The folks behind
Titan Quest is closing their doors and one of the THQ folks has
vented out his frustrations on PC gaming. Of course he covers the problem of piracy but he also throws in how hardware vendors are creating problems as well. The part about how people experiencing crashes in
Titan Quest was due to a copy protection scheme is rather interesting. I do like one of the posters suggestion that rather than crash the game to the desktop if it fails one of these security checks to instead put up a message saying you are not playing with a legal copy. That would have prevented the word of mouth on how it was crashing in the same spot for all those that pirated the game early on. Then again, pirates would then key on this and hacked that as well rather than think the game was crashing from buggy code. It's just a no win situation I guess.
I love PC gaming and if I had my choice on a game that's released on all platforms, 99.99% of the time I'd go PC without hesitation. About the only games I would take on a console over a PC would be sports games. Recent games likes
BioShock,
Call of Duty 4, and
The Orange Box were all PC choices for me. Who knows what the answer is to curb the pirating but we're seeing more developers speak out on the frustrations of developing for the PC these days.
Thanks
Bluesnews.
