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Seriously, complaining about an integrated graphics card not running some new game is just idiotic though.  To be honest I'm amazed that Starcraft 2 will run on my integrated card, and run well at that.  At the same time, I fully do not expect it to, and anybody who expects games made in the past three years to run on integrated cards (assuming they are not indie games or games made to run on such hardware) is just outright delusional.  Games are made to run on certain hardware.  This is not a difficult concept to understand.  You want to play Skyrim or The Witcher 2?  Get a better computer.  What's worse is that these games, awesome as they look, don't even need super great hardware to run anymore, due to the lowest-common denominator of the industry building towards 360 and PS3 for cross-platform compatibility.  Despite this, people still bitch and moan that game X doesn't run on crappy computer Y.  It's entitlement and whiny and annoying.

I bought a new PC just so I could play better games. But the point is that Magicka is an indie game. It's not made by a huge developer. It's supposed to be able to run on a bunch of different hardware setups because the bigger the audience they can get the more money they make. I don't feel entitled to play modern games on my laptop, but I would think I'd be able to play most indie games I buy off of Steam. And if there's a large group of people going "Hey, we can't play your game", maybe they ought to try and fix it. Instead, they went "Sorry, we don't support you". Even my girlfriend's laptop, with has a significantly better NVidia card couldn't play it (and this laptop can handle even Skyrim at relatively decent graphics).

Yeah, I'm guilty of not reading the requirements. But I was basically able to run *anything else* during Steam's whole winter achievement thing. Anything else. And I bought Magicka thinking it looked really nice for an indie game, but couldn't run it at all. That's just ridiculous. And what Kaio said is true: it's not even a very good game. >_<

~DS

Yeah, it’s not made by a huge developer. Huge developers are the ones who have the resources to gather a wide variety of hardware for testing and software engineers to whittle it down to a very low spec for a wide audience, not the indies.

It doesn’t get a lot of attention, but plenty of indie games out there have trouble running on certain configurations they ought to run on just fine. And this one is suddenly asinine for saying it doesn’t run just fine if you are not tall enough to ride? Yeah, no.

See, I was always operating under the assumption that most indie games are supposed to run on a wide number of configurations. I've got probably 50+ indie games on Steam and the only one to give me trouble is Magicka. =/

~DS

Most indie games border on low end specs. Magicka (along with trine) are notable for being on mid high. But yes, logic dictates that if they are indie, they probably have their laptops and shit to test their games, not a vast array of machines at tehir disposal (which would increase dev costs!).




Fun fact, Atom Zombie Smasher totally refuses to run on my Mobile Radeon 5870. And so does RUSE.