Valve – I’m not sure what EA said to get them to agree to a PS3 version of the game but they ended up agreeing somehow. They also should have done their best to ensure that they had final word over what was allowed to be shipped on the PS3 console.

EA – Well EA is EA. They like to get money from as many sources as possible. I can’t blame them for that but I can blame them for not ensuring that their product is of good quality, which, incidentally EA seems to do all too often.

Sony – Well as much as Sony is capable of making truly awesome hardware, they can’t figure out how to make it programmable without having a team dedicated to figuring out the hardware. One Sony spokesperson admitted that they messed up on the console with a lack of communications between the Hardware Team and the team responsible for writing their development systems.

I think it’s a shame what’s happened and I think all parties responsible should have worked together to get everything working properly. Quality should never be over looked when releasing a product. These software companies need to ensure that when they release a product, it will be something they can be proud of and their customers will enjoy. When they saw that things were not working out they should have contacted Sony.

Which brings me to Sony. Sony should be assembling a crack team of PS3 experts that can be utilized by anyone who wants to write on the PS3 platform. The biggest problem at the moment is not that people don’t want to put games out on the PS3. It’s that they’re punished for trying to.

Namely, almost every single point made in that statement was about valve and their intentions was wholly and totally off base.

Valve’s in business. Business exist to make money. If they spent the money on getting another team to port the game to the PS3 and it turned out to be a shabby job, do you think they’re going to just write it off as a loss and walk away? Or keep on flushing away money in the hopes it’s finally done right, even if it’s sales projections indicate that doing so would become unprofitable, and with still no guarantee that the game would turn out right in the end? No, of course not.

Of course valve *wanted* to make money off the PS3 port. And even if they just wanted to break even, Valve can read the writing on the wall. Console sales are increasing year by year, and PC games are become more and more like a niche industry by comparison. At the very least, they would want to build goodwill among PS3 console owners and the as-yet-untapped sector of gamers that represents. To say you think they wanted to ‘convince’ PS3 gamers that their console was inferior says more about you (like that you think the PS3 is inferior to PCs, or perhaps since you seem so emotional about this you have sought out emotional/irrational reasons for this issue). You’re either woefully misinformed about the way that the games industry (indeed, any industry) operates or willfully ignorant of it. You want a petition, fine. But at least be intelligent about your protest, and understand what’s really going on, instead of the completely misguided ideas you’re operating on.

The fact of the matter is EA is in the business to make profits. It’s not a social welfare for programmers. EA is responsible to it share holders and the sharemarket alike. Like it or not – this is a capitalist system. I just don’t understand why EA gets alot of critizism when they make sound business decisions based on current market conditions. EA is no different from any other listed company – its just that alot of people have emotional attachments to their products and systems EA supports. I know this is generalising the issue, but EA doesn’t make life support systems – not that I am aware of yet…

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lol please if you want to play a real version of the game that surpases Jesus just play the 360 version and burn that piece of black crap