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."
I may be mistaken, but didn't they complain about piracy with Assassin's Creed? That was a game deserving of criticism. Like you said, it was fun but not as fun as its price would indicate. Thus, it didn't sell well because apparently a lot of other people felt the same way about its price.
In Assassin's Creed's defense, they never promised some clone of Thief in the first place. If you played it without expectations, it's a pretty enjoyable game with a decent narrative and amazing engine. The gameplay gets repetitive after awhile for sure but that's an accusation you can make about any game these days. I think it was pretty good for what it was and the port was very well done with the exception of the menu UI.
And look at Gears of War - that game didn't do badly on PC because of piracy, it did badly because it was bad, or at least far from the caliber PC gamers want. And Epic says they won't do Gears 2 on PC because it was pirated? I doubt any PC gamer here is all broken up about that. Gears on PC reaped a tiny reward, like it should have. But don't turn around and blame the very people you're trying to sell your product to for its failure. As a consumer, it's not my fault Epic released a bad game.
Thats fine but Gears of War isn't every console port. Just the assumption that every console port sucks is stupid. Hell there are people around here posting ahead of time they will pirate a game if its ported from a console. That's not really helping prove publishers wrong about piracy or make them want to continue making games for our favorite platform. It's fine to vote with your wallet but be respectful and for christs sake, don't be the hypocrite who calls a game shit after he played it from beginning to end and paid zip for it.
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