Ubisoft asks PC gamers to show interest about The Division, petition almost hits its initial goal | DSOGaming

It seems that Ubisoft wants to promote a possible PC version of The Division in a really clever way. During this year’s E3, the French company announced that this great looking game would be coming on XBOne and PS4. Even though it did not rule out other platforms for a future release, the company stated that it was currently focused on the console versions.

However, during Machinima’s interview the developers of The Division said that a PC version will be made if there is a demand for it. The devs said that PC gamers should go ahead and ‘sign petitions, get on the forums and post their requests‘.

There is already a petition for The Division PC that has almost hit its initial goal of 7500 signs. We don’t know the amount of signs that are needed for this petition to be successful, but we are pretty sure that a petition that has been signed up by 10K PC gamers is a pretty good number.

Those interested can sign up the petition here.

Truth be told, though, we are a bit puzzled by Ubisoft’s strategy. The French company was satisfied with Far Cry 3’s sales on the PC, and it claimed – in the past – that the PC is its lead development platform. Therefore, it’s a bit odd that this MMO game – and since its an MMO, it almost felt a given that it was suited for the PC – is not officially coming to the PC.

Did Ubisoft suddenly change its strategy? Is PC not anymore the company’s lead development platform? Or is Ubisoft trying to promote the PC version of The Division via a cheaper way, while at the same time present ‘fake excuses’ for a possible delay?

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FaizanAliNaqvi

LOL at that PhysX on PS4. You completely forgot that since PS4’s GPU doesn’t support the CUDA GPGPU API, it will no way in hell run PhysX on the GPU.

Just think for a minute, PS360 also support PhysX, but how many games actually feature it? None. No developer in their right mind would try to give off a game that runs PhysX on the CPU.
- Origami
  
  No games use Physx on “PS360”? I guess if “none” now means “well over 100”.
  
  Moreover, not only do all of those PS3/X360 games run Physx on the CPU…but Nvidia itself supports Physx as a multi-threaded application on PC CPUs.
  
  It would appear that nearly the whole industry – including devs like Bioware, Frozenbyte, and Rocksteady – are not, “in their right mind”.
  
  Moving on…
  Nvidia has been looking at Physx on OpenCL for at least 4 years. It’s not even a question of ‘is it possible?’ It’s a question of ‘does Nvidia want the money?’
  
  With all the PC parts in Xbox One and Playstation 4…Somebody is going to make a tidy sum selling physics simulation on GPU for console games. Nvidia can cede that market to its competitors, or suck it up and cash in by supporting AMD hardware (even if only the X1/PS4 GPUs). It’s just that simple.
  - FaizanAliNaqvi
    
    >Implying I’m not aware of that.
    >Implying you’re going to win the argument because of better arguing and not because of being right.
    
    Seriously though, come up with a better response.
    - Origami
      
      Hahaha, are you addressing me here?
      If so, then the only one who needs a better response is you.
      
      Perhaps you can start by addressing the made up, non-factual, nonsense you’ve already been called out on…such as no developer in their right mind running Physx on CPU when top developers actually do just that all the time. Or no PS3/360 games using Physx when in fact it’s quite common.
      
      I don’t need to imply that you weren’t aware of those facts until I informed you, because you demonstrated as much by making the false claims in the first place.
      - FaizanAliNaqvi
        
        Now listen, and this might come in handy during the rest of your life (I surmise your an 11 year old kid) PhysX is a CPU whore. It’s not optimized well for CPUs, probably to lure people in buying Nvidia cards. If you think otherwise, then I feel sorry for you. Otherwise, you can show the specific tech PhysX features in any of the console games. Why don’t the Batman games use PhysX on consoles? Because f’. It’s common sense.
tortugaChan

Ubisoft always out to scrape nickels out of anything. smart business I guess.

However, during Machinima’s interview the developers of The Division said that a PC version will be made if there is a demand for it. The devs said that PC gamers should go ahead and ‘sign petitions, get on the forums and post their requests‘.

There is already a petition for The Division PC that has almost hit its initial goal of 7500 signs. We don’t know the amount of signs that are needed for this petition to be successful, but we are pretty sure that a petition that has been signed up by 10K PC gamers is a pretty good number.

Those interested can sign up the petition here.

Did Ubisoft suddenly change its strategy? Is PC not anymore the company’s lead development platform? Or is Ubisoft trying to promote the PC version of The Division via a cheaper way, while at the same time present ‘fake excuses’ for a possible delay?

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