Does a bear crap in the woods?

Yes...yes it does. And yes....I would be interested. Damn the cliffhanger that is Episode 2!

I will never not be interested in Halflife.

mrbojangles25

what he said.

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[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Who actually buys sports games for PC? I definitely don't.Captain__Tripps

More People that you'd think. Just search up some Fansites for FIFA/NHL08 and see the endless mods, roster and skin updates made by the community on weekly basis during the season.

Anywho, as far as EA abandoning PC sports games, they have been feeding us PS2 garbage ports since 06. So I stopped caring. But with NBA 2k9 coming to PC, its possible 2k finally realized the untapped market potential on the PC front and finally get EA something to compete against. Though admittedly, NBA wasnt the best option of a game to port...

hey, you're back! :o anyway, with nba 2k9 coming to the pc, i hope mlb 09 (or 2010) will as well. i'm exciting. ea sports abandoning the pc platform might be a blessing in disguise!

They haven't abandoned PC. They are retooling Madden and NBA at least for 2010. And NHL and Fifa never left. Supposedly, a new online is coming for next year, and hopefully a better graphics engine.

you could see it both ways. nhl and fifa are still ps2 ports. madden and nba were ps2 ports for the longest time. tiger is still ps2 ports. they may not have technically left, but for all intents and purposes, they may as well have. madden and nba series are beginning to suck, and with the 2k series coming to the pc, ea's move to FINALLY do a new gen port may be too little, too late.

[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Who actually buys sports games for PC? I definitely don't.The_PC_Gamer

More People that you'd think. Just search up some Fansites for FIFA/NHL08 and see the endless mods, roster and skin updates made by the community on weekly basis during the season.

Anywho, as far as EA abandoning PC sports games, they have been feeding us PS2 garbage ports since 06. So I stopped caring. But with NBA 2k9 coming to PC, its possible 2k finally realized the untapped market potential on the PC front and finally get EA something to compete against. Though admittedly, NBA wasnt the best option of a game to port...

hey, you're back! :o anyway, with nba 2k9 coming to the pc, i hope mlb 09 (or 2010) will as well. i'm exciting. ea sports abandoning the pc platform might be a blessing in disguise!

[QUOTE="mudflaps2001"]Other RTS games have more than one expansion, but you never hear anyone complain about those companies milking their franchises.F1_2004

Companies like EA that milk it dry have been getting flak for a long time. This is even worse, since Blizzard are outright saying, before any kind of release, that they're gonna be dividing up the content into expansions. So yes, they do deserve to take heat for it.

you really think that what ea does with the sims franchise is the same as what blizzard is doing with sc2? let's break this down: the sims 2 has 8 expansions and 10 stuff packs with each of the expansions costing $30 and the stuff packs costing $20. that's $240+$200, which equals $440. not only that, it seems ea deliberately set out to do this from the getgo, which is pretty obvious since half the expansions are pretty much the same as what they released for the original sims. blizzard, from what we can tell, just went overboard with the terran campaign and ended up with more than enough content to justify releasing it as a full game. as mudflaps2001 mentioned, a lot of rts release at least 2 or 3 expansions, which pretty much comes out to $110-170 ($50 for the original, $30-40 for the expansions), which is pretty much on par with how much sc2 will end up costing as a whole. $490 (including the sims 2) v. $120-150? i really don't see the comparison.