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The fact that I have to run 3rd party software to play Borderlands 2 in split screen with my friend, after spending nearly an hour to set up configs and batch files, is just insulting, and lazyness from developers, who are enabled buy the I-hate-splitscreen-so-there crowd.
Complete and utter nonsense.
If it were so, then there wouldn't be many cross-platform games.
The simple reason why devs don't go for split-screen is well-documented, of you care to check. It's partly because as stated already - that sharing a keyboard and one mouse would be ridiculous. Also, extra development costs for a small minority that want to use split-screen, traditionally.
However, that is changing. Controllers on PCs are a common thing now, so split screen does happen. Good thing too- there should be a level playing field.
Heck, the Steam description for Far Cry 3 actually said it had split-screen for a short time. Was reading Game Informers "co-op" issue a few months back and it pretty shamelessly included PC as a platform in the group of traditionally local co-op/split-screen games like Left 4 Dead and Borderlands/Borderlands 2. The PC ports just aren't advertised as the inferior releases... like I said, it's borderline false advertising sometimes.
There's a general misrepresentation when it comes to split-screen on PC games... there's no effort whatsoever to inform the user it's gone and in some cases, like the few I listed, it's actually flat out wrong. The only way to really know for sure is to check the forums for the obligatory "where the ♥♥♥♥ is the split-screen" topic before buying, which frankly isn't good enough for a feature that never should've been removed in the first place.
Even if you ignore the cases of blatant false advertising, which is never acceptable, I'm still not a huge fan of developers taking the time and effort to actually remove useful (to some) functionality from PC ports... and then not even think enough of the PC community to give a reason why... or even mention it.
And if your response to that is, "then don't buy it"... apparently someone somewhere has to. To inform the rest of us that split-screen didn't make the cut. For some reason.
And yes, my response is "then don't buy it". I mean it's understandable to be disappointed, but I wouldn't dwell on it; there's no shortage of good games out there to spend your time on instead. I just choose to reward and celebrate the devs that do keep such features in their games, like Croteam.
As for "someone has to", well first, there are people who do that for a living, and you can just read what they write. Alternately, you could ask the developer directly, which doesn't require buying anything. Granted not all developers will respond to individual questions, but many will, and even the ones that aren't so talkative only have to answer once for the information to be linked across the entire internet.
I agree about reading reviews and doing research before buying a game, however, you're kidding yourself if you think there's a good chance of a reviewer touching on missing split-screen functionality in the games PC port. Considering the PC generally doesn't get a ton of love in the gaming world outside PC-exclusive games (and even then), and split-screen is often a lower priority then it should be IMO. Hence, the constant misinformation and lack of information about it out there.
It's a crapshoot.
And for all the good games out there, there's a lack of really good split-screen shooters on the PC. It's pretty much Resident Evil 6 and Serious Sam on an island. Borderlands, Left 4 Dead and Resident Evil 5 would definitely beef up the roster. Far Cry 3 would help as well.
If developers can get by despite this, it seems to me that shows that the market in general doesn't actually care all that much.
And honestly, we very quickly exhaust discussion on what you can do about that. You no doubt already know your options. You can choose to not buy their games (because if what they're doing works, they have no reason to change) and of course tell them your reasons. You can make open public complaints like this thread. But you're not their employer; they have no obligation to make the games you or I or anyone else wants them to make. We can step up and make our own games if we care that much.
Which makes your point true, they don't care about split-screen. And the developers do get by. That doesn't make this a good situation though.
I suppose the topic was more for heated speculation on why split-screen is the red headed stepchild of coop gaming on the PC, especially nowadays where gamepads are common and fully supported in almost every big release, and why PC users are so incredibly okay with losing features from what many consider the most versatile platform.
I actually don't recall asking for advise on where to find answers to whether or not games have split-screen (infact I reference this in the OP)... though I do appreciate it.
I think a lot of people are in the same boat. You can say all you like that plenty of people use their PCs in their living rooms or whatever, but "plenty" is unquantified - it's a big world, there are plenty of pretty much any niche hobbyist. My completely unsupported guess would be that despite there being plenty of you, people with living room PCs are in fact a minority, so expecting the big publishers to cater to you is...well, optimistic, let's say.
That may change if, say, SteamOS takes off. We'll see.
And it's not so much people being indifferent towards it, that I can understand... but many people in this thread have actually been vehemently against the idea of including split-screen (which, just keep in mind, already existed on other platforms). It's obnoxious, and typically just some legitimately weird anti-console bias.