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Subject: How many players do you think will play Halo 2 Vista?

What it is.

I believe that there will be a fair amount of people playing. Easily over 1,000(lol).

  • 03.27.2007 8:40 PM PDT
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0% of 360 gamers will probably be severely outnumbered by dedicated PC gamers who could care less about a port of a three-year-old console title

Those that actually *HAVE* consoles. . . . . . . . Those that don't, it's effectively a new game.

  • 03.29.2007 5:41 AM PDT
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Considerably more than none, considerably less than the populace of the entire planet?

  • 03.29.2007 6:12 AM PDT

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People are forgetting the Halo Effect.

Halo PC was popular, wasn't the player numbers up in the 9k's in 2004? But due to the lead (lag), most people moved on to other lag free(er) games.

I assure you that if Halo 2 Vista is good, then we shall see, within a year, a good chunk of players. "True" PC gamers play a game because it's fun, not because it's all shiny and brand new, and I think people underestimate how large a chunk of PC gamers are in the "True" category.

It's 4 years after Halo PC's release and there are still about 1k players online at any given time, I say that's pretty darned good. And considering the new tech and games that are comming out, a lot of those people will more than likely be getting new computers in the next year or two, and will get Vista along with it if their smart.

Vista does not require any service packs to fix bugs, Microsoft can't make a bad Beta driver work, the blame for bad Vista drivers falls on the companies that make the hardware, especially since for printers and camera's, it's an entirely new driver for each and every product, and they release new products every 2 months.

You expect Microsoft to put in the effort to make these drivers work? Insane, the Vista Beta has been out for months and as such if drivers don't work it's even more the fault of the hardware manufacturer. To run Vista effectively you require a computer that is a step up from what is "mid range" right now, and yes, right now, a mear MONTH after it's release, only nerds and new computer owners will have that.

Halo 2 Vista releases in May, that's still a month and a bit away, a lot of people are jumping on the cheap upgrade from XP to Vista bandwagon, but what I think we have here is a leap forward in computing standards. 512MB just won't cut it anymore, not if you want the improvements people seek. Even Mac's come standard with 1 Gig of RAM, and 2 Gig's of RAM is hardly that expensive anymore. The Core 2 Duo and nVidia 8 series graphics cards are the greatest advances in capability we have seen in a decade, games are already comming out that push the 8 series high end cards.

If gamers wan't to keep up, their going to have to get new computers or upgrade, a next generation is uppon us, and inside one year from now, I expect games and hardware to leave people who bought awesome machines even 2 years ago wondering what happened. In 6 months these early next-gen technologies will be cheap enough to be reasonable, I expect to be getting a new computer around 6 months from now, and Vista and H2V will be there waiting, and I expect it to grow significantly soon after for the reason that it's Halo, which everyone has heard about and just MUST have, and because PC gamers remember how good Halo 1 was and want more Halo.

Yay for long-ass rambling posts that somehow stay on topic!

  • 03.29.2007 6:25 AM PDT
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Yay for long-ass rambling posts that somehow stay on topic!

That is a long answer to a short question. Good job!

  • 03.29.2007 6:35 AM PDT

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What can I say, I have a gift. I can provide short answers to complex questions, and essays for simple questions. Yay me!

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Posted by: Synthmilk
Yay for long-ass rambling posts that somehow stay on topic!

That is a long answer to a short question. Good job!

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Off topic, but I love that quote from the Simpsons' Reverend Lovejoy: "Long answer: 'Yes' with an 'if.' Short answer: 'No' with a 'but.'" I use that whenever someone asks me a Yes/No question. They hate it!

  • 03.29.2007 8:31 AM PDT
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I think MS are responsible for the problems, not those who make the hardware. I'm pretty sure an OS is meant to fit around the hardware, not the hardware fitting around an OS.

There's a lot more to it than just "they've had months and haven't made good drivers".

[Edited on 03.29.2007 9:10 AM PDT]

  • 03.29.2007 9:06 AM PDT
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there will be enough for me 2 be satisfied. And for everyone else to be satisfied too.

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Posted by: CylonLeader
0% of 360 gamers will probably be severely outnumbered by dedicated PC gamers who could care less about a port of a three-year-old console title

Those that actually *HAVE* consoles. . . . . . . . Those that don't, it's effectively a new game.
Indeed, you are correct. But Halo 2 really isn't as innovative as other games have been, and doesn't look as good, either. All I'm saying is that it lacks the next-gen, new game flash.

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Posted by: Btcc22
I think MS are responsible for the problems, not those who make the hardware. I'm pretty sure an OS is meant to fit around the hardware, not the hardware fitting around an OS.

There's a lot more to it than just "they've had months and haven't made good drivers".


Huh?

Since when is the operating system supposed to bend to the will of 3rd party graphics card manufacturers?

In fact, the OS works just fine with the drivers that are out, it's games that the drivers are not working for, and that is even farther out of the realm of what Microsoft is responsible for.

And please remind me when any OS has bent to make use of graphics hardware? Even Linux doesn't, those guys need to program their own drivers, and don't even mention OSX.

Most days I agree with you my fellow MAW Brother, but this day I think you may either need more stimulant, or sedative.

  • 03.30.2007 6:30 AM PDT

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