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This is a tough one for AMD, because while the number of gamers directly affected is low (~1500 daily players on Steam), it hurts the brand badly - people will
by barrkel 9y ago
This is a tough one for AMD, because while the number of gamers directly affected is low (~1500 daily players on Steam), it hurts the brand badly - people will think other games might lose support also. That kind of FUD is gold for a competitor.
- kitsune_ 9y agoHow is this a tough one? What I mean by that is that any marketing & comms person worth their salt would have prevented this employee from ever making this statement in the first place.
- slivym 9y agoThe statement is bad but the underlying choice not to fix it probably won't change. If they do fix this it's likely because of the PR backlash rather than because fixing compatibility with a very old API is important.
- drucik 9y agoTbf fixing compatibility with a very old API might become important _because_ of PR backlash.
- LoSboccacc 9y agothere's a good correlation between age, having disposable income and a preference for older games. AMD is playing with the fire here.
- ForRealsies 9y agolmao You guys are a riot.
- dang 9y agoWould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- megaman22 9y agoAnd these aren't even obscure, fly-by-night titles. Command an Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 were AAA titles, no matter how tarnished and moribund the franchise is today. They aren't particularly old titles, either... maybe this is just me, but most of my gaming time is on DX9 games older and more obscure than that. I'm not in the market for a new GPU now, but this wouldn't encourage me to switch from Nvidia.