List of MP games that "Hold back" SSD users' loading times artificially.

gauvinic · June 26, 2014

Meh. If people paid for the hardware, there's no real reason the devs should artificially restrict them. I mean, do you have a problem with people who have

a faster Internet connection, better framerate, mouse, keyboard, or whatever else gives them an edge? For normal, everyday play, don't restrict hardware.

Rather, add a competitive mode. There you can set minimum hardware levels, and artificially limit everything. Otherwise, to me, its just like Ubisoft taking out

features they really could've left in. Essentially the same, except instead of intra-platform, inter-platform.

rentaspoon · June 26, 2014

My biggest problem with this is not the lack of an advantage from having an SSD, it's that developers don't give SSD purchase incentive to people who are SLOW AS HELL at adopting them. And people like that are holding games back. It's quite obviously better for everyone to play 8 games per hour over 5 games per hour, just by cutting down loading time.

Also, in Natural Selection 2 I only play aliens, so if I load into a map and alien team is full, I just leave, which is bad for everyone (especially since I'm amazing)

TL;DR - my goal is not to have an advantage - it's to make sure EVERYONE has SSDs because developers of competitive games should give them incentive to.

I don't think that developers should give incentives to specific hardware, developers that push usually end up alienating there community, what would make sense is to have load screens that have a chat and loadout screen even mini game.

5, 10, 15 games doesn't matter, for me its playing one entire game of BF4 and walking away with 1000 points per game, knowing it's the only game I'm gonna have the entire and I've wasted it because I've traveled so far by foot because I don't want people hearing me, to be sniped because that one person has a 40x scope.