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PC fans might have a bone to pick with Epic Games, as the release of a PC demo after the game goes on sale could be seen as more of an insult than a service. Once again, it’s bad news for the PC gaming crowd. Let’s put it this way: now would not be a good time to be filtering through Epic Games‘ fan mail.
The announcement came via Twitter, as Vice President of Epic Games informed the public that the “Bulletstorm PC demo is in the works! “BULLETSTORM DEMO COMING TO 360/PS3 JANUARY 25th. In other news, PC gamers are grumpy about this.”
PC developer Crytek starts things off by saying Epic’s engine couldn’t handle their game, and Epic fires back by implying that PC gamers are a little excitable and easy to anger. The truth is, there probably couldn’t be more of a poster child for the cockiness and unabashed confidence of the modern console market than Epic Games and Cliff Bleszinski. Hopefully, Epic telling PC owners that they’ll have to wait if they want to try out Bulletstorm before purchasing the game is just the beginning of the showdown. Entering comment threads proclaiming that “console gaming is dead LOL,” or that “PC games are for nerds” isn’t entertaining anybody but the flame warriors.
PC gamers could accuse consoles of keeping graphics from advancing, and of living in the gaming stone age, but console owners could just as easily snap back by breaking it to PC owners that the most successful games are designed for the console market, and PC gamers just pirate games anyway.
Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein used social-networking site Twitter to make the bittersweet announcement. Meanwhile Epic Games is inviting video game players to a live chat with design director Cliff Bleszinski.
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