Everytime I look at benchmarks for low-end graphics cards and Fifa 12 I see a about 150 fps on all high. Fifa isn't a demanding game.
[quote]The average hardware specifications of PCs — not just PCs in general, but the PCs of those who would buy FIFA on that platform — need to catch up.[/quote]
He has a very valid point and then the writer just brings up the average steam hardware. I would assume that the average FIFA player would have a worse PC than the average steam user, the boss of EA Sports would probably know better than the writer even though EA is "the source of all evil" and all that.
He's kind of right, actually. Fifa-players rarely are PC gamers, and most likely would want it low-ish spec to run it on their school labtops or something.
The average FIFA player is a 14+ year old male that plays xbox with his chav mates constantly. Meaning that, nobody is going to buy FIFA on PC unless they are PC gamers (like me). I have a high end rig and so of course I'd be able to run this "new" Ignite engine perfectly fine.
What I'm trying to say is that computer specifications shouldn't be a problem, because the people without a good PC that want to play this game are people that will own a console and much prefer to play it on that over PC.
[editline]18th June 2013[/editline]
I'm a bit pissed off that I'll have to buy a next gen console to play FIFA.
[QUOTE=zerosix;41078923]The average FIFA player is a 14+ year old male that plays xbox with his chav mates constantly. Meaning that, nobody is going to buy FIFA on PC unless they are PC gamers (like me). I have a high end rig and so of course I'd be able to run this "new" Ignite engine perfectly fine.
[/QUOTE]Around here in soviet bloc a lot of people only have PCs and low end ones at that. And for some reason many of these people are FIFA fans.
[QUOTE=zerosix;41078923]The average FIFA player is a 14+ year old male that plays xbox with his chav mates constantly. Meaning that, nobody is going to buy FIFA on PC unless they are PC gamers (like me). I have a high end rig and so of course I'd be able to run this "new" Ignite engine perfectly fine.
What I'm trying to say is that computer specifications shouldn't be a problem, because the people without a good PC that want to play this game are people that will own a console and much prefer to play it on that over PC.
[editline]18th June 2013[/editline]
I'm a bit pissed off that I'll have to buy a next gen console to play FIFA.[/QUOTE]
You deserve it the way you talk about people that use different platforms to you.
Why do people (Microsoft and EA) keep rubbishing PCs? Console games are developed on PCs, consoles are basically more expensive versions of PCs.
I know the console audience is rather large. But consoles are beginning to die out. PCs are growing at a steady rate. Mobile gaming has unfortunately exploded.
This brings me to another dilemma. Why are so many people making mobile games? Casual gamers are the main people who play mobile games. What about us? The gamers who are loyal to gaming and have been playing games for years? Are you really going to turn your backs on us for mobile gaming.
PC is the ultimate and will always be the ultimate. Consoles come and go. But PCs will live forever.
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But consoles are beginning to die out.
This brings me to another dilemma. Why are so many people making mobile games? Casual gamers are the main people who play mobile games. What about us? The gamers who are loyal to gaming and have been playing games for years? Are you really going to turn your backs on us for mobile gaming.
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1) What, no they aren't. the PS4 will sell like hotcakes. Xbone maybe not, but there's others, and microsoft will probably make another one if it doesn't sell well (and they want to invest)
2)Mobile games=profit. There are more casual gamers than actual PC gamers. The larger the fanbase, the more dosh the company will get. Seems like a smarter move to make microtransaction laden mobile games than a high-budget PC-only game.
[QUOTE=Darth Ninja;41079015]Mobile gaming has unfortunately exploded.
This brings me to another dilemma. Why are so many people making mobile games? Casual gamers are the main people who play mobile games. What about us? The gamers who are loyal to gaming and have been playing games for years? Are you really going to turn your backs on us for mobile gaming.[/QUOTE]
Mobile gaming is hardly a threat to actual gaming, since the audiences don't overlap at all, so there's no competition. No one sits at home in their couch playing mobile games, it's something you do when you're out and away and have five minutes to waste.
[editline]18th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=DwarfOverlord;41079038]1) What, no they aren't. the PS4 will sell like hotcakes. Xbone maybe not, but there's others, and microsoft will probably make another one if it doesn't sell well (and they want to invest)[/QUOTE]
Xbone is actually expected to outsell the PS4, just not by as much as thought at first after the terrible reveals.
Brand loyalty is a hell of a drug.
