S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Screenshots Compare DirectX 10 and DirectX 11

OK, everyone in this thread is taking a big shit on this, but I must ask..

a) We all agree that the DX11 shot looks better than the DX10 shot, right? Sure, by only a small amount but still better, yes?

b) With new technology coming out it's better that games take advantage of it than just keep on trucking with the same old stuff, right?

c) Nowhere does it say that DX11 is required, or even that DX10 is required. Why is everyone acting like this is some sort of horrible conspiracy designed to sell video cards?

d) DX11 is moving things forward. Isn't that good? Would you rather that things not move forward? If you don't think this is enough, what would you like to see?

Finally, people aren't understanding something: DirectX 10 or 11 is not about making games look 100x better. It's about improving the development pipeline. It's about making things better and easier to implement. A nice side effect is better graphics, more stuff implementable, etc. But it's never been some sort of magic bullet to make games automatically more awesomer:

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14877234
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16356107

The reason DX10 was Vista exclusive was not some evil conspiracy to sell Vista, it's because it required fundamental operating system changes not possible with XP. That's why no one has ever hacked it back into XP (efforts to do so have failed).

This is different from games like Shadowrun or Halo 2 which had Vista as an artificial requirement but really ran on DX9 - that was indeed an evil conspiracy to sell Vista. Which failed.