Poll: What is Your Gaming Resolution?

[Ion.67]

Every other new shooter today has widescreen, and it hasn't ever been complained about on those games. They go off the same principal, shoot to kill. Making only a 4:3 game is stupid.

[Xris]

The steam survey is conducted every few months, and has a sample pool of 1,385,624 gamers.

of which how many are svm players? like 30?

Doesn't matter. The point of the survey is to see what hardware most gamers are employing these days so that you can design games that are compatible with the majority of hardware, thus maximizing profit.

Of the pool (people that have an acct with steam) how many ppl actualy do the servey.... (1,000; 10,000; 100,000) ?? im guessing under 100,000.  lets not forget the steam population doesn't represent every gamer.  For example I don't have a steam acct, I didn't participate in the poll and I have 16:10.  Another example, what about all the blizzard ppl, StarCraft; Warcraft 1,2,3; WoW; etc.  I wonder what resolution they play at...

[Spekkio]

Dude, stop trying to nitpick to make yourself look right. At this point you're just being a stubborn retard. The number I quoted is the amount of people who did the survey. See, the phrase "sample pool" is scientific speak for people who participate in an experiment or take a survey.

If you really had any brains instead of an inclination to be an annoying asshole, you'd have visited the website yourself to look at how the survey was conducted instead of making baseless accusations.

There is no such thing as a survey that includes every single person of a group, so pointing out a few individuals who might not have taken it does not invalidate the results. When scientists do surveys, they employ random sampling of a relatively small sample size (~1,000 individuals). If the sampling is truly random, then the results can be extrapolated to the larger population pool with good accuracy. The lack of random sampling (ie, steam users) can be made up for by increasing sample size (ie, over 1 million people taking the survey). Blizzard, WoW, and whatever other gamers might also have steam on their computer, especially because steam now supports 3rd party games. Unless something changes, I plan on buying all future games through steam. It's extremely convenient to have all my games available to me for download, already patched, rather than keeping track of CDs/DVDs with their CD keys.

Is the survey perfect? No, but it's the most comprehensive hardware survey on the 'net, and CS 1.6 has more professional gamers than any other game in the world.

Every other new shooter today has widescreen, and it hasn't ever been complained about on those games. They go off the same principal, shoot to kill. Making only a 4:3 game is stupid.

Other shooter games aren't built around the principle of avoiding detection. Multiplayer FPS games are so fast-paced that the difference between a 4:3 and 16:10 viewing area is marginal.

[Xris]

If you really had any brains instead of an inclination to be an annoying asshole, you'd have visited the website yourself to look at how the survey was conducted instead of making baseless accusations.

You could have posted a link instead of just posting info that may or may not be true ...

[Vega]

SURVEY SAYS: You got owned.

[0ctin]

1680x1050 16:10

[Spekkio]

If you really had any brains instead of an inclination to be an annoying asshole, you'd have visited the website yourself to look at how the survey was conducted instead of making baseless accusations.

You could have posted a link instead of just posting info that may or may not be true ...

Again, retarded nitpicking. I said the steam survey, so I named my source. It's up to you to look the source up if you have any questions about it.



And because you've just been owned,

[Gawain]

so your point is that i should get no widescreen support because people don't buy the good stuff? who cares about some css kid's configuration? it's important to support common configurations, but the survey has absolutely no point as this decision is all about gameplay balance. and for that part, there was already the suggestion to switch the merc hud to the sides for widescreen players so that their fov comes closer to that of other players. so tell me, what exactly do you consider imbalanced with this idea??

[BurningDeath]

it's important to support common configurations,

And the most common configurations are 1024x768 and 1248x1024. Go figure out.

[Gawain]

dammit u  are stupid. supporting A doesn't mean one shouldn't support B, too.

edit: changed "should" to "shouldn't"

[Xris]

If you really had any brains instead of an inclination to be an annoying asshole, you'd have visited the website yourself to look at how the survey was conducted instead of making baseless accusations.

You could have posted a link instead of just posting info that may or may not be true ...

Again, retarded nitpicking. I said the steam survey, so I named my source. It's up to you to look the source up if you have any questions about it.

Meh w/e if you don't like PS, you can go back to valve and play CS with all the other CS retards.

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[Vega]

Hahaha I really hope you're being sarcastic.  Is that your best defense?  When you're logically proven wrong in something completely unrelated to PS, you say; "If you don't like PS, you can go away?"  I have to assume because of the comics you're being sarcastic, but the joke is blanketed with a stubborn tone.

[Spekkio]

so your point is that i should get no widescreen support because people don't buy the good stuff? who cares about some css kid's configuration? it's important to support common configurations, but the survey has absolutely no point as this decision is all about gameplay balance. and for that part, there was already the suggestion to switch the merc hud to the sides for widescreen players so that their fov comes closer to that of other players. so tell me, what exactly do you consider imbalanced with this idea??

Follow me very carefully, since I know the average intelligence on this site is quite low (excluding the devs)...

IF the viewing angle has relatively insignificant balance implications, then all possible platforms should be supported. However, IF the viewing angle is a significant balance issue, then the viewing angle that supports the majority of gamers on the whole should be employed so as to attract the widest possible audience. I used the steam survey because it is the most comprehensive gamer hardware survey in the 'net, and it is a much better gauge of hardware than the 20 people voting in the PS forum poll. Moreover, Steam now supports all 3rd party games for purchase, not just CS:S. I bought CoH: OF through Steam, and I will buy all my future PC games through Steam in the near future. You can also import the shortcuts from your retail purchased games into Steam so that you have one easy-to-use interface. The only downside, though, is that games like SCCT that require the DVD still require the DVD after you import the shortcut. Regardless, if you want to talk about the "future" of PC gaming, Steam is it.

If you have something better to refute this survey, then go ahead and post it. Until then, stfu and stop whining.

Pissing off 25% of gamers with black bars is better than pissing of 75% of gamers with black bars.

Meh w/e if you don't like PS, you can go back to valve and play CS with all the other CS retards

LoL? Who said anything about liking or disliking PS? Last I checked, the game isn't out yet. Keep talking, you might earn yourself another owned picture.

[Westfall]

I is smarts

[Gawain]

spekkio, i'm not stupid. if you could compensate the fov with other factors, we should go for the most common aspect ratio. however, this is not the fact. it's rather that we have to find the most balanced one. i also think that the widescreen guys should at least be allowed to enjoy their more convenient fov while playing the spy side as it's not that much of a balance factor there. for the merc side, we could also go for a compromise and give the 5:4 guys little bars on the up and downside, and the 16:10 guys some little bars on the left and right side.