MetalMilitia
Feb 10th, 2006, 12:36 PM
No doubt some of you will already have picked up on THIS (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=711) story, but for those who haven't, basically Bungie has stated that Halo 2 will be ported to PC but only playable on Windows Vista.
There are a few things which come to mind when I read this; firstly that Halo 2 sucks so who cares, but also that this could potentially lead to huge ammounts of piracy. Assuming the game will be using DX10 (formally known as Windows graphics foundation) and this is the reason they are trying to justify the fact they will only be releasing for the Vista platform.
Im guessing that DX10 will be backwards compatible with Windows XP (although there is a pretty high possibility that unlike the previous versions, DX10 will be more than a simple update to the COMM files making backwards compatibilty complicated), so once some enterprising young cracker cracks the game and releases it for XP everyone and their mother will be downloading the game instead of buying it.
It does sound suspiciously like a nafarious plan to force Halo fans to buy Vista but there is always the possibility that they genuinly want to make a good game to take advantage of Vista's plethora of new features and development for XP and Vista would simply be too time consuming.
There are a few things which come to mind when I read this; firstly that Halo 2 sucks so who cares, but also that this could potentially lead to huge ammounts of piracy. Assuming the game will be using DX10 (formally known as Windows graphics foundation) and this is the reason they are trying to justify the fact they will only be releasing for the Vista platform.
Im guessing that DX10 will be backwards compatible with Windows XP (although there is a pretty high possibility that unlike the previous versions, DX10 will be more than a simple update to the COMM files making backwards compatibilty complicated), so once some enterprising young cracker cracks the game and releases it for XP everyone and their mother will be downloading the game instead of buying it.
It does sound suspiciously like a nafarious plan to force Halo fans to buy Vista but there is always the possibility that they genuinly want to make a good game to take advantage of Vista's plethora of new features and development for XP and Vista would simply be too time consuming.