Let's see.... I guess Vista will be at least $100 for the upgrade from XP-Home. The there's FPSC X10, I guess $35 for an upgrade. Then there's a new GFX Card that supports DX10, at least $200. But then I need a new system to put the gfx card in and to run Vista properly, since it's not supporting hardware over 3 years old. so that's another $400.
Let's add it up, $100+$200+$400+$35=$735. Just tell me how I can justify $700 for just getting FPSC X10? I don't think so.
Some of us may get some money back from selling games, but looking at FPSC X10 we may see some "pro's" and "pro-studios" picking it up also, making it hard for the little guy to earn it's place.
Next thing is, looking at the time it has taken to get FPSC 1.x really good and we're still not even close to having a stable working version, by the time FPSC X10 is truly producing good stable games every other game creation system has most likely caught up, making it even harder to sell games.
I know the tag like is that we'll be the first to create games for Vista, but don't you think others engines and game designers are relaxing and doing nothing? If FPSC can look as good as other XP games we see now, how will those XP games look on Vista? Even better.
Besides, FPSC is lacking all of the features a good FPSC game should have and when it comes to features FPSC is quite basic. Seeing the trouble TGC has with even getting a good version of V1.x out, I have my doubts X10 will suddenly burst with far beyond basic, features we do need to be competitive with others producing for Vista.
So, no, I'm not going to rush out and buy Vista and get FPSC X10. Before I do invest anymore money into FPSC I need to see a stable working version. What good is an engine that can't produce the games you want to create?
I'm glad Lee and the others at TGC are working hard to improve FPSC and get it stable and good, that's a great effort! But before I do put anymore money into FPSC, I first need to be convinced that FPSC can be stable. We're on 1.04RC 9 now, that's roughly 15 updates or so and none of them has been stable or workable at all. Everyone new is causing new problems previous ones didn't have.
Before adding anymore features and gimmicks (which are cool) to FPSC, I do think a stable working version should be produced first. That will help me convince that FPSC will be worth a good investment. I'm not convinced at all, my doubts are growing with each RC. Don't get me wrong, FPSC works great for my projects, but they're not serious games at all. Like most around here, I don't even dare to create what I really want to, I know I'll get stuck soon enough, since FPSC can't handle. That's not because I want to create something so advanced, that's because FPSC is very unpredictable and unstable and with each RC it seems to get worse.
Having said all of this, I'm sure we will see a good working stable version of FPSC in the end, but I'm afraid my current PC can't handle that one. That means my target audience's PC can't handle it either. I don't want to create games for an elect few, I want to create games for everyone and I do hope that when FPSC is finally stable that will be the case, but I'm afraid it won't be so.
Well that's my reasoning for not even considering buying Vista just for FPSC X10. I'm not considering buying Vista, I'm sure XP will serve me well for a couple of more years and Vista will run XP stuff just as good. FPSC X10 has not changed my mind at all about not getting Vista.
EDIT: RickV just posted while I was typing.....
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Just got my Intel Quad 4 with Vista and an 8800 installed - all in the name of testing X10 you know! And I even managed to get Lee to build it for me. He managed to buy a similar yet better system!"
That's what I'm talking about. He's talking about $1000 for the CPU and GFX card alone and here I come with my $735 estimate
Com'on TGC you really have to do something good about FPSC 1 to convince about investing that kind of money. For that kind of money I can buy a lot of toher cool toys...... that are solid.
