Board 8 > This poll's results speak volumes

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1. Gamers embrace digital distribution
2. ...done right (Steam, PSN, XBLA) and without charging money for 20-year-old roms (lol Nintendo)
3. Steam and PSN beating XBLA shows that people want to see a real price, not dumbass points
4. Steam would be kicking even more ass if this wasn't such an anti-PC site

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pc games cost too muhc to keep up with

i can buy a console like a ps3 for 399 bucks and last me 4-6 years. I can buy a pc and have to continue to upgrade it for the best results and not get much for 600.

It's not anti pc, it's smart.

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Swifticuffs posted...

pc games cost too muhc to keep up with

i can buy a console like a ps3 for 399 bucks and last me 4-6 years. I can buy a pc and have to continue to upgrade it for the best results and not get much for 600.

It's not anti pc, it's smart.

*plays Diablo III on maximum settings on his 4-year-old computer*

It's smart to know that you won't always be playing hardware-pushing games on your PC, as a matter of fact, most of the time you won't be.

Also, Steam sales. PC gaming is cheap.

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*tries to play a 2D game on my 5-year-old PC*

*the graphics can't be displayed*

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I wish my PC could run Diablo III. I'm forced to use my brother's gaming laptop if I ever want to play it :(

At least I can play Ys Origin hooray

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Raka_Putra posted...

*tries to play a 2D game on my 5-year-old PC*

*the graphics can't be displayed*

Sometimes, it's not the machine, it's the user...

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PC gaming is much cheaper than consoles if anything, you're basically buying another computer to pay $60 for games while steam offers stupidly good discounts

Vlado just curious

do you go to the PotD board at all?

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facepaImer posted...

Vlado just curious

do you go to the PotD board at all?

Hadn't been there in a while. Before, it looked like they didn't actually discuss polls or gaming much, but I looked now and I was surprised. Maybe I'll start checking it more often.

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Liquid Wind posted...

PC gaming is much cheaper than consoles if anything, you're basically buying another computer to pay $60 for games while steam offers stupidly good discounts

Yep.

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From: Liquid Wind | #007

PC gaming is much cheaper than consoles if anything, you're basically buying another computer to pay $60 for games while steam offers stupidly good discounts

Quite so, yeah.

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From: Vlado | #006

Raka_Putra posted...

*tries to play a 2D game on my 5-year-old PC*

*the graphics can't be displayed*

Sometimes, it's not the machine, it's the user...

The hell, are you implying that I'm a braindead backwater baboon?! That's unnecessarily mean.

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I also tried it on my mother's less-than-1-year-old notebook and the same thing happened, FYI.

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Raka_Putra posted...

From: Vlado | #006

Raka_Putra posted...

*tries to play a 2D game on my 5-year-old PC*

*the graphics can't be displayed*

Sometimes, it's not the machine, it's the user...

The hell, are you implying that I'm a braindead backwater baboon?! That's unnecessarily mean.

Not at all. :)

But if you require some help regarding this case, perhaps you could elaborate. Otherwise, I don't know why you posted that.

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Security is apparently not a big concern for people, either.

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From: Vlado | #014

Raka_Putra posted...

From: Vlado | #006

Sometimes, it's not the machine, it's the user...

The hell, are you implying that I'm a braindead backwater baboon?! That's unnecessarily mean.

Not at all. :)

But if you require some help regarding this case, perhaps you could elaborate. Otherwise, I don't know why you posted that.

Well, that'd be lovely.

The game is called Ougon Musou Kyoku. The game runs just fine and I can hear the sound and all, but the graphics just won't come up for some reason. I've checked and my laptop's graphic card is built-in so I can't upgrade it. I've tried upgrading the driver but it didn't change anything.

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Hm... Just checked the system requirements and they're quite low.

Have you downloded the latest video drivers, upgraded Direct X to the latest version and everything?

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Yeah if its a low requirement 2D game then you are doing something wrong on your end.

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My 4 years old laptop can still run most of today's game.

And it's a laptop.

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If you buy some non-gaming laptop it will probably have the absolute worst integrated graphics card ever, yeah.

Get a desktop and you can spend 500 dollars like I have and be able to play every game of the past 5 years without worrying about having to update anything.

