No PC Ghost Recon: Future Soldier [Nov 24, 2011, 2:09 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Though plans for a PC edition of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was previously confirmed by Ubisoft, PC Gamer has word that the next installment in the Ghost Recon series is for consoles only, and that PC gamers will get Ghost Recon Online instead, which is apparently Ubisoft's new approach to PC piracy following their almost universally despised always-on DRM. Here's word from Ghost Recon Online producer Sébastien Arnoult:
We are giving away most of the content for free because there’s no barrier to entry. To the users that are traditionally playing the game by getting it through Pirate Bay, we said, ‘Okay, go ahead guys. This is what you’re asking for. We’ve listened to you – we’re giving you this experience. It’s easy to download, there’s no DRM that will pollute your experience.’
We’re adapting the offer to the PC market. I don’t like to compare PC and Xbox boxed products because they have a model on that platform that is clearly meant to be €60’s worth of super-Hollywood content. On PC, we’re adapting our model to the demand.
“When we started Ghost Recon Online we were thinking about Ghost Recon: Future Solider; having something ported in the classical way without any deep development, because we know that 95% of our consumers will pirate the game. So we said okay, we have to change our mind.
We have to adapt, we have to embrace this instead of pushing it away. That’s the main reflection behind Ghost Recon Online and the choice we’ve made to go in this direction.
Ventura wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 05:09:
In this day and age, where games are like 10gig a pop, the "I can't afford it" pirates do amuse me. Can't afford to buy the games, but high-speed internet with no bandwidth caps, yeah they've got the money for that.
Erm no. Actually I partly agree with the first part of your post, there is no reason to buy a game youve already pirated unless it adds some functuality that is missing in the pirated version. Unless you want to reward the developer. I was wondering what the top sentence means, specifically the 10gig a pop part?? Flat rate internet is dirt cheap, and why would you condescendingly sneer on someone who downloads games and has no money??
I dont pirate games, but I used to buy them on discs from pirates when I was a kid (thats right, before piratebay) and used to play a shitload of them because I had time to waste and very little money. I guess you would incarcarate that 14 year old with serial rapists and murderers wouldnt you?
These days I buy all of my games, since there are so few really good ones to choose from that are worth buying and I want to reward the developers who go out of their way to develop a good game in this day and age of the quick "gaming" buck, I find that very easy and quite cheap.
Most of the games I do buy usually have some sort of mulitplayer component which is usually busted or non-existant in the pirated version. An exception to that is Skyrim. And that game sold 7 million copies so far. Not bad for a "single-player" game.
I guess what Im saying is that Im sick of asshole developers laying all the blame on PC pirates (as if console pirates were non existant) and even more sick of ignorant assholes equating piracy with theft.
I have a nifty blue line!
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