Warmonger101
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- Oct 19, 2009
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Except the majority of PC gamers know what they're in for and to a certain extend enjoy fucking around with their PCs. If they didn't, they'd buy a console instead. You can't call someone gullible for repairing their own car if they enjoy doing it.
And the choice to spend hours and hours screwing around with drivers and hardware is a "choice" of the gamer. I've set up PCs for friends, spent half an hour installing a few programs and drivers, then they take it and game on it without touching it again. I've rarely NEEDED to screw around to get gaming things working on my computer... though I have spent many hours getting my work software up and running, that's work though, not entertainment
The dealership sells me a part and says, oh yeah, just plug it right in. You go home, plug it right in, and the car still doesn't run. Yeah, after three hours, I can see the fun in that! I've been there, done that. At some point in time, I'd like to drive the fuckin car, not work on it. I build my computers to be productive or play games. After, it's built, I want to see the damn thing perform, not crash in the middle of a game. Check the forum, you find complaint after complaint. If you care to reason why, it's because they just spent $50 on a damn game and problems prevent them from enjoying it.
I know, you'll reason that they "ENJOY' taking the time away from gamin because the game won't play right, and that they 'ENJOY' taking the time to exclaim "help!" in a fourm. Don't confuse the "Gamer" with the "Computer Expert Wannabe". The Wannabe may love it when the system crashes. Another opportunity to tweek something they got wrong in the first place. I'm a Gamer and I can't rashionalize myself into enjoying system crashes just at the moment when I was going to tear some ass. You can rashionalize anyway it suits you best. I've got no problem with it.