[QUOTE=DwarfOverlord;41079038]1) What, no they aren't. the PS4 will sell like hotcakes. Xbone maybe not, but there's others, and microsoft will probably make another one if it doesn't sell well (and they want to invest)
2)Mobile games=profit. There are more casual gamers than actual PC gamers. The larger the fanbase, the more dosh the company will get. Seems like a smarter move to make microtransaction laden mobile games than a high-budget PC-only game.[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Excellent points.
1) Consoles are not dead. But they are slowly decreasing in popularity. Reason: Audience is moving from consoles to PCs and mobiles.
2) I can understand that it's a good marketing strategy. What I'm saying is that some companies are abandoning us for the mobile platform. Some companies don't respect their fan bases.
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Lot of smugness from someone who only oversees the release of two games ever year.
Well I bet EA has done a lot of market research, so I trust them a hell of a lot more than a bunch check of random people on the Internet. It's probably more work for EA to make and ship two different versions of the game, so I bet they have a better reason than "hehehe fuck PC's >:)"
I play FIFA on console. Mainly because I had no clue sport games are still made on PC and it's easier to play with my friends.
I kinda agree with him, since most people who play FiFa on PC often do it on old and/or cheap laptops.
But that just means the game engine needs a little more flexibility, but that requires additional development, and that makes investors saaaaad :(
[QUOTE=Van-man;41081111]I kinda agree with him, since most people who play FiFa on PC often do it on old and/or cheap laptops.
But that just means the game engine needs a little more flexibility, but that requires additional development, and that makes investors saaaaad :([/QUOTE]
"a little more" wow must be a tiny bit of work trying to combine two different engines how hard could that be huh ?
Aren't all these sports games the same thing as the last just refreshed a little?
If a fucking footy game needs a high end rig then It's a case of rubbish programmers, not rubbish PCs.
[QUOTE=Van-man;41081111]I kinda agree with him, since most people who play FiFa on PC often do it on old and/or cheap laptops.
But that just means the game engine needs a little more flexibility, but that requires additional development, and that makes investors saaaaad :([/QUOTE]
It's a new engine, so they'll probably add more optimizations as time goes on. Plus, it's difficult to make something run on such shitty hardware, so I don't blame them
I wouldn't say he's wrong either. You don't hear people building gaming PCs so they can play sports games like FIFA.
Comments like this is why I avoid EA all together these days.
It's even on the ps2...
[QUOTE=Adarrek;41081659]It's even on the ps2...[/QUOTE]
yeah thats bullshit, if a fucking ps2 can handle it, a pc can too
[QUOTE=Adarrek;41081659]It's even on the ps2...[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but it's not running the ignite engine
I don't see his point, fifa games on PC still use the ps2 era engine
[QUOTE=Ericson666;41081795]Yeah, but it's not running the ignite engine[/QUOTE]
Neither is the PC version.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;41081181]Brand loyalty doesn't work that way with consoles.
The Nintendo 64 sold like crap, even though Nintendo practically owned the console market in the previous generation, the same thing happened with the gamecube, the only reason the Wii sold so much was because it appealed to the most casual gamers out there.
The PS3 sold like shit, and didn't pick up until they significantly lowered the price, meanwhile both the PS1 and PS2 broke over 100 million units sold during their generations.[/QUOTE]
Well, last time I saw third-party post-E3 sales projections, the XBox had quite a lead on the PS4.
[QUOTE=Darth Ninja;41079015]Why do people (Microsoft and EA) keep rubbishing PCs? Console games are developed on PCs, consoles are basically more expensive versions of PCs.
I know the console audience is rather large. But consoles are beginning to die out. PCs are growing at a steady rate. Mobile gaming has unfortunately exploded.
[b]This brings me to another dilemma. Why are so many people making mobile games? Casual gamers are the main people who play mobile games. What about us? The gamers who are loyal to gaming and have been playing games for years? Are you really going to turn your backs on us for mobile gaming.[/b]
PC is the ultimate and will always be the ultimate. Consoles come and go. But PCs will live forever.[/QUOTE]
one sec, let me go ask a BUSINESS to stop making literal truckloads of money and make a niche-market cRPG for me and 30 other users on my videogame forum. after all, we are the REAL gamers, huh?
[editline]18th June 2013[/editline]
also, this sensationalist title is incorrect. big surprise!!
he doesn't "think" he LITERALLY knows for a fact that the average fifa PC player has a baby tier PC.
so i guess anything negative towards pc gaming/gamers is "GRR EVIL OPINION" now, right?
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