Age of Conan

    If a game comes out, lets say AoC. On the box it clearly states the system requirments. If I match the req exactly and the game runs like crap isn't that false advertising? At the very least you could get a refund, but if I bought a gun and on the box it said "If you meet the requirments you wont kill anyone" and you kill someone..somebody is getting sued.

  Dont know if thats the best analogy, but you get my drift. Vanguard was a classic example of false advertising. Can PC game companies be held accountable for this? Or do they get a free pass due to there being loose laws or no law governing this? Maybe some fine print in the EULA when you first install protects them?

Good luck with that. No, really.

The requirements on the box are the minimum and recommended requirements to be able to run the application, nothing more. At no point do they garauntee a certain framerate or quality of playability. Heck, most EULAs anymore flat-out say there's no garauntees on that sort of thing. You mileae WILL vary.

I agree but the Specs are not specific enough i mean it more or less say's the game will run it does not say the game will run Flawlessly tho but the Arguement i would take is when the Dev said if you can Run Oblivion then you can Run this game but i could Run Oblivion on my old Machine flawlessly but cant even get this game to run on that machine so yes they need to fix these stupid Misprinted specs.

Originally posted by XImpalerX

    If a game comes out, lets say AoC. On the box it clearly states the system requirments. If I match the req exactly and the game runs like crap isn't that false advertising? At the very least you could get a refund, but if I bought a gun and on the box it said "If you meet the requirments you wont kill anyone" and you kill someone..somebody is getting sued.

  Dont know if thats the best analogy, but you get my drift. Vanguard was a classic example of false advertising. Can PC game companies be held accountable for this? Or do they get a free pass due to there being loose laws or no law governing this? Maybe some fine print in the EULA when you first install protects them?

   

No you cannot sue, and how would you know how AoC runs out of the box anyways, since it's still 12 days before release. People really need to quit complaining about a beta, it's really getting dispressing look at this site, much less these forums. And you might want to re-read what false advertisement is.

For most Americans, its the American Way to sue..

Sue this, sue that...

Game isnt even out yet, dont assume its not as advertised.

Go visit a car factory, tell them your gonna sue cuz there is only 3 wheels on the vechicle at the time of your visit..

Originally posted by XImpalerX

    If a game comes out, lets say AoC. On the box it clearly states the system requirments. If I match the req exactly and the game runs like crap isn't that false advertising? At the very least you could get a refund, but if I bought a gun and on the box it said "If you meet the requirments you wont kill anyone" and you kill someone..somebody is getting sued.

  Dont know if thats the best analogy, but you get my drift. Vanguard was a classic example of false advertising. Can PC game companies be held accountable for this? Or do they get a free pass due to there being loose laws or no law governing this? Maybe some fine print in the EULA when you first install protects them?

   

No, you'd have no case.  They don't say it will be playable at the minimum, they simply state that it will run and that is all it does, run.  It is actually a pretty standard practice in the software industry.

Though, I agree, the reqs aren't specific enough, they should mention memory speeds, AMD/Intel speed reqs for SC and MC processors and whether you must have a PCIe video card (though that req will so be gone as no new boards are being made for the AGP slot execpt for some very poorly supported ATIs).

That was something that came out after the fact on Vanguard, I met the minimum requirements except for one unspoken one, it wouldn't run on an AGP bus video card, it simply couldn't handle the data flow.  That came out right around release...  It seems to hold true for this game as well, there is simply too much data being transfered to the card to run on an AGP bus card.

Originally posted by mackdawg19

 

Originally posted by XImpalerX

    If a game comes out, lets say AoC. On the box it clearly states the system requirments. If I match the req exactly and the game runs like crap isn't that false advertising? At the very least you could get a refund, but if I bought a gun and on the box it said "If you meet the requirments you wont kill anyone" and you kill someone..somebody is getting sued.

  Dont know if thats the best analogy, but you get my drift. Vanguard was a classic example of false advertising. Can PC game companies be held accountable for this? Or do they get a free pass due to there being loose laws or no law governing this? Maybe some fine print in the EULA when you first install protects them?

   

 

No you cannot sue, and how would you know how AoC runs out of the box anyways, since it's still 12 days before release. People really need to quit complaining about a beta, it's really getting dispressing look at this site, much less these forums. And you might want to re-read what false advertisement is.

2)False advertising is the use of deliberately false statements or deception in advertising, in order to gain a commercial advantage. As advertising has the potential to persuade people into commercial transactions that they might otherwise avoid, many governments around the world use regulations to control false, deceptive or misleading advertising.

Recommended system requirments are printed on a box. I dont know if i want to buy this game because i think my computer sux. When I pick the box up and I meet or exceed the reqs, I buy the game, get it home, install, and it is unplayable. According to that defintion the recommended system requirments were deceptive when in actuality I need something even better.

  All im saying is that PC game developers will intentionally lower the printed sys reqs so that a wider range of people will buy the game, when in actuality the reqs to run the game without having to be a Computer Scientist are much higher.

ie: college,