PC and Mac users don't just have desktops and laptops for games - they often use them for other things as well. It is often the tool they work with in IT and programming and so on.
I can't imagine that any one of us would spend money to "feel superior" to console gamers. We do it because we enjoy the choice and scope our platform offers both for causal games and also for non-casual games and simulations. We are at home with out PCs, and the flexibility they offer. We also like mice.
This is terrible thing for the PC games industry. What message does this sound out to GPU developers? Is the pace of hardware development now to be governed by current generation of console? Also the question arises in my mind - why couldn't there have been several versions with different graphics? The code for each platform is compiled for that platform alone, so each version could have been optimized for the target platform. What I see here appears to be deliberate downgrade of the PC version simply to stop console gamers feeling bad at seeing superior graphics on a PC. It's as if the console industry had a collection and gave a bag of money to Code Project Red to downgrade the graphics.
And furthermore, publishers better be careful about what they advertise upfront in future.
Regardless of what this PR tool says, most people can spot a scam - which is exactly what this is. The ONLY language publishers like these understand is boycotting, because that breaks their business model.
There are two types of games. Inspired games that were created out of passion for the game itself. These are the games the developers make because they themselves want to play them. Then there is the shovel-ware commissioned by money grubbers seeking to exploit a demand on the market, and it's these games that usually stoop to the cynical and manipulative practice of micro-transactions, day-one DLC and all the rest.
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