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."
That may be Tumbler. The problem to me seems that when you stagger releases, you lose a lot of the impulse buying that would occur if the game were launched simultaneously. Take a game like Assassin's Creed. The hype machine really worked at getting that game more sales than it would have otherwise. PC gamers, on the other hand got to watch as the hype died away and the game was made to stand on its own merits long before it ever shipped on PC. The result was that it sold poorly on PC.
When I heard about Assassin's Creed for the PC, I was stoked. But by the time it shipped, I had heard so much negativity about (some warranted, but a good deal of it wasn't) that I wasn't really all that excited about it. I got it on a discount from Gogamer.com, and while I enjoyed it, all of the incessant negative comments about it sort of tainted my view of it to the point that I was noticing minor flaws I might have otherwise ignored had it not been dissected and over-analyzed countless times on the internet.
Me, I think they are ensuring poor sales on PC by staggering releases like this, but of course the old scapegoat of piracy will be blamed.
When I heard about Assassin's Creed for the PC, I was stoked. But by the time it shipped, I had heard so much negativity about (some warranted, but a good deal of it wasn't) that I wasn't really all that excited about it. I got it on a discount from Gogamer.com, and while I enjoyed it, all of the incessant negative comments about it sort of tainted my view of it to the point that I was noticing minor flaws I might have otherwise ignored had it not been dissected and over-analyzed countless times on the internet.
Me, I think they are ensuring poor sales on PC by staggering releases like this, but of course the old scapegoat of piracy will be blamed.
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