PC Gaming Alliance Adds New Members

Promoters:

AMD: Cries that nVidia works with developers yet refuses to match the same level of involvement, preferring to rebel rouse the gamers against a supposedly tyrannical Green World Order.

Capcom: Releases console ports. Often, bad ports. That are late. And lack obvious PC game features.

Dell: Bought Alienware and made them a mainstream, watered down brand. Let their PC's go to crap.

Epic Games: Dropped PC development entirely. Don't even bother to port their titles to PC.

Intel: Makes the LCD the Intel GPU that sucks so bad it makes most PC's sold today unable to game effectively, diminishing a market that COULD be bigger than any console.

Microsoft: Poached lots of classic PC developer, converting them to mostly console development. Does anyone remember Deus Ex: IW? Goodbye Bungie, goodbye Epic. Wasted the chance to bring console and PC gamers into the same network, didn't bother to put any of the work they put into Live toward PC networking. Fragmented the market by making Vista the only place for DX10 for years. Killed FASA, left the Mechwarrior and Crimson Skies licenses on life support. Killed Microsoft Golf, bought out and then killed Links, killed Flight Simulator, Train Simulator. Killed Ensemble and Age of Empires. Goodbye Digital Anvil.

nVidia: Fragmented the market by not pushing to make PhysX usable by all parties. Pushed ancient DX10 hardware in the biggest PC market (laptops) for years and years with constant renaming schemes to keep people from realizing they're getting ever increasingly trivial amounts of performance improvement. Thus stunting most of the laptops that escaped the crap that was an Intel GPU.

Sony DADC: ...

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Contributors:

Bigfoot networks: They made a >$200 network card. EVENTUALLY it made its way down to $130. Its best and biggest advantage is that it improves your ping very slightly, assuming your ISP isn't letting you down. And they're a contributor? Really?

Gamestop: How many stores carry PC games now? Would GS rather people buy games they can resell later at pure profit or games they can't resell? Hmmm....

Gas Powered Games: Why GPG? WHY? Look at their last two games and tell me. No Blizzard, no Valve, but GPG?

Logitech: ...

Razer: MOAR MICE! MOAR PADS! MOAR HIGHLY OVERPRICED BRANDED BAGS!

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These are all of the promoters and some of the contributors. Several of these groups have no business at all pushing PC gaming interests because they have about the same interest (MS, Sony, Epic, Gamestop) in PC gaming as Rupert Murdoch has in Google's success.

The PC Crying Alliance, you mean?.

In the years since they created this marketing POS, they've done exactly ZERO to promote the PC. No wonder, since half their members are doing all they can to kill it.

Do they get together and come up with ever more elaborate excuses why not to make games for the PC?

At this point I wouldn't be surprised to hear PC gaming causes global warming. Or AIDS.

Where's Valve? Why is Epic Games on the PC Gaming Alliance? Didn't they kill the Unreal Tournament series, and made their games exclusive to Xbox 360? I'm surprise that Gamestop is there too.

Everyone always asks what do these guys do. I want to know what these guys are.

I mean, is it just some dude somewhere who puts out press releases and makes phone calls? And if so who does he work for?

Or is it an actual "company" that makes money somehow and has offices and shit?

I'm just gonna re-post this each and every time one of these articles appears...

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19685481#itemanchor_19685481

"piracy protection protection firm" so they protect them from piracy protection or what?

It's a trap!

Great. Now do something.

Press Release Alliance Adds New Members