I'm asking for your oppinion with this.........
Splinter Cell Double Agent is out, I found out by chance in my local store, took the opportunity and bought it 2 Days ago.
Now with my system, I never had to worry about system specs, hell, with 2 GB of RAM even Flight Simulator X runs on my Computer with decent performance....after a few tweaks ;-)
But what I encountered now really puts me in the mood to smash things apart.
SC Double Agent ONLY supports Pixel Shader 3.0 or better, since I have a Radeon X800 GTO, this is the end for me. Only 9 GC's are listed as "supported" on the cover, and....accidently 6 of them are Nvidia Cards
Additionally: there are NO technical reasons for this, the differences between 2.0 and 3.0 are minimal, if any.....
After searching for a patch in the Web, the only thing I found were forum topic's where you are being told by Ubisoft-Employees that there will NEVER be a patch, that system specs ARE high and they don't give a sh*t on those who don't fulfill these specs. They also state clearly that there ARE donations to their company made by hardware industry influencing which hardware a game does support. I'll post the links here if I find them again.
To me, it seems the days where Gaming Industry listens to players and customers are definitely over
I'm really upset by this since I wanted to play this game without buying a new computer. Now they really want us to be their money-making-machines without taking care of what kind of people we are and that not everyone is a millionaire who can afford a new computer every 6 months.
I now really think about launching an online protest campaign of some kind
