boolybooly (2) Oct 14, 2007 - 03:00 am » Edited on Oct 14, 2007 - 03:03 am
» the truth will out I hope Blizzards exemplary performance in terms of product support and integrity of development acts as a wake up call to EA.
Its not that EA have not had good ti*tle concepts and very credible beta code, its just that with an EA game you know there are always several bugs that are just never going to be fixed. Their financial strategy for development has been short termist and antagonistic to their support strategy and customer relations.
Thats why I have not bought an EA game since Emperor Battle for Dune. Though I have tried plenty of demos and visit the forums to hear the truth about support. And the truth as they say will out. I hope EA will follow John Riccitiello's lead and learn from their more successful competi*tors that completing game support after the sales surge is not a pointless waste of money.
*PS will someone please fix the bloody swear filter.
» elephant in the room While the data in the article was very telling and worth reading, the conclusion was spectacularly interesting for what it avoided saying. Seems to me the elephant in the room noone is talking about is that DX10 is basically hyped and not worth its salt.
"DX10 is incremental" means you cant really tell DX9 from DX10. I took a good look and while methods of drawing are obviously different, the effects are not superior in DX10. First I agree DX9 fur was better. You cant see the hulls of big boats through water like that btw because of refraction. Waves never break along a shore all at the same time.
What wasnt hard to spot was the performance hit of using DX10 and its well known the same applies to Vista compared to XP. Apps run slower in Vista even on top spec rigs after all other processes are complete. It is slower period. IMHO If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its a duck. Vista is slower than XP and DX10 offers little to compensate the performance hit or cost of hardware upgrade.
In terms of marketability they are IMHO pushing that rock up a pretty steep hill.
