Bungie won’t bring Destiny to PC, because nobody uses mouse and keyboard for shooters anymore
By Tim Colwill on February 18, 2013 at 1:27 pm
In an early contender for “Statement Most Likely To Be Retracted And/Or Clarified Tomorrow”, Bungie’s co-founder Jason Jones has shed light on why the company won’t be bringing their new, quite excellent-looking shooter Destiny to the PC — because nobody plays shooters “the way they used to” anymore, including with keyboard and mouse.
“We did a bunch of ambitious things on Halo deliberately to reach out to people,” claimed Jones to Destructoid. “We limited players to two weapons, we gave them recharging health, we automatically saved and restored the game — almost heretical things to first-person shooters at the time.”
“We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard. And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo ’cause nobody wants to.”
Jones stops just short of directly suggesting that nobody plays shooters on PC anymore, but the implication is there. My prediction for tomorrow: “What we meant was that Halo changed the way first-person shooters worked forever, and that nobody plays ‘old-school’ shooters anymore. We’re not ruling out a release on PC at this time, but we have no current plans.”
Watch this space. In the meantime, you can watch this documentary on Destiny showing gameplay footage that came out overnight, courtesy of VG247.
Source: Destructoid (thanks, PalZer0)
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F***ING WHAT NOW?!
“We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard. And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo ’cause nobody wants to.”………… WHAT IN THE *********************.
I’ve never heard such total utter crap in all my life. I don’t think I will EVER play a shooter without a mouse and keyboard. In fact despite owning a PS3, I don’t own a single shooter game on there for that very reason!
Just…oh….ARGH….*facepalm*
Tantrum in 5…4…3…2…1…
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP WHAT ARE BUNGIE THINKING SAYING SHIT LIKE THAT? IT’S OUTRAGEOUS AND I CONSIDER IT AN INSULT! YOU HEAR ME? iNSULT INSULT INSULT INSULT INSULT INSULT INSULT INSULT!
*BOOM!*
EDIT: Also, Halo on PC says hello.
It looks like a comment that needs to be clarified, and I’m sure it will be. As if anybody would be silly enough to say “nobody uses mouse and keyboard to play fps’s any more.” In fact, reading the comment it just looks like it’s vaguely hinting that’s what he’s saying rather than outright blatantly saying it.
and 640k should be enough for anyone!
Haha, what an absolute moron!
If current gen consoles had proper mouse & keyboard support, the majority of players would be using them for FPS games.
“We limited players to two weapons, we gave them recharging health, we automatically saved and restored the game — almost heretical things to first-person shooters at the time.”
Precisely the reason I have no desire to own an eks-bawks, nor play any “halo” or “cawadoody” games.
Looking forward to Bioshock Infinite’s proper Pc care, port, features and 1999 mode….
No one wants old school shooters, because Halo was just so amazing it made everything before it look terrible.
That’s why Serious Sam is doing well and Rise of the Triad is coming back.
The people that still play Doom today must be filthy plebs who never experienced the glory of Halo.
The most retarded thing I’ve read in a while…. Just lol …
Well, there’s my laugh for the week already gone.
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This is so retarded I honestly don’t have a come back or comment, aside from this explanation. I’m stunned by the stupidity.
It doesn’t need clarification.
Compare console sales vs PC for all the big-name shooters.
Right… even though they do http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Mouse-Keyboard-Converter-Playstation-3/dp/B0040UAYI4?tag=vglnk-c918-20
Face it people, you know he’s right. theman902, XViper, Slazza, and Stoibs, your comments gave me a good chuckle for the cognitive dissonance whenever someone says something outside of your worldly view.
WTF Bungie!
No one uses keyboard and mouse for gaming no more you craz craz??
Pretty sure they use a keyboard and mouse to build the game from scratch
like drep drep!
naturally they wouldn’t know as the last time they put a game on PC (Halo 2) was over 5 years ago and haven’t touched it since.
@Forumrabbit, read again. “Bungie won’t bring Destiny to PC”
“bring Destiny to PC”
“PC”
This isn’t about Consoles vs PC’s, this is about Bungie’s stupidity in not knowing about PC gaming in general, especially in the game types they make. (FPS)
Turn off aim assist, come play any FPS vs mouse wielding players. Top controller users will get munched by average mouse users.
forumrabbit,
I disagree. The only reason I had to suffer through Halo 4 with the damn controller is because it was my only option. I couldn’t load it on my pc and have the glory of the mouse and keyboard because there was no option.
Same thing with most of the shooters these days, There’s basically no option save for playing on the damn console with the stupid aim assist because the controllers analog sticks aren’t anywhere near as precise as a mouse.
We’re being pushed, as gamers, into these god awful controllers for FPS because that’s what the console companies want. Not being given a choice is the reason those stats are some damn high.
Far Cry 3 sold over 4 million units. A quarter of which were on PC. Far Cry 3 is the most recent AAA shooter I can think of, and it’s PC market was very substantial.
During the height of the recent console generation there were a lot of developers claiming that PC was dead, and many of them that laughed at the PC are now coming back around, retracting their statements and eating some humble pie.
PC sales as a percentage of total sales have been trending upwards for the last few years, and while they will likely never dominate that genre of games again, it would be a bit foolish to throw away such a substantial percentage of the market. I expect a “clarification” soon.
forumrabbit,
My personal opinion that modern day dumbing down of first person shooters is no-where near as great as the the past is cause for chuckle? What an odd statement.. would you like to hear my favorite colour too, you might find it hysterical.
Need another cross platform “Shadowrun” thrashing to remind people how more intuitive mouse+keyboard is…. bearing in mind most of these Console Fps’s have some sort of auto aim to boot.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1642845
Did I miss the part where he said no one uses a keyboard and mouse? I saw the part where Destructoid made a massive assumption and put words in his mouth because it makes for interesting reading…
He was listing things that Halo did that were (perhaps arguably on some points) revolutionary. He then summarises with “And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo ’cause nobody wants to.”
If you read it like this, which is most likely how he intended it to be read, then it makes perfect sense. There are certainly points to be made that disagree with his assessment, but unlike the mouse and keyboard “comment”; it is not blatantly wrong.
I very much doubt the statement will be retracted, clarified yes but only because of what was read into it.
forumrabbit,
Ok then, go plug in your mouse & keyboard directly into the consoles and play some games using them.
Oh wait, you can’t because the games don’t have native support.
Just lol.
Pretty sure it is code for “we don’t want to port” because I find FPS on consoles to be largely unsatisfying – including Halo (which in another tangent is overrated imo and only rode the wave of new gen gamers on, a then, new gen system.) I find the control of a mouse and keyboard much more responsive and much more enjoyable.