Ghostbusters - No PC Multiplayer

As a kid born in 80's, Ghostbusters to me is almost it's own religion. I owned both Ghostbusters 1 and 2 on VCR (that's like a DVD to those of you born in the past 20 years), watched all the cartoons and even owned a few action figures. I specifically remember an Egon toy with tentacles coming out of his helmet. I remember waiting for weeks for it, eventually finding it at Argos.

So when news reached my ear holes of new ghostbusters media coming out in my twenties, it was wonderful. I am the exact market for new ghostbusters stuff. And when I heard that the entire cast would be providing voices, well words can't explain.

So anyway, I've been keeping half an eye on the Ghostbusters game for a while, hoping that it might be OK and not just a cash crop. It actually looks pretty good. Then today I read this article: BigDownload.com. This just makes me so angry. If you read between the lines, it looks like it says "We are concentrating on the console versions for our game and if you intend to buy it on PC, you dont get half of the game. Sorry!". If you read it closer, it looks like this; "If you play on the PC, this game was an afterthought, don't bother getting it". OK, so maybe I'm being a little harsh but it makes me mad. Partially understandably, it must be a money thing. They think that they'll have more sales on the consoles and dont want to invest the time and effort to implement the multiplayer on PC. I really think that it should be easier to implement on the PC but what do I know? It would've even been acceptable to hold back the PC release until this part of the game was in it. Not a perfect solution by any stretch of the imagination.

Part of me wonders what we'll be missing out on. I've seen trailers of the multiplayer in action and it looks like co-op. That could be promising, sort of like a Left 4 Dead game but with ghosts and proton packs.

I'm probably not going to get it. If the developers (Terminal Reality) aren't interested in making the PC game all it can be, then I have no interest putting my money in their hands. Besides, there are just too many awesome games out there that I still havent played and would rather invest my hard earned cash in.