Battlefield 4 and EA to win the retail PC FPS war as Call of Duty Ghosts PC gamers are forced to play hacked code by Actiblunder's artificial 6GB Ghost RAM lock out ...

Remember, remember the 5th of November ... 6 GB Ram lock outs, no reason and Activision have lost the plot ...

They just handed EA many, many, many, many more Battlefield 4 players ...

First it is complete and utter nonsense to physically lock out any PC gamer , even if your game requires 32 gig of RAM, you still let people with 2 gig run software at lower specs....even if it is a slide show ..you let them run it ..  A PC is not a console ...( feel me Gabe?)

Unless you want to force sell the game with next gen consoles ..which is great .. but they are going to run the game at a paltry 1080p... even with more RAM ..or 720p 

I have to say Activision you guys suck A**e  .. Ghosts is already being played more in hacked code than in retail... and it is going to grow... 

COD is not a graphically intensive series, it has always run on every machine ..because consoles are always behind, by the time we get PC ( where COD began as a Medal of Honor wannabee) versions they easily run 25 to 30 FPS or more on even Intel IGPUS.... 

People may upgrade for new Cryengine, Unreal or Frostbite update ...but COD .. give us break ..it's a console to PC port ..not a lovingly crafted PC AAA game ... 

What is ridiculous, is we all know the game cannot require 6GB of non dedicated PC RAM , PC gaming relies on your GPU RAM ...the max of which is around 4GB .. most PC games are optimised to use GPUS with 2GB and then take hold of slower system RAM ... just like most of our video editing does these days , system RAM of this size is not even required by the most intensive professional graphics editing software .. or operating systems juggling 20 different full apps ... what the hell is COD doing ..raytracing in real time ?

It is not as if 6 GB is a standard configuration .. most people are still on 2, 4, 8 or 12 ..that memory arranged to work in quad channel, or dual channel configs .. 

And as I type people are already noting the game uses 2GB of RAM ... which is more than you will get on PS3 or Xbox 360 versions .. and likely the Xbox ONE 720p or PS4 1080p versions.. 


What is laughingly ludicrous is the fact that I have been playing Battlefield 4 , without breaking a sweat at 5120 by 1600 with 4GB of RAM on 5 year old hardware .. and I am sure could with Ghosts too ... without the startup lockout...

The PC is THE fastest growing platform for gaming, for retail gaming ... the median RAM at this point across tablets, PCS and Rigs will fall short of 6 GBs ... sure we can upgrade .. but lock outs are not on .. 

No one is going to upgrade their PC just to play COD ... that generation of gamers is going to go for the console versions .. 

But that is the point Actiblizzard need to recoup costs by making console sales as mandatory as possible ( the PC upgrade can cost more than Xbox or PS3 version of the game and console ) they hope to make money one last time with COD  exploiting old gen and next gen consoles ... and carry on making that money over the course of next year .. 

There is a console eclipse of sorts of going on, right now COD can sell on Xbox 360, Xbox ONE, PS4, PS3  with all these consoles orbits crossing in one small retail season..

none of which have the power to run COD or Battlefield 4 like my 5 year old RIG .. or yours ... (without the lockout) 

But by introducing this lock out .. which people have already worked around they have insured more  Call of Duty Ghosts will be THE most pirated COD game in history ...

It is time for some heads to Oscar Mike at Actiblizzard ... Gaming  and gaming media can always use less suits .. 

Myself I think they will release an official RAM requirement unlock ... once the Christmas sales period is over .. 

If you queued for this one I feel for you .. 

And who knows if such an Activision PC Care Package will be released ...

If you want to play Ghosts and have less than 6GB RAM Google is your friend ... even if Infinity Ward and Activision its seems  are not... 

All that hype and build up ... are they really that desperate to force PC gamers onto consoles ... ?  Something must be very wrong financially at Activision for them to act this way..

I am off to test some workarounds and take a cool hard clinical look at what is so .. very .. about this console to PC port that it is the first AAA game in recent history that locks out gamers... 

Maybe it's the fur rendering on Fido that done it... 

At the end of the day it isn't about how many of us work around or actually upgrade to run this game, (I am actually upgrading to edit video these days not game), what it is people , setting aside the fact of the  completely condescending manner in which Activision have shut out millions of PC gamers whose laptops, tablets, Macs and Rigs do not have 6GB of RAM. What it is people ... is that this whole thing was totally UNNECESSARY as the game runs in 2GB ... 

You would think a 1 Billion dollar franchise would have someone,somewhere with the balls to say that this is totally insulting towards the people who pay for your egos .. the public .. 

The taller they are ... the harder they fall ...come March next year ...another Titan will fall... there are bad vibes surrounding anything connected to or rooted in Infinity Ward... 

The sad thing is once millions pirate the game in anger, they are not going to go and buy nice new shiny Xbox ONE or PS4 to then pay £60 for the same game and another £60 for the season pass ... 

Over to you Infinity Ward ... show us some respect ..   if you got the b***s to .. walk up to one of your suits and tell them this is not on... 

Video of the game running with 4GB to follow .. and I cannot wait to meet some Infinity Ward and Activision people to discuss this further... 

Oh how EA and DICE must be deservedly laughing ... 






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