http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/07/dark-souls-will-not-be-optimised-for-pc-%E2%80%9Cstrictly-a-port-from-the-console-version%E2%80%9D/

Has no one seriously read this, because there are too many of you guys out there that want Dark Souls for PC, I have to let the world know about this heresy!

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Well, here's the way i look at this. They said they have no experience with PC development, and if this turns out to rather profitable that may change that, but at the same time i see this as a double edged sword. They may think it doesn't matter what they do aslong as it is out on pc and does well, which they'll think "It doesn't matter, so well just toss it up half-assed", but on the other end if this does well then they may go "Well, we better get to working on it making it a proper PC version on future games", which would hopefully mean we'd get more PC versions of this series and hopefully more games from them and other devs that otherwise think the only people that would buy their games are only on consoles(JRPGs mostly here, since there is very few of them on PC)

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Don't blow the whole shitty port thing out of proportion. The only major slow down I had was in Blighttown. Even that wasn't game breaking or constant. Other then that I honestly had no problems. (PS3 version)

Also they are a dev with barely any PC experience as they said in the article. So chill.

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I think it's the "we don't know how to port games to PC, and we don't have time to learn before we have to ship this game" aspect of the news that is getting to people. Well, aside from the anti-console-port brigade.

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At least they are sincere about their problems, not "we have never ported a game to PC, but this is gonna be the best PC game ever, totally no slowdowns here! You can even use keyboard and mouse, what more could you ask for?" We'll wait and see.

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I'll give them points for being honest and up-front about it.

As long as it's not as bad as GTAIV PC. GTAIV at least has the excuse of being from 2008, when PC ports were just assumed to be barely-adapted shit.

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As long as people accept and buy bad ports, they will keep making bad ports. In economy, one votes with money and you get what you vote for.

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If its not as bat as GTA4 - no problem ;)

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