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tbh the way games vs broadband speed improvements it wont be long before the DVD / Blue ray will be obsolete and everyone will just download games directly from the developers

We already see it with Steam and PSN and even to some degree on Xbox Live.

It's easy to see what they're doing.

Retailers left PC gaming for dead in the 00s, gamers collectively said "**** you" and turned Steam (and by extension Valve and more indie studies than I can count) into one of the biggest gaming success stories of this console generation.

For the most part (I know exceptions exist and i'm sure someone will be along to list them all) on Steam you can get new copies of old games at used prices (so there's no real reason to go through a third party for trading used games, not that you could ever do that very well with PC games to begin with, but still...), and those games are tied to your account so there's no disc hunting ordeals if you need to reinstall or change computers. If MS can bring this kind of a distribution model to the next XBox it'll be a sure winner, they already have the best online service of all the consoles.

Redbox in the US rocks. Who is dumb enough to pay 60 dollars for 5 hours of game play? I get it for 2 bucks finished COD in 5 6 hours over the weekend. Their online PVP sucks anyway hard.

Cost = 4 bucks

CCP making Dust PS3 only is so silly to make it suck on that grounds alone. If they would have made it multi-platform including PC they would get better results. I am not buying a PS3 to play Dust. PC hell yeah because FPS are better on PC platform.

There is no SOPA if people would stop thinking they have rights to other people's hard work. Just more entitlement mentality, it exists so it must be mine! Who cares about rules and laws I just want it! I want to cry about it when draconian laws are passed.

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You can't make copies of said book or pass it off as your own to sell it. You can sell it again because it's second hand goods, but the IP isn't yours to sell. But I digress and I agree on most parts with you. 2nd hand sales are legitimate trade. The only reason this works in the software/gaming industry is because laws are passed by people ignorant of how technology works, and the industry has a measure of control.

1998 Called and it wants your opinion back. Why do people keep repeating this parrot fashion? FPS on consoles outsell PC releases by tens of millions*. Do not try the "keyboard and mouse" crap, aiming is fine on the console.

If you where not so blinkered and inflexible you would realise there's a difference. Control on a PC FPS is about aiming, on consoles its about timing. It changes the gameplay style, its a slightly different approach but it still requires skill.

If you don't get that and understand what I mean there's no hope for you.

*Even if you count piracy consoles still shift more units

You'd be surprised. Given that I don't have any interest in any system after the PS3/360 generation, doing anything of this nature would be the last nail in the coffin. I'd stick to what I have and that would be it. I know more than a few people who feel the same way.

Your doing it wrong. Stop trying to put the cross hairs on the target, put the target in the cross hairs.

The guy you argue has a point, I have played FPS games for fun and in competitions both on PC and consoles for years. I started with PC (doom 1) way before I tried out console shooters starting with the first Xbox (halo1.) My conclusion is that both are valid and both offer different playstyles thus you can run into problems as well. If you play a shooter made for consoles, play it on consoles. MW2 and 3 etc are console shooters and work great on consoles, gears of war too and halo and some unreal games etc. When you try to play a PC game on a console **** happens, counter strike on consoles=****. Also battlefield for consolesis ****, but then again, not that great for PC either but whatever, studios wanna sell games for both consoles and PC these days even if one uses completly different controls.

Like selling a Wii game for PC and use mouse and keyboard would be a ******** thing, alsois it crap to play console made games for PC or vice versa if you are using wrong input device.

You have to change your playstyle when playing on consoles, when Iplay on a console I never focus my training on aiming, I really don't, I focus on timing, tactic/strategy and speed in target, run, jump, weapon switch and turn in the air while I still have eyes in my neck. Kinda feels more like the difference between playing Unreal tournament/quake arena compared to CS and cod etc. In UT your main focus is on pulling of the wall jumping, strafe jumping and combinations and getting power ups.

I can enjoy MW2/3 on consoles but on PC, no f'ing way, it blows compared to it. Also think of, why a person playing lets say assasins creed on PC but he does it with a 360 controller or whatever. Controls for a good tuned FPS with style geared towards a controller IE halo?! So I can't agree with the saying "FPS on consoles sucks, because of controller" it does work great and halo CE on PC does not compare well with halo 1 on xbox. Same goes for Wii and its controls with games made for it compared to similar game with different input. You cannot compare the 2, they are different and one has to judge based on the game itself, also you got a huge difference in network coding in CS:S and how it works compared to IE Halo, why? because ping is ******* 100+ in a console game, always, not sometimes, always and the host has fracking zero, like gears of war failed in that because whoever was the host would use the shotgun and always beat anyone 1on1 because of delay and coding while shotgun if you are not the host was not a great gun.

I can go on and on but I reccomend to get an idea of how different it is, check like cod blackops clan match (mlg perhaps) and compare to a CS:S competitive game.

I could go on and on and maybe explain it better but, meh.

Anyway, BF3 sucks and so does MW3