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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Is that actually the reason GOW never came to PC? I never heard that, but it was also before I had a gaming PC. So it’s not like I was actively invested in whether or not it was available.

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DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yep. Piracy.

www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/…/1/

The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips," said Cliff.

“Here’s the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.”

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  He said that in 2006 so I guess it kinda made sense. It should have been re-released long before that though
  
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