A PC version would fuck up the entire experience. I'm a first gen gamer, and this is one of the best gaming experiences in my life, even I've completed the game 3 times! SO I'm soooooo thrilled about this, I hope for DLC, also, please make a version of Demon's Souls for the Xbox 360? please pretty please!
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A PC port would ruin the experience because there are so many bleeding pirates that won't buy the game, reducing the IP profit and thus giving less resources for better sequels.
A PC port would ruin the experience because there are so many bleeding pirates that won't buy the game, reducing the IP profit and thus giving less resources for better sequels.
I still can't understand why people still reason like that.
Say porting the game costs 1M dollars (i'm exagerating on purpose),
If i happen to sell 200k copies (which is piss easy for a game like dark souls) at 10 dollars (excluding publisher costs, etc, so the final game will be something like 20 dollars) they will have made a ONE MILLION DOLLARS profit!
What happens if they don't port the game?
They will have made ZERO dollars!
And i've been pulling number out of my ass, we all know it will be sold for 49.90, and porting the game will cost far less than 1M.
The worst actually is how those morons mimic the marketing and PR talk 1:1, and ALL of them jump on the DLC and achievement bandwagon.
This pattern permeates almost every single comment.
The most easily pawned, with no opinion of their own, are the most stupid ones and they happen to be console derps. Who would've thought that?!
you should get the numbers right:
- The petition up to date counts 90,915 signatures.
- You can bet that many of them are pirates as well. Do you really think they have any dignity? the buyers in that petition can be as low as 10.000.
- Dark Souls for X360 sold less than 1/2 the copies for PS3.
- Steam doesn't provide numbers about sales. So I don't know where you've got the Alan Wake sales.
- VGChartz numbers for multiplatform games are always well behind on PC. Skyrim (and sure, WoW) apart, I don't know if any PC game reached the 1 million mark in the recent years.
Said that I'd rather have From Software investing its resources on DLCs than in a port. Also if a PC port will ever happen I just praise the Sun that the perfect D* Souls gamepad controls won't ever be changed in the future to fit the stupid mouse and keyboard.
-VGChartz uses made-up statistics. You will never find the source of their claims, and they never count digital sales that are now a majority in PC sales.
-As for games that sold over 1 million on PC in recent years: WoW, Skyrim, The Witcher, The Witcher 2, Minecraft (5.3 million sales for an indie title), Crysis(3 million copies), Age of Empires 3 (2,5 million) , S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2 million), Spore (2 million), Crysis Warhead (1,5 million) , Bioshock (1 million),
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
Somebody please post there that Dark Souls has been pirated on Xbox 360 in the thousands. And tell them that they are stupid.
console piracy doesn't count. They're such closed system, piracy doesn't affect them at all. There's so little pirated games out there it's a joke.
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that's what they believe. by they i mean the scumbag publishers who blame pc piracy on everything and piracy in general supports terrorism. you pirated latest nicky cage movie, you caused 911. you also support gay marriage, and are pro-choice. YOU PEOPLE DISGUST ME!!
Assuming this does end up on PC (and it's looking likely), does anyone expect Namco to actually do a good job porting it? I play DS on the PS3 every day and it's easily one of my favourite games ever made, but what experience do they have with the PC? They're a Japanese console publisher after all, which hasn't exactly been a winning formula for PC games in the past. I really hope they take the time to do this right and fix all the lingering problems with the current console version, but i'm not holding my breath, personally.
Edit: actually, they published The Witcher 1 & 2, so maybe there's still some hope. I imagine it'll be outsourced to a proper PC porting studio, rather than an internal FROM job, right?
Assuming this does end up on PC (and it's looking likely), does anyone expect Namco to actually do a good job porting it? I play DS on the PS3 every day and it's easily one of my favourite games ever made, but what experience do they have with the PC? They're a Japanese console publisher after all, which hasn't exactly been a winning formula for PC games in the past. I really hope they take the time to do this right and fix all the lingering problems with the current console version, but i'm not holding my breath, personally.
Edit: actually, they published The Witcher 1 & 2, so maybe there's still some hope. I imagine it'll be outsourced to a proper PC porting studio, rather than an internal FROM job, right?
Assuming this does end up on PC (and it's looking likely), does anyone expect Namco to actually do a good job porting it? I play DS on the PS3 every day and it's easily one of my favourite games ever made, but what experience do they have with the PC? They're a Japanese console publisher after all, which hasn't exactly been a winning formula for PC games in the past. I really hope they take the time to do this right and fix all the lingering problems with the current console version, but i'm not holding my breath, personally.
Edit: actually, they published The Witcher 1 & 2, so maybe there's still some hope. I imagine it'll be outsourced to a proper PC porting studio, rather than an internal FROM job, right?
Capcom is a Japanese mostly console developer who had been putting out some great PC ports the last couple of years. Namco should take a look at them to see how it should be done.
I so hope it's true. Everyone in blighttown will pay handsomely for all the times I've died there due to poor framerates. One of the best games I've played this gen, console game or not. Will buy it again even if it is a straight up port with no additions (as long as it is a good port).
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SO I'm soooooo thrilled about this, I hope for DLC, also, please make a version of Demon's Souls for the Xbox 360? please pretty please!
