@Thanatos2k: You named 1, and how many games a year does Valve publish and develop? Their revenue stream is from Steam and Dota so they dont need to go public. Everyone cant put out a program like steam with the same success. Because it would diminsh each competitor as they kept splitting the pot.
@Thanatos2k: thats not a fair comparison. Valve layed the golden egg with Steam. Between Steam and Dota, valve has an insane revenue stream and doesnt need to go public. Those revenue streams are also why they have slacked off on game development. No HL3, no L4D3, when was portal 2....
@DanieltheDead: being public not only allows greater access to capital, but also legal protections. No game company the size of Ubi exists that is private. The largest privately held game company is Bethesda, and they arent even close to Ubi's size.
@martintalex: yeah ive got an i7 with 8 gb of ddr3 and it still chugs late game. My gf has a newer laptop with an i7 and 12 gb of dram (newer graphics card too) it doesnt chug, but she also doesnt play the biggest maps.
@martintalex: yeah....yeah it can. I play with mods, largest map possible, all civilizations, longest time frame. Late game, i need a book, comics,or soemthign to read, or a tablet game to keep me occupied while it churns turns.
@darthrevenx: i get your gyst, but "degree in movie sciences" is not an actual thing. You know some this stuff because of a YT channel? What are you like 14? The only thing i agree with is on Venom, he shouldnt be rushed. Carnage should be left for after a second appearance of venom. Some villains need to be worked up to. Fox's efforts havent always fallen short. X1 through 3 were all increasingly successful, despite x3 being terrible. First class and days of future past were decent, but you have to know where first class came from. It morphed out of a script for Xmen Origins: magneto. Fox needs a hard reboot, but they are too committed to what they have and need the revenue. I dont see fox giving up xmen anytime soon, they would need to be in serious straights to sell the rights back.
@kalarro: meh. A lot of pc operating power gets wasted because it has to multitask in ways a console doesnt. Yes you can turn off a lot of functionality, but the average user doesnt know how to do that. A lot of users dont like the idea that they arent playing the best version of a game, on their chosen platform. On console you know you are having the same experience as everyone other console player (excusing the size, quality of your tv, and quality of your sound system), but graphically you are looking at the same game. It would bother me for a lot of action and third person games to know that if my pc was better, if i had a 4k monitor, if i had a better graphics card, or more ram, that the game would look and run better. Im hardly alone in that thinking. I game on pc, but generally its for Blizzard games (not sure why it doesnt bother me as much in that case) and Civilization. Finally, when developers get to work inside set parameteres such as consoles, its easier for them to tailor experiences, thats why, generally, the best looking console games are those that are exclusive to a console. Additionally, some of the best looking and most graphically memorable games come at the end of a generation or when developers bump up against the limits of what a console is capable of, and have to get creative. When they can just rely on unlimited specs...they get lazy, then you get pc games that arent efficiently coded or require insane specs to run decently while not being that great of a game (Crisis comes to mind though its many years past now).
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