Ubisoft: EndWar PC Impacted by Piracy [Oct 08, 2008, 09:31 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Videogaming247 quotes Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater
on how piracy is a reason Tom Clancy's EndWar is appearing on consoles
first, with plans for a PC edition remaining vague (story). He
says this of a PC version of the voice-controlled RTS game: "To be honest, if PC
wasn’t pirated to hell and back, there’d probably be a PC version coming out the
same day as the other two," also saying: "You know, the level of piracy that you
get with the PC just cannibalizes the others, because people just steal that
version." He goes on to agree with dire predictions about the impact of piracy
on PC gaming: "But at the moment, if you release the PC version, essentially
what you’re doing is letting people have a free version that they rip off
instead of a purchased version. Piracy’s basically killing PC."
Multiplayer and digital distribution are the easiest ways to defeat piracy and probably the least costly
If a game is popular enough, there will be ways to play multiplayer with copies. And digital distribution has done nothing to prevent "piracy". For example, every Steam exclusive game was available on release date as a non-steamed copy. Not to mention those people, who do not care for multiplayer. Sadly, no money from them ...
I wish, pusblishers would simply stop caring about those copies and concentrate on making a good game, which will, surprise, surprise, sell well enough, because people WANT TO BUY IT. But fear and paranoia are hard to overcome ...
This comment was edited on Oct 8, 2008, 10:54.
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