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."
Any publisher these days, dumb enough to release a PC game day and date as the console version, is just begging to be ripped off. Its really that simple.
In fact, most publishers doing triple-A games these days just happen to release a PC version as a sort of 'residual' income to those few PC gamers who actually do buy games.
And anyone denying that piracy has no effect on PC game is one dumb sumbitch. Or a pirate. Or both.
As I have said before, in the very - VERY - near future, all PC games will rely exclusively on off-site authentication.
SecuROM et al all get cracked (Spore? Cracked in under 24hrs) routinely.
In fact, most publishers doing triple-A games these days just happen to release a PC version as a sort of 'residual' income to those few PC gamers who actually do buy games.
And anyone denying that piracy has no effect on PC game is one dumb sumbitch. Or a pirate. Or both.
As I have said before, in the very - VERY - near future, all PC games will rely exclusively on off-site authentication.
SecuROM et al all get cracked (Spore? Cracked in under 24hrs) routinely.
Game developers are just human beings who happen to make games for a living. If you want to hold us up to higher standards of conduct, then go ahead
...but don't be surprised if we don't uphold them
...but don't be surprised if we don't uphold them
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