Everyone is 'doing it wrong'. If you're truly a hardcore player, when you die, that's IT. Delete the game and never play again. One life and one life only. None of this, oh I died but no big deal, I'll simply start over attitude. When the author and so-called hardcore players are willing to play true hardcore, than hell, I'll shut up and give it a shot myself.
Everyone experiences lag from time to time. It's a fact of networking. Excessive amounts are a different story of course, but telling someone they won't get lag if they have better than 'terrible' internet is misleading, or to put it bluntly, a flat out lie.
They're still selling copies of Diablo II! It's definitely not 'desperate measure for desperate time' when it comes to Blizzard and the Diablo series. It's more because of the Auction House revenue potential and statistical information gathering for the purpose of further improving the game. Blaming pirating is a cop out that companies who produce mediocre and/or overpriced games use to justify their dismal sales *cough* Crytek *cough*.
It's the fact that the author is telling those of us who don't play hardcore are 'doing it wrong'. Those three words make it more than just the author's opinion on the most fun way to play the game. So, by dissing on players who don't want to lose their characters playing hardcore (my only reason being lag death), he opened himself up for backlash. True, his intention was most likely to state his opinion, but as the title and article are worded, he failed miserably. Let's hope he'll learn from his mistake, provided he intention wasn't to actually provoke Diablo III players, which he obviously did not fail miserably at.
Looks back 'fondly'? The game sucked. Completely sucked! People resorted to playing instruments, joining bands IN game...that's how craptacular it was. It was an abomination and should never be spoken of again. EVER.
Crysis average is only 30 fps? And someone commented (xmantisx) something about 30 fps being ok, who can tell the difference. If the average is 'only' 30 fps, then you're dipping in the teens to get that average. So hell YES I can tell the difference between 30 fps and 100 fps average. A lot of action would = slow framerate, which would equal unsatisfactory gameplay. 40-60 fps average is a good ballpark, higher being much better of course.
I play PC games exclusively (8800GTS 512, Athlon 64x2, my two boys have both an xbox (NOT the 360), and a PS3, and each their own PC (one with a 5 year old geforce 5700 ultra the other with a radeon x700 pro. Christmas is almost here, maybe that'll change ;D). Even the 5700 equipped PC sees more game time than the PS3! They play the PS3 quite a bit, but not enough to knock the PC from king of the hill.
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