Sulibres 说:
No kidding. Just head over to Thailand and Malaysia, enter one of the well known bootleg malls and you'll discover that pirated console games outnumber pirated PC games.
Same over here. Any of the Newspaper classified pages or the advert listing magazines will carry a plethora of ads for console chipping services.
Nemeo 说:
I don't see what you guys have against TQ and Iron Lore.
Nobody actually said anything against either the game or the publisher
Titan Quest isn't a bad game, however when you're releasing into a market which is already flooded with similar titles merely being a good game isn't enough, you need to stand out.
After Diablo 2 I really felt a need for a new game of this genre a failed to find one. Name just one, maybe I searched in the wrong direction.
When Titan Quest hit the shelves for the grand sum of thirty quid you also had the following games to choose from : The Complete Diablo boxed set; fifteen quid, Diablo 2 + Expansion; ten quid, Dungeon Siege + Legends of Aranna; ten quid, Sacred Gold (Sacred Plus + Sacred Underworld); fifteen quid, Sacred Plus; ten quid, Dungeon Siege 2; twenty quid. Then there was the hybrids like Spellforce. There were plenty more, but those were the 'big name' competitors which were still in most stores at the time. There's a whole bunch of games in a similar vein that few people will have heard of, let alone bought.
Console piracy requires more hardware, which is difficult to sell here. But since they don't have a grip over the internet (yet), PC games are much more likely to get pirated.
Bollocks. You'll see as many pirated console games as you will PC games. As for piracy itself, all you need on a console is a firmware update, something which you can do yourself if you know how to connect the USB cable between the PC and the Xbox. What's more, chipping and firmware altering services are perfectly legal in Europe, and last time I checked it would cost me twenty quid and three days to get a 360 done.
The issue is game prices, but all you have to do is to wait for the prices to go down.
On the PC I have access to several thousand free games, the whole shareware market plus of course the price of PC games goes down too. I also have access to most of the games I've bought since 1995, something which you don't get with a console.
For the actual figures, using the price of newly released games at GAME, if I buy three games per month I'm saving £20 with a PC. Over the five years a console generally lasts, that's £1200. Assuming I pay £1000 for a PC capable of running the latest games that leaves a good £6 - 800 above the difference in price of my PC versus a console, and you can get a hell of a lot of upgrades for that money.
Then consider the price of replacement. If your DVD drive goes on your Xbox when it's out of warranty, you need to buy a whole new Xbox. I can pick up a new DVD drive for a tenner for my PC.
No one is going to ***** about his quad core not being supported or sli not working properly or whatever crap people are buying.
No, but console games are just as buggy as PC games, and they're a lot harder to fix. Instead you get people asking why their save games from their friends copy of the game, or a rented game, are saying they're incompatible with the version of the game they bought. Vice City is a good example, it went through three revisions on the Xbox purely because Microsoft refused permission for Rockstar to patch it.
A mouse is more precise (I tryed counter-strike with a gamepad but my friends started to complain about how ****ty my skills were. But with a little more exercice, who knows? 
). But one can still enjoy a fps with a controller. Maybe it is that I'm not really into competing against other people online. I'm more into coop thing. 
