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Re: Ubisoft: PC Piracy Rate 93-95%

Aug 22, 2012, 11:26

Arithon

CJ_Parker wrote on Aug 22, 2012, 10:55: Here we go again with the typical knee-jerk reaction of y'allz stealing faggots who feel like they got caught red-handed when numbers like this are presented. Yes, my dear friends. The realization that YOU are the problem may be a tough one but that's how it is. Stop stealing and maybe we'll see a trend to better PC games one day. Such a display of I-bought-the-propaganda anal ventriloquism beggars belief! The numbers are (as always) a made up figure with zero basis in any kind of fact. I can surmise with a fair degree of certainty that UbiSoft’s sales department simply added the number of seeders and leechers on every torrent site they could find and multiplied that figure by a random factor, then counted the number as “stolen copies”. Not even an accurate representation of true downloads. Let a alone a true figure of who might have bought a game they couldn’t download for free. If I offer you a no-strings-attached free Ferrari F40 I made myself, more than a few people would take one. That doesn’t mean if I withdrew the offer, that these people would then rush out and buy a $600,000 car. That’s at best, a laughable premise. If his argument bore any validity, then I could argue using the same flawed logic that a million times the customers were lost to DRM than ever were to piracy. Having been stung by Ubi’s draconian DRM on Ass Creed 2, being unable to play single player BECAUSE THEIR WEBSITE was down, I will never buy another game they publish. Nor, for the same reason, would I pirate the buggy crap they churn out! If their sales have actually dropped 90%+ (a likely tale) then they should look closer to home for the cause. Free2Play is pimping PC’s as advertising space and with each new title the revenue stream gets thinner. It’s a venture that’s born to fail. The best selling PC games in recent years had little or no DRM, LAN support and single-player. If you want to sell 10-11 million copies of a title on the PC platform, then wake up and smell the coffee.

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