I am not even going to quote you.
ONE: Running a private server for a game is not hard at all. There are things you can download to edit the source code. I have a friend who explained the entire process to me while he made one for Lineage II, a game that is a lot more complex that an RTS.
TWO: Your analogy made no sense because in a lot of aspects Mac is better than Windows. Processing power, design, ease-of-use, familiarity, and their way of making the complex things easy, to name a few. Also, I would rather have an egg sandwich than a pot roast.
THREE: You MADE UP that percentage. Here is a number that I DID NOT make up: 407,000,000. That is more than four million sites pinged on Google after I searched 'computer art'. A logical estimate shows that about half of these are forums devoted to the subject and production of, and the other half are galleries/ other things related. An average amount of people on a forum is about one hundred, though I have seen forums with as little as five and as many as ten thousand. You do the math: That's a lot of people who partake in graphic art. The cutting edge technology of graphic art is 3d game design. It is a popular thing, meaning a good number of those people who design games.
Also, if that 99.99% WAS true, which it's not, that is of everyone. Not of people interested in computer purchase.
because I dislike order, I will start with 2. then I will do 1, then 3.
2) My analogy was in response to your saying a mac was better than nothing. ("Two: Mac does NOT suck. It is a very powerful machine and it is much,
MUCH better than nothing at all.") I was trying to explain that just because something is better than nothing at all doesnt mean its the best. also I would like to emphasize that my original words were WEEK-OLD egg salad sandwich. and if you were a hungry hobo a normal sized pot roast would provide much more nourishment than a normal sized sandwich, so it doesnt matter what YOU would personally prefer.
My analogy was not in any way supposed to reflect the strengths and/or weaknesses of either system
1) private server? what? when did I say anything about a private server. (and running a private server is normally expensive if not hard.) he has a MOD. Him and his programmers and modelers and scripters and such ripped apart the source code and rewrote it from scratch from what I understand of the process. plus, his mod is one of the most successful and most downloaded mods of all time. I beleive he told me that if he had decided to charge for the game he would have made a large sum of money by this point. (I forget the exact number but it was calculated taking into account that there would have been less downloads)
3) you searched wrong. you should have searched for "computer art" (with the quotation marks). this finds you only pages with the words "computer" and "art" one after the other. if I search "Zach Lavone" (my real name (
without the quotation marks)) I get 15,000 results. I am not on 15000 web pages (yet
). if I search with quotations I get 7 results. that is much more accurate.
(other searches: Zachary Lavone: 14,000 "Zachary LaVone": 42 results)
"computer art" (with quotations) gets 1,500,000 results, not 400,000,000.
"Also, if that 99.99% WAS true, which it's not, that is of everyone. Not of people interested in computer purchase. " the last sentence is the only thing in your post that makes sense if we were talking worldwide, 99.99% would be an understatement, but when I made the comment I was thinking of the US, not the world. there are 300,000,000 people in the US. now I dont know the number of game designers in the US, but it is probably not far off from 30,000, which is .0001% of 300,000,000.
where your statement rings true is that not all of the people in the US are looking to buy a computer.
anyway, it is a simple fact that there are more people who have windows than who have a mac. dont try to deny it, its true. so if we are going to look at sales as evidence of which is better, mac loses. simply put; more people who are looking to buy a computer buy windows and not mac.
and even if mac was equal in all physical aspects. (ease of use, processing power, price, etc etc.) it is also a fact that there are more programs and applications that are windows exclusive so you would logically buy windows simply for this reason (assuming they were equal in every other field)
an example would be, if all of your friends ran windows and they all had a program called yfire (
)
yfire might not be mac compatible and even if you found a mac version of yfire (zfire maybe?
) you still couldnt talk to your friends.
just because you can find a program that does the same thing for mac doesnt mean that you can ignore the fact that macs are not very compatible with windows.
if you worked on a presentation or report at home (on your mac) and you wanted to bring it to school or work, you would have to be sure it would be compatible with the computers at school or work. I cant tell u how many times I have seen someone work on some presentation at home on a mac and it didnt work when they came to school. in fact, more often than not there
IS an issue with compatibility.
i couldnt contact my uber crazy awesome head-of-mod friend yet, but when i do I will tell u what he has to say on this subject