it's still like Dust's current model for new player growth, still no find a way to add more players it's even more mind boggling.
And if you stick to the concept that with the PC they can update things faster then it'd make more sense to have waited and created a planning phase first then move onto the coding phase and start with UE4 because it allows for faster updates and easier coding.
All of these points are beyond the "PC versus PS" argument; these are realistic problems that CCP hasn't shown at some level to be able to evolve from; we might still have proto stomping in more significant fashion in legion and that won't help the game grow overall and lobotomizing the PS3 gamers who only game on the PS3 and/or will not support Legion because of the recent events can't help CCP either. |