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Atlas, because it holds many worlds upon its shoulders, virtual though they may be.

Yeah, it's possible this is just a minor revision with a couple of changes that mean little to nothing. A revision is not an entire product revamp, like with the slimmer versions of consoles in the previous generations. A lot of the time people don't even know which revision that a product they own is, and it makes little to no difference.

It's cool that we wouldn't have to be limited by the display anymore, but we'd still be limited by whatever the device is outputting. You'll still have a lower quality image from a console or whatever your PC would put out. Just because you can't see pixels doesn't mean the fidelity of the image isn't being limited by them.

I still don't believe that number. Most single parts that the PS4 is made of have a higher failure rate than that, so for everything to be put together into a single device you'd think it would at least be at least on par with the PS3 rates. 0.4% is absurdly low, not as absurdly low as the previous 0.04%, but still.

My fucking reason for latching onto it is because I can barely run the game on my $300 GPU when games that have better options in better engines run perfectly fine. That's reason enough.

Because in Ubi's perfect world the PC would never exist as a gaming platform, and we would all be on one of their easily controlled fairy garden platforms. In their view of reality we're all a bunch of thieves who don't deserve to be treated as well as their other paying customers, because some people on the PC who aren't their paying customers have, according to them, damaged their sales. It's like slaughtering the crowd for a crime only a few committed, and it's dumb. They do design the game on PC and port it to consoles, they just don't pay any attention to actually making sure it runs efficiently on consumer hardware.

Yeah, it was all just a wonderful misunderstanding. Glad we got it all worked out. Let me go back to playing AC4 with medium environment settings and pretty much everything else set to low/off now that I know they actually optimized it to run efficiently on the PC. Oh wait, no, I'm not going to do that. This changes nothing. I'm legitimately pissed off by the performance of this game I was looking forward to.

Well, that's lovely for you, but when I can't maintain even a smooth 30 FPS on a $300 card at 1080p with settings below medium, no matter who has exclusive driver privileges for it, then there's an issue with the game. Sometimes it can be excused, especially if a developer know it's an issue, or when it looks like Star Citizen or BF4 (keep in mind BF4 can run at a mostly consistent 60 FPS with max settings on my setup, and that was in the pre-release). But when they know it's an issue, and they basically come out and tell me that it's an issue I don't care about, on top of previously calling me a thief, and delaying something for nearly a month after it was released on five other platforms, one of which I know is a smaller market segment than PC, then they can just go right on and fuck themselves. They've lost a frequent customer in me. Other people can go ahead and forgive them... again, if they wish. I, however, am through. It's a shame really. I'm starting to run out of AAA publishers, and among them Ubisoft has some IPs I really enjoy.

Revelations isn't AC4. I can't get a stable framerate without drops below 30 on any settings with my 280X. People with equivalent NVIDIA cards aren't doing much better, despite it being an NVIDIA title.

Yeah, except the problem being that even SLI Titans can't run the bloody thing, so what exactly are we meant to do? This isn't a matter of developers saying "Look, this game is going to push the bar graphically, and if you can't handle the level of fidelity that we worked hard to craft, you're going to have to upgrade from your GTX 460." This is like them saying that if you want to play a game that looks worse than games released years ago, like Witcher 2, which can be maxed (sans ubersampling) on sub-$300 cards at or near 60+ FPS, you need to dish out $1000+ on GPU power (and even then, it won't work smoothly). That's inexcusable, and I'm completely sick of Ubisoft treating us like we're second class customers, just so they can use their publishing power to push us to platforms with less "thieves." This is the end, I'm through with them. I tolerated them layering DRM with their shitty steam ripoff that doesn't work for half of the things it's supposed to do half the time, and I just ever so barely tolerated them artificially delaying games to sell or double sell their products on financially more advantageous platforms. But this is the last straw I'm going to tolerate of their flippant neglect of a good and growing segment of paying customers. I'm done.

Hell, we can't even handle 1080p on cable and satellite networks, and they think pushing 8K is a good idea? Fat chance. Call me when H.268 is the standard.

Not all games enjoy being minimized. There are quite a few that will crash if you attempt to go and unpause downloads by tabbing out.

Does this include the update to Windows 8.1?

It is the same. Do the PSN terms of service only apply to games releases this generation? Unless something has happened recently that I'm unaware of, the Vita and PS3 operate on PSN as well. Are they going to stop taking used games for Sony games tomorrow? Most media is not technically supposed to be resold (hell, most things non-media as well) if you ask the legal team of the companies' responsible for that media lawyers.

It doesn't matter. What do you think is about to happen? Do you think suddenly a day before release Sony is going to say "lolnousedgames", burn all their bridges with every retailer that deals in used titles instantly, and point at the less than a paragraph in their ToS to tell you why? It will be the end of them in the console space if they pull something like that. The PSN ToS is first and foremost the first line of defense to cover their butts legally, like any other one. Terms like this can be useful for any number of things, like preventing customers from blaming Sony if any of the publishers decide to lock down content that's on the disc, like so many of them do these days, or preventing those publishers from blaming Sony for allowing customers to be sold an incomplete or nonfunctional product. It covers software as well, which is already locked down. Sony will be sued to hell if they misled the consumer in the way people are assuming they must be, and they'd face governmental charges as well in a lot of places. This whole issue is removed from reality.