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<blockquote data-quote="LiquidFreon" data-source="post: 128427" data-attributes="member: 1627"><p>Maybe on the Klingon home world, but here on Earth such is not the case. Let's see, I had a Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Coleco Vision, Nintendo, SNES, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Sega Genesis, Sega 32x, Dreamcast, XBox, Xbox 360, PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox One, WiiU. Thats just the consoles ive owned over the years. Bought my first PC a from Gateway when i was around 20 years old to play Kingpin Life of Crime. Later bought an overpriced Alienware. Much later learned how to build my own computer. Right now i'm on my second built computer now i7 Haswell 4770K with a GTX 780 which eats anything i throw at it and demands seconds. Have bought 100's of titles from Doom, Quake, Sims, Spiderman titles, Batman titles, RPG titles (Not MMORPG), RIFT (MMORPG), Tomb Raider. Are there pirates? Sure there is in every thing. You have Somali pirates, you also have pirates who pirate PS3 with Duplex and XBox with some other firmware. You have emulators like Dolphin and other ones for the consoles of yesteryear. You have Pirates who Pirate games for the jail broken Iphones and Ipads, and Nexus as well. There is a slew of AAA titles coming out on PC from Tom Clancy to EA, to Square, to Konami, to Capcom, to Zen Studios, to TPA, to many more that elude me right now. Are their Indies also? Yes, because there is room and space for everyone just like there are Indies on consoles. Where ever there is money to be made, someone will be there.</p><p></p><p>Tired of hearing people say, I'm a gamer because i use Consoles or I use PC, or I use an Ipad or i use my windshield wipers to pass the dirt from one side to the other. Whatever medium you use makes you and everyone else a gamer. Neither PC is dead, nor Console's, nor handhelds, nor anything else electronic or otherwise. Those that try to elevate one medium over the other because they can't afford to play on anything else but their phone or console or PC are delusional, sound desperate and foolish. You even have the "Steam Machine" which is a glorified computer with a different OS coming out now. Tell me again how the PC is going the way of the Dodo. Gaming is here to stay in all mediums for all taste and all levels of affordability. Even game boards like Parcheesi i'm sure are being played in some Amish house right now. Stop fearing the PC or Consoles or handhelds or whatever you DON'T play on. Embrace technology and expansion. I'm sure EA or Capcom or Konami or other high rated companies wish their competition would believe such nonsense and stop making games so they could scoop that niche market and make millions. PC gaming hasn't changed it has evolved to include more mediums of entertainment. It's time that "Gamers" evolve as well.</p><p></p><p>Also tired of the "Handout" attitude. The people that feel everything should be free because they can't afford it. Like some guy on another thread who was attacking TPA for releasing a free table because he found out he had to pay for the others. I guess Porsche is going out of business because no one wants fancy cars. Jalopys are in! Seriously your statistics on Nvidia and AMD are so laughable they border on trolling. Also your un-backed statistics & percentages was not pulled out of a magic hat but somewhere much darker and foreboding. Reading your post again almost gives me the impression that you pirate games and think its a good thing for the industry as a whole. Never had a problem with DRM and if a company feels they need to impose it on their product, i'm all for it. I don't leave the doors of my house open when im there or going shopping, i don't expect game developers to leave their hard work either. I'm curious to see how good the sales of Witcher 3 will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LiquidFreon, post: 128427, member: 1627"] Maybe on the Klingon home world, but here on Earth such is not the case. Let's see, I had a Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Coleco Vision, Nintendo, SNES, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Sega Genesis, Sega 32x, Dreamcast, XBox, Xbox 360, PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox One, WiiU. Thats just the consoles ive owned over the years. Bought my first PC a from Gateway when i was around 20 years old to play Kingpin Life of Crime. Later bought an overpriced Alienware. Much later learned how to build my own computer. Right now i'm on my second built computer now i7 Haswell 4770K with a GTX 780 which eats anything i throw at it and demands seconds. Have bought 100's of titles from Doom, Quake, Sims, Spiderman titles, Batman titles, RPG titles (Not MMORPG), RIFT (MMORPG), Tomb Raider. Are there pirates? Sure there is in every thing. You have Somali pirates, you also have pirates who pirate PS3 with Duplex and XBox with some other firmware. You have emulators like Dolphin and other ones for the consoles of yesteryear. You have Pirates who Pirate games for the jail broken Iphones and Ipads, and Nexus as well. There is a slew of AAA titles coming out on PC from Tom Clancy to EA, to Square, to Konami, to Capcom, to Zen Studios, to TPA, to many more that elude me right now. Are their Indies also? Yes, because there is room and space for everyone just like there are Indies on consoles. Where ever there is money to be made, someone will be there. Tired of hearing people say, I'm a gamer because i use Consoles or I use PC, or I use an Ipad or i use my windshield wipers to pass the dirt from one side to the other. Whatever medium you use makes you and everyone else a gamer. Neither PC is dead, nor Console's, nor handhelds, nor anything else electronic or otherwise. Those that try to elevate one medium over the other because they can't afford to play on anything else but their phone or console or PC are delusional, sound desperate and foolish. You even have the "Steam Machine" which is a glorified computer with a different OS coming out now. Tell me again how the PC is going the way of the Dodo. Gaming is here to stay in all mediums for all taste and all levels of affordability. Even game boards like Parcheesi i'm sure are being played in some Amish house right now. Stop fearing the PC or Consoles or handhelds or whatever you DON'T play on. Embrace technology and expansion. I'm sure EA or Capcom or Konami or other high rated companies wish their competition would believe such nonsense and stop making games so they could scoop that niche market and make millions. PC gaming hasn't changed it has evolved to include more mediums of entertainment. It's time that "Gamers" evolve as well. Also tired of the "Handout" attitude. The people that feel everything should be free because they can't afford it. Like some guy on another thread who was attacking TPA for releasing a free table because he found out he had to pay for the others. I guess Porsche is going out of business because no one wants fancy cars. Jalopys are in! Seriously your statistics on Nvidia and AMD are so laughable they border on trolling. Also your un-backed statistics & percentages was not pulled out of a magic hat but somewhere much darker and foreboding. Reading your post again almost gives me the impression that you pirate games and think its a good thing for the industry as a whole. Never had a problem with DRM and if a company feels they need to impose it on their product, i'm all for it. I don't leave the doors of my house open when im there or going shopping, i don't expect game developers to leave their hard work either. I'm curious to see how good the sales of Witcher 3 will be. [/QUOTE]
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