Who betrayed PC gaming the most?

I did

1. Microsoft
2. Crytek

Crytek jumped shipped because of piracy and other nonsense now they are scrambling to be relevant. But to be fair, the same PC gamers that praise Crysis are the same ones who blasted the game for its poor performance and its was ragged on for be unoptimized when it was released.

Microsoft has not been PC centric outside of a few games so the betrayal seems rather bewildering.

haha !!

Imho

1) Crytek

2) MS

and various other companies in lesser extent

EA should be listed also don't you think? I go for Microsoft

Yeah, a 100000x EA

@unrealgunner: Hmmmmmm. Debatable.

EA screwed over gamers almost since the beginning.

Betrayal would imply that they are indebted to PC, which none of them are so none.

@uninspiredcup: nice location by the way

Bethesda.

This is very true. That is why this betrayal is absolute nonsense.

Betrayal: Crytek

Jerks from the beginning: Microsoft

Wow, i really want to see the examples of betrayal from some peoples empty heads.

Uninspiredcup

Why people saying EA, most EA games are on pc and run well.

Looks like Microsoft is most baddest.

No Blizzard?

Blizzard are cool guys.

They can't because its all in their heads.

PC? lmfao

i actually did try to game on PC, realized how overrated and shityy the game library is and didnt take me long to go back to console gaming where gaming is superior and where games are actually interesting to me.

PC fanboys are so butthurt. For a supposed "master race" you guys spend a lot of time whining.

Games? Most things out a PC gamers mouth is frames, resolutions, death to consoles and gtx

ikr, its sad.

so let me see if i understand this right.

You went out and brought a gaming rig so you can have access to games you have no interest in?

LMFAO. Most games that are on the console are on the PC. So, stop typing bullshit.

I voted MS but now thinking about it they just don't know how to cater to PC gamers now. I voted bc they're sitting in some really great franchises.

But they have been releasing their big X1 exclusives on PC, but like I said they want to change PC gaming in a way it doesn't need to be changed.

So I'd rather go with Crytek. Even though Crysis was a little fun it was miles above Crysis 2. So much that I didn't even want to finish it and probably will never bother with 3 unless it's dirt cheap.

Crytek at least provides an engine for developers to use. However, as a game developer, Crytek took consolization of Crysis series to heart.

You mean "bought"? me? buying a PC rig to game? looool!

nah bruh, must be confusing me with someone else, all i got is a small laptop that can decently play some PC games but dont own a desktop PC and might not even build one for a very, very long time.

The word betrayed is misleading and the one's you listed OP are still bringing games to PC, it's just bad ports for the most parts but still, still supporting PC nonetheless.

Well that's the thing, the PC shills mostly trumpet the same games, just that they're better performing. When they're not borked that is.

The answer is MS btw, they shouldn't even bother with porting these games if they're going to quarter ass it.

PC doesn't need Microsoft's Xbone scraps.

valve and crytek in my book.

Blizzard didn't betray PC. They just betrayed their fanbase.

The "consumer", clearly.

cryteck!

started out small with those game engines that turns into far cry which sells millions on pc.

develop crysis which sells millions, ends up opening crytek studeos in UK, States, and ends up buying that timesplitters studeo with that money.

and then crysis 2 which is completely different to crysis 1 and farcry 1.

that doesnt sell millions on pc? and instead starts bitching about what pc gamers are, pirates blah blah. like chill out dude cryteck what else do u need from pc gamers?

Bungie

Can't blame MS for wanting its own gaming division. Anyway, MS still kept development of Direct X/Direct 3D going.

Bungie is the real turncoat.

None of those listed quit making games for the PC. Bungie did.

Or are most people here too young to remember that?

Wait, what?
Microsoft releases all Xbox One exclusives to PC and you say that Microsoft has betrayed PC gaming and yet nobody says that was Crytek who ported PC crysis to console and ruined gaming?

You guys are sick

Yup. I wonder if TC is this much of a whiny little twit in real life.

Betrayed? What is this, game of thrones? Anyway it's amazing how MS is a presence in PC gaming, they support PC gaming that's for sure. Sony and Nintendo support for the PC is almost non existent.

Everyone did.

Micropenis.

M$ doesn't care about PC or even Xone lol.

Lol, 'betray' is a fanboy term, because it's based on the assumption that a developer owes some form of exclusive loyalty to a particular fanboy's platform of choice

It is as silly as saying that a certain clothes company has betrayed a bunch of Walmart patrons because they decided to sell their clothes at Target as well. They are in the business of making sure as many people have access to their products as possible, not cater to the selfish desires of fanboys

Microsoft didnot acknowledge PC gaming during last generation and pretend PC doesnot exist since they release Xbox. they start acknowledging since windows 10 came out. so they start releasing shoddy port to do propaganda to promote xbox one.

Crytek on other hand i say betray PC gaming. EA was behind crytek as a reason they made Crysis 2 a pure consolized game. they could make PC oriented multiplat like plenty of developers make.

Microsoft has done more to betray PC gamers in recent years, but that was under terrible leadership. If they stay on this path, and continue to advance their DirectX API, I will be more than willing to forgive their sins committed over the last decade. They just need to keep people with too much power, and hostile management mentalities, out of their company structure. And, keeping their divisions and departments from behaving like enemies at war with each other couldn't hurt, either...

Either you haven't been gaming for long or you're just a hopeless MS fangirl, oh wait, you're a lem, that explains it all.

Whats with the Crytek choice here guys? They fucked up for sure, but how did you guys figure that they're at the top? They made like 2 games before their console switch, relatively recently. Far Cry in 2004 then Crysis in 2007 before they started with the piracy crap then went to console to sell less of Crysis 2 on three platformes combines than they did on PC alone with the first Crysis. Its a tough pill to swallow, but come on, nothing so major.

The real culprit is Microsoft here, who owns Windows and who marketed itself as a gaming platform starting with win 95. They had franchises created for PC, they marketed them, they hyped them. Then they created the xbox instead of suporting windows gaming and helped create this console market that we are now in. To think what could have been if instead of xbox they would have invested all that energy and money into PC, with exclusive games, unique, creative games specifically designed for PC. One can only imagine.

The second culprit is id Software. Whats wrong with you, that you keep saying crytek wich means nothing and is a recent company? id software dominated an era, a decade and influenced gaming more than almost anyone. They created the matrix for the first person shooter genre, the deathmatch, advanced graphic engines. All of this solely from the PC. They practically made the PC a gaming platform almost by themselves. Then they directly influenced the birth of Valve, Half Life and Steam. They are also directly responsible for Epic Games, Unreal and the Unreal engine. All these companies and games that they made were direct responses to Doom and Quake and never have existed without id software. Think about the fact that Valve and Steam wouldnt exist today. Think that no Unreal engine exists and all the hundreds of games that were made on it.

Thats what id Software did, as the crusaders of PC gaming. Then they sold to zenimax and turned console maker in a blink of an eye. Where you previously had the most advanced tech on the planet powering their games, while being demoed with mouse and keyboard, made and designed for computer play and audience, now you have console games where they work with artificial limits like framerate, resolution, gamedesign for gamepads. Its one of the most disgusting and appaling transformations i've even had the misfortune of witnessing.