siegecraft4
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2003
- Messages
- 324
I have several points to make:
First, to those users uninstalling all Futuremark programs from their computers and posting screenshots, please, your acting pretty immature. Do you really believe that Futuremark cares if you uninstall their application when most of you never payed for them in the first place? The real money comes from those who pay for the the Professional verson and those companies who sponser the benchmark.You are behaving like little children throwing a tantrum.
Second, I believe that HardOCP's behavior in this matter has been less than professional. While I agree that HardOCP is entitled to its opinions and can express them in any way they choose, comments such as "little doggy barking up the wrong tree," "sucks," and "you guys aren't Americans" have no place on a site which is supposed to represent us all.
Not all HardOCP readers think Futuremark employees are foreigners ignorant to American freedoms. Comments such as this will ostracize companies from dealing with HardOCP in the future and only cause legal issues for the site. This is the era of frivilous lawsuits, and this kind of behavior will embroil HardOCP in more than it can handle.
Finally, I would like to make a comment about the usefulness of 3dmark. Overall, the concept of a universal benchmark for 3d performance is a good one. Yet, the idea can never be implemented sucessfully because of the varying architecture of the two primary competing solutions on the market, and because the implications of losing such an all important benchmark are huge. The concept of one definining graphics benchmark is dead, because, as has been demonstrated by the latest series of games, each architecture has strengths and weaknesses. To define a system's performance in terms of some vague "marks" which have no correlation to image quality or framerate, no longer make sense. Also, a benchmark which cripples the latest high end hardware does not make sense in any application besides marketing.
The age of 3dmarks is over. HardOCP may be the first to realize this among the enthusiast sites. I hope it can rise to Futuremark's challange. It is my sincere hope that it can do so in a manner that will not alienate other companies or misrepresent the larger community.
First, to those users uninstalling all Futuremark programs from their computers and posting screenshots, please, your acting pretty immature. Do you really believe that Futuremark cares if you uninstall their application when most of you never payed for them in the first place? The real money comes from those who pay for the the Professional verson and those companies who sponser the benchmark.You are behaving like little children throwing a tantrum.
Second, I believe that HardOCP's behavior in this matter has been less than professional. While I agree that HardOCP is entitled to its opinions and can express them in any way they choose, comments such as "little doggy barking up the wrong tree," "sucks," and "you guys aren't Americans" have no place on a site which is supposed to represent us all.
Not all HardOCP readers think Futuremark employees are foreigners ignorant to American freedoms. Comments such as this will ostracize companies from dealing with HardOCP in the future and only cause legal issues for the site. This is the era of frivilous lawsuits, and this kind of behavior will embroil HardOCP in more than it can handle.
Finally, I would like to make a comment about the usefulness of 3dmark. Overall, the concept of a universal benchmark for 3d performance is a good one. Yet, the idea can never be implemented sucessfully because of the varying architecture of the two primary competing solutions on the market, and because the implications of losing such an all important benchmark are huge. The concept of one definining graphics benchmark is dead, because, as has been demonstrated by the latest series of games, each architecture has strengths and weaknesses. To define a system's performance in terms of some vague "marks" which have no correlation to image quality or framerate, no longer make sense. Also, a benchmark which cripples the latest high end hardware does not make sense in any application besides marketing.
The age of 3dmarks is over. HardOCP may be the first to realize this among the enthusiast sites. I hope it can rise to Futuremark's challange. It is my sincere hope that it can do so in a manner that will not alienate other companies or misrepresent the larger community.