Killer NIC Interview

GD: Why ping? Why did you feel this was an important enough thing to make a company and a product to address?

Bigfoot: Bigfoot Networks is dedicated to fighting Lag in online games, which we define as anything bad that happens in a game that is out of the gamer’s control. This could be their screen freezing, players jumping around on the screen, losing your connection to the game server, slow responses from the server, etc… Ping improvements can help all of these things, but is not the only feature of Killer.

This card seems like an even bigger gimmick than the AGEIA add-in Physics card. Even after reading the interview, I have to scratch my head. Whether or not gamers will actually ‘buy’ this, is yet to be seen. Without a doubt, this is going to prove a hard sell.