PC gaming is dying, BioWare & publishers, installers to blame

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PC gaming is dying, get the facts:

 

1) Internet has enabled pricing and releasing to be global, instant*(pirate releasing especially)

 

2) Publishers are still trying to price items differently by each region/country

 

3) Publisher/BioWare decided that Mass Effect for PC*would be released a week*later in*Europe than US. Do they think a) no one in Europe understands or wants english*version b) it takes a week to move the bits from US to EU? c) both?

 

4) Publishers don't "get" the Internet. For a single player game you want to keep some of the content and code on a server until sales have died down, otherwise every bit of the content is on the torrent after the release in the first region.

 

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in 1 month publishers are again telling us that PC gaming is dying*and not acknowledging that publisher policies and lack of understanding modern technology and the fact that PC gamers do not want to take a hour to install games from DVD's but want to stream them from the net (as WoW does, even though WoW is just a glorified single player game with chat client) played a big part.

 

 

Also

 

Say No to companies using installers for software that don't require installing. It's pretty annoying that you have*most of the *software running perfectly without admin rights - except for the installer.

 

Windows does check that dependencies are there when you run the program, if something is missing, then go get it, you don't need installer for this.

 

Pirated games can be often xcopy deployed from system to system, why would you want to pay for something that's more restricted? It's not like the installers were preventing the pirates! Hello publishers get a clue.

 

 

 

PS.*Not buying MassEffect unless BioWare changes the EU release date to match US release date and changes the "copy protection" from activation to streaming without installers. Too bad, it might have been good.

 

PS2. Using Windows is pretty much "streaming" already*having to download the hundred updates and SDKs to get anything done.

 

 

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