Complaints about 'Gears of War' coming to iOS?!

[tsharpfilm]

A creative director for one of the top game development companies in the world announced that a Gears of War type game (94% on metacritic) could be coming to iOS in 2 years. With an announcement like this, you'd expect cheers, encouragement, and a renewed enthusiasm about being an iDevice owner...

Not quite...

Instead, we get this...

"gears of war..is ok but i want mass effect 2"

"Apple always going to be behind nintendo"

"Seriously, a game using a certain engine means diddly squat."

"I'm not a big Gears of War fan, but I would love to see Mass Effect done with this!"

"I love my iPod and iPad, I just know that a DS, PSP, or god forbid CONSOLE gaming experience is never going to be possible."

"Console titles will never be ported to portable systems WELL."

"Yah, because everyone should drink the kool aid, no questions asked, right?"

Are you kidding me...

First off, instead of always wanting MORE (eg Mass Effect), maybe we could at least appreciate the fact we have some pretty big companies thinking about making high-end games for our devices? The same can't be said for Palm, Blackberry, or even Android.

And second, words like "always" and "never" should never be used when it comes to technology. Many of the things that were "impossible" 100 years ago are very possible now. Think about it. Just 10 years ago, who could have imagined we'd have a device like the iPhone 4 that could run realtime 3D graphics at 60fps on a small display with pixels so small they can't even be distinguished?

Personally, I'm VERY excited about the idea of a Gears of War type game coming to iOS.

Thank you EPIC for supporting our platform!

[Stirolak26]

I'd rather have that chaosOr shadow complex game now than gears of war in the future or at any point.

[MasterChief3624]

All I say is: Whatevs.

Should be common sense by now that people will continue complaining until they get everything they want, and that will never happen, so they'll keep complaining and playing announcements off as trivial.

I am not personally a Gears of War fan, but it would be interesting to see how it works on the iDevice. I'm all for it

[Teknikal]

Judging by Black Pegasus a recent fps game I found impressive and the Epic Citadel demo I don't see why it couldn't be achieved technically with enough work and time.

I have some serious doubts over whether Microsoft would allow it though I wouldn't in their shoes so I think the chances are close to zero.

[tsharpfilm]

Originally Posted by MasterChief3624

All I say is: Whatevs.

Lol. I wish I could be as equanimous.

Should be common sense by now that people will continue complaining until they get everything they want, and that will never happen, so they'll keep complaining and playing announcements off as trivial.

Yeah, and that's really too bad. I've done my fair share of complaining, but at a certain point you just have to know when to stop.

[dumaz1000]

Gears of War cannot sell for 9.99 or less. iOS owners, in general, will not pay significantly more. Gears of War would have to retail at 19.99 at least. Possibly even more like 29.99. People just aren't paying that. They'e not. Flat-out. The culture of the Appstore is what it is and cannot be changed.

What I'm saying is that Gears of War IS NOT coming to the Appstore. Never in actuality will this happen. It's a pipe dream, my friends. Pie in the sky. Mark my words.

Technically, it is possible. Economically, however, it's not. Economically, it is impossible.

[Bad Hanson]

Originally Posted by Teknikal

Judging by Black Pegasus a recent fps game I found impressive and the Epic Citadel demo I don't see why it couldn't be achieved technically with enough work and time.

I have some serious doubts over whether Microsoft would allow it though I wouldn't in their shoes so I think the chances are close to zero.

Exactly...The epic guy was using a figurative example- G.O.W. is a Microsoft exclusive which is why you can't play it on your PS3 and you won't be playing it on your iPad anytime soon. I find it a little disheartening that people are so keen to put epic on such a high pedestal. We already have plenty of great Dev's producing games for us without the money or backing of Epic. Personally I find their games are a tad cheesy, tragically over hyped products which tend to promise more than they deliver which is why while this iOS game will look nice but not be a gamechanger. I'm all for them wanting to widen their demographic but until Epic announce something truly special...such as a GameDev Story sequel in the unreal engine with cross-genre cross-platform playable user generated games and level's then I'm probably not going to be getting so excited t.b.h.

[Stirolak26]

The psp god of war is probably technically more impressive than the project sword or gears of war in two years now currently anyway.

[dumaz1000]

These comments made by the developers seem to all center around whether it can be done or not. Not a single comment was made, I don't believe, about whether they had crunched the proverbial numbers to see if this thing was actually feasible monetarily. Image if God of War for the PSP was a 9.99 game. I don't think any profit would be made. I'd don't think they could even recoup the up-front developmental costs if they were to sell that game for ten bucks. I'd think they'd lose their proverbial shorts selling God of War for 9.99 after all the money, all the overhead, that was invested into the project.

Gears of War would be a similar deal. It would cost Epic so much money just to make it that they could not justify even green-lighting this project to begin with if they knew in the end that they could only get away with selling it for 9.99.

[Stirolak26]

Originally Posted by dumaz1000

These comments made by the developers seem to all center around whether it can be done or not. Not a single comment was made, I don't believe, about whether they had crunched the proverbial numbers to see if this thing was actually feasible monetarily. Image if God of War for the PSP was a 9.99 game. I don't think any profit would be made. I'd don't think they could even recoup the up-front developmental costs if they were to sell that game for ten bucks. I'd think they'd lose their proverbial shorts selling God of War for 9.99 after all the money, all the overhead, that was invested into the project.

Gears of War would be a similar deal. It would cost Epic so much money just to make it that they could not justify even green-lighting this project to begin with if they knew in the end that they could only get away with selling it for 9.99.

All I was saying is their statement that it could be done in two years isn't impressive when god of war looks so good on inferior hardware today.