Borderlands PC Version "Slightly Delayed"
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game development is very complicated. becasue the PC version is not fixed to a certain processor, memory, and video card/solution like the consoles, maybe something was overlooked on the PC which is not a hardware fixed platform.
Borderlands is not a PC game, it's a multiplatform game and i'm fine with Gearbox taking some time to fix something they find unacceptable for the PC version. this news is much better than the "we'll fix it with a patch" we get from a lot of devs. besides, Gearbox has not let me down before. it could be anything, a broken animation, to driver issues. have some faith in such a good development team.
I think his statement was insane enough to make it safe to assume it was sarcasm. Why would a game be optimized from the start (for any platform)?
Bort said it right. I don't think there's anyone out there who doesn't know what these 'excuses' mean. Every company delays the PC version these days and the reason is pretty simple - they need sales on the consoles just in case the game fails miserably (like Wolfenstein). In quantity, PC games are pirated more and bad news spread like wildfire...
As others mentioned (and being a programmer myself) i must say that it is it is highly unllikely that they set a fixed and very short amount of time for optimizing the PC version.
This is an outrage. Now dare they. This is unacceptable. and stuff...
If I use google translate on the marketing speak "We're optimizing the PC version which takes a few days longer than expected. Borderlands for PC will ship on October 26th.", I get "We found some serious bugs in the PC version which takes a few days longer to fix than expected. Borderlands for PC will ship on October 26th."
If I use google translate on the marketing speak "We're optimizing the PC version which takes a few days longer than expected. Borderlands for PC will ship on October 26th.", I get "We found some serious bugs in the PC version which takes a few days longer to fix than expected. Borderlands for PC will ship on October 26th."
Ever since companies found out people will pay for two copies of the game, two consoles, and two network service subscriptions to do multiplayer, games with proper multiplayer (that being splitscreen) stopped happening. Why give them splitscreen when you could force them to purchase more copies of the game to do the same thing?
And delayed exactly six days for "optimizing"? Come on Gearbox, we're not stupid. It's delayed to push sales on your desired platform, precisely the same as Twilight Princess. And every PC game that is pushed back from the simultaneous release on two to five consoles with completely different architectures.