Bioshock Infinite

[the dark side]

Exactly, and it is sticking to direct x 9 wich is causing all the issues, jaggies, muddy textures, slow frame rate, it is out of date, we are on direct x 11 b now, there is no excuse other than 360 compatability to still use direct x 9, i am sorry if this sounds elitist, but, why should people who have more up to date systems like a PC or PS3 have to put up with technoligically castrated games because they have to work on an outdated system like 360, it makes buying a ps3 or pc for there superior abilities a waste of money, companies need to drop 360 support, as its resulting in too many issues in graphics and game reliability, and thats the real kicker, when i pay money for a game, i expect it to work, properly, at least 90% of the time, instead, im getting bugs and glitches every 5 minuites, and i feel like I have been ripped off.

yes, bioshock 1 was art, but it was art wrapped around a proper FPS, Infinite, sadly, is just a unique art style wrapped around a copy and paste "modern shooter" gameplay experience (wich i cannot abide!), and to me, that simply is Not good enough.

i can see why they have done it, thanks to my business education, and its to attract the younger "casual" market, but my business education, and the fates of other games that primarilly appeal to an older audience that have "gone modern" in order to attract a "casual audience", such as "Duke Nukem", tells me that all they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot, the casual market, in the majority (over 80%) only buys First Person Perspective games that have one of Three golden Franchise names on them, "Call Of Duty", "HALO" and "Battlefield" , they wont buy bioshock, because it doesnt have any of those names, and the Majority of people who do buy games like Bioshock, tend to be older, hardcore/elitist players, who will flip there wigs at the modernised gameplay and will troll and flame like hell on a keyboard about it!.. sure, there are people out there who will buy the game and love the game for its art style and story, and more power to them.

But..

Mainstream, Non Indie, Games Publishing is a Business, a Big One, and Big Business has no room for Semantics or Sentimentality or Loyalty. That market who will buy the game and love it for its story and art style is 2 million Global units, tops. In todays games industry anything less than 10 million global unit sales is a "Flop", and a "Flop" is "unsustainable". so, its "franchise cancellation" due to being "an unsustainable unpopular IP that doesn't appeal in the current marketplace" and bye bye developer as it either gets sold to EA, Ubisoft or Activision to "recoup losses", or simply closed down to "save money by not having unessesary assets", because the game fell short of sales targets, and the publisher lost a lot of Money because of that, wich is bad for business. hey, if you dont beleive me, just ask a Businessman.