Dark Souls for PC: Petition

[Tesral]

I already have this game on 360, but I still vote for bringing it to PC. I wouldn't want any of our PC brethren to be left out of this game (which I personally prefer to Skyrim, flameshields actived). Kinda lame that I never got to play Demons Souls for cause I don't own a PS3.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

why not just get a ps3? You can get one for the price of a decent ram upgrade

Cause people don't want a PS3; they don't care about it, they don't feel the need for it, etc.

They just want a chance to enjoy the game on PC.

 

[Amaror]

why not just get a ps3? You can get one for the price of a decent ram upgrade

Well then show me the shop that sells a ps 3 for 40 bucks, i'll wait...

 

[Ickorus]

So, his only point was "People who primarily play games on a PC would probably enjoy it, so they should get it.".

I bet people that primarily game on an NES would probably enjoy it, too. PETITION TO HAVE DARK SOULS MADE FOR NES!!

I really couldn't care less about your choice of platform or why you chose it, but if you want a company to spend money on something for you, you've got to come up with a better reason than "I think people will buy it and like it.".

I don't think there needs to be any more reason than that, if people buy it they make lots of money from it and if people like it there's a chance they'll earn fans who will spend hundreds more on their other games.

A few too many ifs in there to be worth the money it would take to port and tweak it for PC.

Companies don't take risks and hope they'll make some money. They take the sure thing and make tons of money. Porting Dark Souls to PC isn't a guaranteed win for them. A few thousand signatures on an internet filled with a few thousand of signatures for other things won't change that.

At the moment of writing this over 27,000 people have said they want the game and if it was sold at a base price of £35 that means Namco Bandai would make over £950,000; and this is just day two of the petition.

27,000 signatures =/= 27,000 guaranteed sales. Plenty of people in this thread signed while stating that they're not getting it. Then there are the people that can't afford it, and the people that just decide they don't want it when it comes out.

27,000 signatures may as well be none, because none of them are guarantees.

Do you know anything about business? It's called market research, maybe everyone won't buy the game but it's a good fucking estimate.

If we lived by the logic 'if it's not guaranteed don't try it' we'd still be living in caves without even the benefit of fire because trying to start one might not work so it's not worth even trying.

 

[TallestGargoyle]

hahah i think its great that the elitist pc crowd miss out on awesome games like this.

Dark Souls is my personal game of the year.

i own a PC, and an Xbox, but i dont feel the need to tell anyone and everyone why one is superior than the other.

get off your high horse and buy a console

So you're not an elitist, you just want everyone to own a console instead, rather than support an initiative to get a superb game on more platforms than it currently is?

And I'm meant to be the jerk PC gamer...

I mean fuck, this is the problem with console exclusives in general. PC is left in the dark from some amazing experiences. Likewise PC has some games of its own, and it's a shame console players don't get to play them. The STALKER and Witcher series are excellent, and deserve to be on consoles (It's a massive shame that they aren't), as much as Dark Souls should have a PC release too.

Get of YOUR high horse and help get Dark Souls on everything! Then we wouldn't have to complain when excellent games come out for consoles and not the PC. The PC platform has support for much higher quality visuals (Compare Battlefield 3 on 360/PS3 to even a sub-par gaming rig and it's simply better in so many ways), larger numbers of online players, and mods! Imagine what modders would be capable of doing if they could mod Dark Souls. Fuck it, help us even more by requesting an end to console exclusive games whenever you get the chance to.

And anyway, you're an XBox player? Consider yourself lucky you got Dark Souls, since you don't have Demon's Souls. The withering PS3 fanboy in me wants to scream and laugh in your face before it coughs its last to the mighty (and if Steam's data is to be trusted, currently EXPONENTIALLY BOOMING) PC fanboy crying out for a Dark Souls PC release.

 

[Beryl77]

I'd buy it if they released it on the PC. I haven't played demon souls or dark souls but all the talk about the really high difficulty has intrigued me. Sadly, I don't own a consolea nd I don't know anyone who owns the game,so I can't play it.
I've seen a lot of activity about this on many different forums. It seems like there really is quite a big demand for this, enough to justify porting the game to the PC. Hopefully From Software sees that two.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

CUT

You are wasting your time trying to give a sensible explanation.

For these people doesn't take too much to be "a PC elitist asshole".
in their eyes that definition pretty much extend to anyone who likes PC more as platform and dare to claim it openly.
It doesn't matter if there are more than reasonable points to think so and everyone is entitled to his own opinion (as far as it is a well informed one). They just can't stand it.

 

[TallestGargoyle]

why not just get a ps3? You can get one for the price of a decent ram upgrade

Well then show me the shop that sells a ps 3 for 40 bucks, i'll wait...

so you've only ever spent 40 dollars upgrading your ram?

I recently spent £20 on a great pair of 2GB RAM sticks. DDR3, decent spec... Only time I should ever have to upgrade them (thanks to consoles draining any form of decent development in a game's capabilities) is when DDR4 (or whatever they'll decide to call it) comes out.

 

[keiskay]

why not just get a ps3? You can get one for the price of a decent ram upgrade

Well then show me the shop that sells a ps 3 for 40 bucks, i'll wait...

so you've only ever spent 40 dollars upgrading your ram?

ram is incredibly cheap now you can 4gb of ddr3 ram at 1666mhz for 30$ and not crappy ram good ram, crappy ram you can 4gbs for about 15-20. now if you said a graphics card or processor upgrade you would be right.

 

[Dansen]

While I would love for Dark Souls to get more exposure, this isn't going to happen.