Quote Originally Posted by Crash-Headroom View Post
...I don't know which post to respond to!! XD.

Well, can't find the vid off hand but i know crowbcat made one taking the piss out of it. RTS is indeed shit on consoles...which is why "RTS is a dead genre man its SOOO shit!" Because they cant make money off it on consoles Which is ALSO why even though i may not like the new X-Com games, i tolerate them because fraxis tried and PROVED RTS is still a valid genre, if only for PC. While on the subject of RTS, OpenRA is getting bigger and bigger because there's nothing else around XD they've had to make make a fuckton of new servers because ofit. If it was like it used to be and pc didnt care about console and vice versa things would still be fun and innovative, but companies want dat MONEH and it lies in the console users pockets...not in the pc market XD We don't like being screwed over! I find it funny articles are written saying "PC users are disgusting because they dont like paying over 20 pound / 30 dollers for a game!" ...no, we dont like paying over 20 pound for JUST DATA! Not even a CD or something to put in your hand, its 40-60 pound/dollers now for data and some people also have to contend with ISP bandwidths (australia is still kind of fucked on that front...i used to cringe when my freind would tell me tales of telstra, steam was almost a no go).
The good old days, when the biggest titles were $40 - $50 and everything else was $30 or less .

Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
Yes the net in Australia sucks. I really need to upgrade to 12 or 25Mbps fixed wireless as I'm still using 1.5Mbps ADSL atm...but it would mean paying more than double what I am now plus I'd have to switch to a dynamic IP

Even with the higher speeds in major cities (100Mbps) there's lag afaik, it's a complete joke for online gaming.
The situation isn't much better in the US if you live anywhere rural. The major ISPs all have tons of money but refuse to offer service to smaller areas and barely want to update infrastructure for big areas. They're also still avoiding competing with each other and only servicing select areas in cities unless something changed very recently.