Fable 3 set to overthrow the PC kingdom May 17 [update: now with screens!]

@SgtDookie Of course not! We lowly PC dogs should be grateful to get a piss-poor console port, much less something with an extra difficulty.

In fact, THERE'S your free DLC: Hardcore Mode! At this point I'll pirate it if I get bored.

@SgtDookie
If not, I'll just be holding out that much longer.

@Tinkus ...you are exactly why the PC is an after thought

@Tinkus Yes, its quite clearly going to be a crappy Console port, I mean they only continued production for half a year to make the PC port, It couldn't be worth a damn at all, right?

@Qehb
agreed. also I doubt this will sell much after already being out for so long(and not being very good to begin with) but of course they'll still blame it on piracy...

@Qehb

Agreed. After the reception it got, and the wait following it there's little way that I could care less about this game.

@darkinchworm I guess better than just being outright screwed like half the companies. :(

Not every company can be as awesome as Valve

You'd think the people who write the damn software that runs PCs could release a good game or two on it on a timely schedule.

@Pugnaciousturtle

Good luck. You know they'll make it require their godforsaken GamesForWindows Live platform that Microsoft still hasn't realized that no one likes or wants because it's horrid and a million times inferior to Steam.

@KungFuChaosNinja Agreed, they actually tried a plot third time around.

@Aberhams

Money, he says. Maybe it's 'cos the PC crowd seems composed exclusively of irritable people with narrow mindsets and impossibly specific standards, combined with a disturbingly loose definition of "copyright"?

@TheChezDispenser

that's a bit of a stretch. PC gamers may have standards, we expect games to be finished on release and run relatively bug free. that's not really that extreme, console gamers tend to get those things as a matter of course, and take it for granted. Beyond that, we expect to get our moneys worth, i don't see how that is an impossible standard.

as far as the narrow minded bits, that's just insulting generalizations. and while i won't deny that PC gaming has a problem with pirates, i believe that that problem is vastly over stated by publishers to justify poor sales for poor products.

It absolutely is a problem of money in the end though. the PC market is significantly smaller than the console market. because of that we absolutely are neglected by lots of publishers who give us slipshod ports when we get anything at all. given that kind of treatment by the industry, is it any surprise that PC gamers get jaded in regards to console games and console developers? or that we would rally around the few remaining devs who appear go still care about PC gamers?

@Aberhams

Well--er...

To be honest I wasn't expecting a reasoned response like that. You're an exception to the typical MASTER RACE crowd. Being a bit of a "play everything" type, I can see some of your points. While I believe piracy plays a big part in the smaller PC market, a lot of it just, well, what's going to sell more to the average, play-an-hour-or-two-a-day-if-that gamer? And in this market, can you afford to spend millions of dollars on anything that won't return a profit? Most of these ports are slipshod, I'd hazard, because they're attempting to make a last bit of money off of it; thanks to presumably meager sales expectations, they likely don't expend much effort/money in order to shine up the port.

@Aberhams
Thanks for reminding me to pre-order Witcher 2. I can't believe I forgot about it.

@TheChezDispenser
Often most of my friends who're PC gamer priates are console gamers. They refuse to buy on PC buy will buy on console.

@TheChezDispenser

no one expects reasoned arguments on The Internet! You make some good points as well, really it does just come down to the console market being so much bigger with less risk. Ah well, I've been a PC gamer since Doom, it may be a niche market, but its MY niche market, damnit! There are still enough developers making good PC games that I can't get too up in arms over months-late console ports.

Wow! That's just like you!