if you are presenting a game you want high quality screenshots you don't want artifacts all over the place, and png rarely get over what can be downloaded with edge/gprs. Plus ps just like most online games isn't playable with those connections decently. and i know what i say i had shitty connections barely able to handle 3kb/s-12kb/s with an high packet loss too sometimes (bless you vodafone the worse operator in italy) and ps was entirely unplayable: thing moving at random, text coming up 10 seconds after.... If you really have such slow connections at least 1/2 of today's internet is off limit to you. Just opening google takes 31kb minus pictures (i've saved the raw http transaction)... a png might go from 100kb to 1mb usually for 720p screens which are way bigger than what's presented here. Also I'd like to remind that decent slow connection providers have functionalities to downgrade image quality which can alleviate the situation.
(*) may i remind that the idea was setting a standard for the future and not one for the present? and my audio card can record up to 96khz/24bit well (hd audio is quite around too i'd say anyway and that's rated 24bit/96khz too)
(*) may I also remind about the sad state of the planeshift textures? most, if not all, are <= 256x256 and higher resolutions versions were never done. making it worse with jpeg is just what we need to scare people away more.
(*) may I also remind that press and magazines maybe want a bit more than jpeg webpage like quality for print? (ref: first post from talad)
