Alan Wake PC plans 'up in the air'

I didn't get it from anywhere, I also did not know/care who published the game. Don't be a nit picker.

So the writer of Alan Wake is...Sam Lake....really?

Snowblind wrote "Piracy is also the reason we haven't seen Fable 2, Halo 3 or Gears 2 on the PC yet.. and are unlikely to. It seems Microsoft have pretty much abandoned the PC, it only hurts the Xbox sales."

Um, being on the 360 hasn't stopped those games from being pirated to extreme numbers. I'm tired of developers using the lame "piracy is rampant on PCs" excuse so they can get away with not developing for PCs. Be honest and just tell us that you don't make as much money per copy on PC games as you do for consoles.

And I agree with others. Dev'ing for PCs is no where near as easy as for a console. Consoles are a "closed environment". They're the same hardware for years. That is why going from a console to PC is much harder.

What I hate most about console->PC games are the controls. It's like the devs never played on a PC so they don't know how to program for a keyboard and mouse. And no, I'm not going to plug my 360 controller into my PC. If I want crappy gamepad controls, I'll play on my 360. I keep a gaming PC BECAUSE of the keyboard and mouse which are much more accurate and responsive than a controller.

Video on a PC is better too. 32bit color vs. 10bit/16bit. More detail in the frames, higher frame rates, etc. Sure, it's harder to dev, but I also pay more for the hardware.

The irony is that Microsoft continues to try to promote features like DirectX 11 and Games For Windows at the expense of actually making games for the PC. So they expect people to run and upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7, and yet, won't support PC as a platform by providing actual games. It seems Microsoft, by coming into the console market, is now competing with itself by having two gaming platforms, whether they would like to admit it or not.

Microsoft is footing the bill. If they think they'll get more cash from the Xbox version, I gather the Xbox version will be their primary concern; Games For Windows, secondary.

I'll just be happy if the game isn't vaporware and if it doesn't become next year's version of "Alone in the Dark"...hopefully there won't be schizophrenic camera and controls, terrible combat, non-pause inventory and horrible driving (if there is any)...It's supposed to be pretty, but I'll be happy if the game fucking works. Too many famed developers (Eden, Silicon, others) have been taking a dump on gamers lately...

I think Gamer4Life meant that games that are originally designed to use a gamepad (not a FPS, but a third person game) control better on a gamepad than a mouse and keyboard.

I think Gamer4Life meant that games originally designed for controls with a gamepad (not on FPSes, but like third person games) work better than mouse keyboard combo. I can't imagine playing something like God of War or MGS4 on a mouse/keyboard.

What...the fuck. Oh well. I'll survive, these fools have spent far too long working on this game, and their showing ended up being less than expected from me.

MS does appear to have decided to actively target the PC gamng market for demolition.

Which strikes me as a rather dumb decision... cos if we didn't all have to use PCs for gaming, there'd be nothing stopping us switching to other operating systems like Linux or OSX.

games for windows seemed like a "do not buy this game" warning. they take their best PC game studio (ensemble) and make them work on a console game before closing them. they close the flight sim studio.

I don't get what is stopping MS from including a Xbox Live style system right in Windows. It'd tie games to users, allow people to buy and download easily, etc.. that equals just as profitable a system as on the 360.