Bulletstorm Sequel Cancelled; PC Piracy Mentioned [Apr 10, 2012, 08:26 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
In spite of EA saying the original "under-performed," a sequel to Bulletstorm was in the works at People Can Fly before being cancelled by parent company Epic Games reports GameSpot, who hear from Epic president Mike Capps on the topic. Mike indicates they have put the Polish developer on a different project they will "be announcing pretty soon," though there is no clue if this is the recently revealed PC game Epic is planning. "We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he said. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon." He goes on to praise Bulletstorm and says he'd love to go back to the property, "but right now we don't have anything to talk about." Just to stir the pot a little, the story concludes with Capps' comment that sales of the PC version may have been harmed by piracy: "We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."
Re: Bulletstorm Sequel Cancelled; PC Piracy Mentioned
Apr 11, 2012, 04:08
Apr 11, 2012, 04:08
Jerykk wrote on Apr 11, 2012, 01:06:
To assume that piracy is the reason why studios and games fail is just silly. You'd have to ignore all the more obvious and logical factors to believe that. That said, the fundamental problem with debates about piracy is that there are no irrefutable statistics to draw upon. You can't prove or disprove the exact impact of piracy on sales. Piracy also evokes a strong ethical response and a person's moral fiber tends to be deeply ingrained. If someone believes piracy is inherently right or wrong, no amount of reasoning, logic or evidence will sway them. That's why we continue to have these exact same debates over and over and over again.
Indeed, and the rate of piracy I see in the people around me gives me cause to believe it has a much greater impact than you are comfortable thinking about.
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