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I couldn't really answer this poll because I don't know what I spent the most money on. It could be Steam, PSN, or maybe 3DS. I bought a number of games on each (Despite the 3DS' store being stupid in multiple ways, it has a good enough library to make up for it.)

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Aecioo posted...

If you buy some non-gaming laptop it will probably have the absolute worst integrated graphics card ever, yeah.

Get a desktop and you can spend 500 dollars like I have and be able to play every game of the past 5 years without worrying about having to update anything.

Hi, I did the former, and it f***ing sucks.

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From: Vlado | #017

Hm... Just checked the system requirements and they're quite low.

Have you downloded the latest video drivers, upgraded Direct X to the latest version and everything?

I've tried those, but yeah my laptop isn't a gaming laptop.

Thought about getting one but I've just bought a PSP and I have to save money for a bit.

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Sorry, man. But if your mom's is not even 1 year old, it should be able to run it. Unless it's a netbook or something like that.

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Yeah, it is a netbook, not notebook, my bad. All these techy lingos - laptops, desktops, notebooks, netbooks - I just can't keep track of it.

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From: Vlado | #001

3. Steam and PSN beating XBLA shows that people want to see a real price, not dumbass points
4. Steam would be kicking even more ass if this wasn't such an anti-PC site

Why do you associate Steam's placement with "anti-PC" sentiment but also ignore the possibility of "anti-Xbox" sentiment for XBLA?

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From: Vlado | #001
2. ...done right (Steam, PSN, XBLA) and without charging money for 20-year-old roms (lol Nintendo)

I think Microsoft put some of the old Sonic games on Xbox Live Arcade.

And if Sony had joined the game business earlier they would definitely have 20 year old roms on PSN.

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This poll's results prove remarkably little, actually.

The Wii is a dying platform. I'd expect a "how much money have you spent on boxed games" poll to still cause the Wii to lose. (Maybe lose less badly). If people aren't turning on the system, then of course they're not buying from the online store.

The other three platforms are basically tied......and probably SFFing each other, but it's anyone's guess on whom might be SFFing whom. Hard to draw any conclusions.

And sure, most people have bought something online...but there's a lot of games only available through online purchase. (Like megaman 9, to name one that showed up in a GF contest). It's still possible to have primarily boxed purchases while having at least one online transaction in the past year.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Yeah, it is a netbook, not notebook, my bad. All these techy lingos - laptops, desktops, notebooks, netbooks - I just can't keep track of it.

That's alright, man. Netbooks can still run a lot of older stuff, I think including PS1 and N64 games. But that game may be outside reach, I guess.

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My netbook can't even run binding of isaac well. It's a terribly optimized flash game, but still. They're just not designed for any sort of processing power at all. They are comparable to smartphones with a bigger screen and keyboard.

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1. Gamers embrace digital distribution

You are reading too much into that. Just because they've spent the most on a particular service doesn't mean that they've 'embraced' digital distribution. If they've spent $5.00 for an Indy game, and nothing else, then they've spent the most money on that service.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3079
76% of people polled on this site basically say that digital distribution is only 'okay' or worse. Which is far from embracing it.

2. ...done right (Steam, PSN, XBLA) and without charging money for 20-year-old roms (lol Nintendo)

If anything I think it goes to show that a lot of digital purchases ARE Indy games and the like. I'm not sure if Nintendo has any Indy games available. Most of their games are, as you've stated, re-releases.

3. Steam and PSN beating XBLA shows that people want to see a real price, not dumbass points

Then what about this poll:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4487

While I personally prefer real prices too, I don't think that it matters too much to most people. That XBOX Live is keeping up pretty well seems to suggest that it doesn't matter, rather than that it does.

4. Steam would be kicking even more ass if this wasn't such an anti-PC site

Anti-PC? People keep saying that, but I don't get it. PC gaming isn't the most popular type of gaming on the site, but I'm not sure how that makes the site Anti-PC.

42% of the site owns a gaming capable PC that plays most or every game
73% of the site owns a gaming capable PC, but not a more recent one

63-69% own a Wii (Depending on which poll you use)
60-63% own a PS3 (depending on which poll you use)
55-58% own a 360 (Depending on which poll you use)

Less popular sometimes is just less popular.

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Steam would be kicking ass if their deals weren't so good. I've bought more games on Steam over the past year, but surely haven't spent the most money there!

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