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."
Piracy is just not as rampant as every chanter wants us all to believe, and if you make a product worth buying, people buy it.
Oh BS man, piracy is every bit as rampant as they say it is. The number of torrent sites alone boggles the mind, thats ignoring Usenet and other P2P alternatives. Piracy is astoundingly widespread these days and easily accessible thanks to BitTorrent. People just hide behind the usual arguments "every download isnt a player!", "they wouldn't have bought it anyways!", "just a console port!!!!", etc. No one with a brain is fooled by that crap. I see people of varying tech levels all day every day bring in their computers for me to fix and what is on almost all of them? Porn, movies and games.
The trouble is that they blame ALL of their problems on piracy alone. Piracy is a major factor thats hindering the platform but it's not the only one. Lack of demos is a real problem, people turn to piracy to demo the product and once you have something for free it's quite easy to use it's flaws as a justification to not purchase it. Pricing is also a problem, Assassin's Creed is relatively shallow but still fun - unfortunately it's about $20.00 more expensive than it should be. I especially shouldn't be paying retail price when I dont get a box or manual.
I'm personally just sick of publishers blaming piracy but then doing nothing about it. Fine blame it, who cares what is to blame. Just DO something about it. They just give up and move onto the consoles, its depressing. Try something for a change.
This comment was edited on Oct 8, 2008, 11:51.
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