#SEGAPCPorts a campain where we demand Sega to port (VF5, Vanquish, Bayonetta, ETC) to PC

Petition to stop petitions?

I'd actually sign that one.

Also stop asking for console ports, the ones that are intended to be real PC games, and just end up like half-finished garbage are already destorying customer loyality towards franchises, games, series, and companies that were worthy.

+no company cares about petitions, unless their product killed someone, which -in this industry- is not the case.

What does "Do we feel the PC market can support this game?" even mean? If it's asking whether it'd be popular, wouldn't that tie into "Is the port likely to be economical?"?

Bayonetta has sold 2m, Vanquish sold 940k and Virtua Fighter 5 sold around 1.5m in total across all versions. They're all older games and likely would be priced at $19.99 or less.

Those picked out those titles for the petition by asking themselves those questions.

Basically they looked at a title and asked.
Can the PC markets support the game. (as in enough people to buy it to make it worth the money to port). If yes, it makes it to the next question. Also if there are already lots of games just like it the chances of people buying it because its different go down.

Is the port likely to be economical. (how much is it going to cost to port it) (Note this would logically be the first question thought about, maybe right after what games are popular but are not on PC) Course this is one of the biggest unknowns to people who have not worked on games in general or the titles specifically. How much it will cost to port depends on a number of things. How easy is the code to convert? How large is the code? How many people worked on the game originally? Does the game depend on anything like a console specific item or access to a console specific server or what ever.

Are we asking for too much at once? (maybe 7 games is too much to ask to be ported, lets try 3 or 4 and see where that gets us.)

So asking those questions of themselves is how they narrowed it down to those specific titles and they wanted people to know how they picked those specific titles.

Alpha Protocol is an Obsidian game (one of the best RPG I ever played), Obsidian is making Pillars of Eternity right now and I don't think they have any time for Alpha Protocol 2.

Bayonetta is from Platinum Games. Platinum Games are making Bayonetta 2 right now and I don't think they have any time for a Bayonetta port.

Sorry, but I thought it was fitting after your reply. I would have thrown in the fact that Alpha Protocol only sold 780k and that they're also working on South Park: The Stick of Truth.

Have it on Dreamcast <3

Are you serious??? Sega only bought Atlus (not to be confused with Atlus USA who is only a publisher) a few months ago! Even though Persona is popular, Atlus didn't have the money to re-tool the entire game for PC. Yes, I would love Persona on PC, but we would have to wait a while and maybe Persona 6 on PS4 will get ported because it has similar architecture as a PC.

Honestly, I don't believe this petition will do anything for the niche games. We all know that Japanese developers have shown that they are reluctant to release niche games on PC because of rampant piracy, lack of knowledge of the PC market and their core audience is mainly on consoles. With the advent of Steam, it is looking like they are finally accepting it. So it will be a while before we can expect big jrpgs to come to Steam. Trails in the Sky FC & SC is coming soon and will be amazing, but that is only because XSEED is taking control. Once Japanese devs develop their games with the PC in mind, along with their main release platform, we will finally see a consistent stream of Japanese games on Steam.