Ian McNaughton goes out against The Way it's Meant to be Played

[Farinorco]

Yes we all agree that ATI has poor to non existant developer support or relations to let things like this happen.

Best to let the developer answer as to why, my best guess is failed validation. Perfectly compatible? unknown at this time.

The last one before I go out to smoke a cigarette : What I mean is: I'm not arguing legality, or understanding of why that happens. What I'm trying to say it's that such a practice, it's detrimental to the consumer. NVIDIA is playing well their cards to gain a marketing advantage by screwing consumers. And if ATi does the same in the other side of things, we are all ed up...

We have standardization to allow free of choice in hw and intercompatibility with it all. If companies start to punish consumers because they don't have their hw, we all loose:

Suppose that B:AA doesn't let to do AA to people who has ATi (wow, difficult to imagine) when it could because it's compatible. Because ATi didn't pay to the developers.

Now suppose that DIRT 2 don't let NVIDIA use DX11 features (when they have a DX11 card). Because NVIDIA didn't pay to the developers.

Now suppose that no payings would have influence on developers. Don't you think that this practice is in detriment of the consumers? Are you serious?

I don't mind ATi or AMD or NVIDIA or any of them. I'm worry about the situation for the consumer, and I'm seeing lots of consumers defending this practice. Oh, it's really easy to avoid it, I know: buy only NVIDIA hw and you will have no problems.

And when AMD starts to do the same because if not they can't sell hw?

Poor or non existant developer relations? This have nothing to do with it. And it's been tryed and seen working with ATi cards, so it's compatible, it's not an unknown fact.

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EDIT (before the cigarette): AMD seems to have very good relationships with Blizzard. What if Diablo 3 would only run on ATi hw?