alosso:Are they so far sub-standard? OTOH, the minimum requirements given by WGT are so outdated that every contemporary PC should meet them(?)
Obviously it depends on what you do for a living. A high end graphics designer probably has a decent Apple product that will suffice. Most of the designers and developers I know much prefer Apple (or Linux) to Windows. Their machines are typically top of the line, since graphic design and software development are processor intensive.
But for the folks in accounting and marketing rocking spreadsheets and presentations all day, no that's not gonna get the job done. You've got a processor that's built for math, not graphics. Your company got a great deal on those machines, because they are built cheaply and easily replaced.
You could kinda say that those PC's just don't have the heart, regardless of their specs. If graphics can't render quickly enough then, as James Hetfield would say, "Nothing Else Matters."
alosso: Social aspects in fori and CS are a separate yet interesting subject - how far would a thread on it come before being closed on flame war? LOL
I think we're good here, and it could probably go pretty far. I'm just presenting an opinion based on at-length observation. I called out no one in particular. My attitude is friendly and my posts should be taken in that vein. I was a bit miffed in the beginning due to the namecalling, but I let that go pretty quickly. I think if everyone conducted themselves as such the thread would go on for as long in which insight can be gleaned.
alosso: Rumour has it that Flash is dead alife, do you think it might be postponed long enough for this game? And what about the post-Flash game?
Well, I know that the scripting language that they use is adaptable to HTML5 but I do not know in what capacity. It could be 0%, 50% or 100% portable. It's hard when you can't see inside the box.
If I had to speculate, Flash will die a long, painfully slow psuedo-death, kinda like Windows XP. There's still so much flash content out there now I just can't see it going away for good, at least not in the next few years. You'll probably end up having to install a stand-alone plugin instead of a browser add-on once all browsers eventually team up on the HTML5 bandwagon to block flash entirely on all devices. Mobile devices, tablets, phablets and 2-in-1's are all great, but most still pale in comparison to a well-built desktop PC. But I'm old-school. =)
I believe as long as there are still good old-fashioned desktop devices that flash will continue to stick around as well, if nothing more than a legacy platform, forever hawking its useless Ask Toolbar.
I really hope no one installed that.