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."
It's funny how some of you only hear what you want to. Please explain to me how you get "Piracy isn't at all a problem" from "Piracy is not the main reason the game failed". These are 2 completely different statements. To pretend to answer the first statement when in fact people are using the second is a strawman argument.
Spore got so many million downloads, blah blah blah. Last I heard, EA was bragging about ho much money they are making off of Spore. To me, that fact alone pretty much shoots the theory that piracy causes games to fail out of the water.
And VGReagle, your attempt at being all holier-than-now with your inexplicable statement really only makes you sound like an arrogant prick, which in reality I'm sure you're not. Try to up the intelligence level a tad.
But why? What is the difference between releasing concurrently versus releasing a year later? Not saying you're wrong, I just need an explanation because I don't see the connection.
This comment was edited on Oct 8, 2008, 20:06.
Spore got so many million downloads, blah blah blah. Last I heard, EA was bragging about ho much money they are making off of Spore. To me, that fact alone pretty much shoots the theory that piracy causes games to fail out of the water.
And VGReagle, your attempt at being all holier-than-now with your inexplicable statement really only makes you sound like an arrogant prick, which in reality I'm sure you're not. Try to up the intelligence level a tad.
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.
But why? What is the difference between releasing concurrently versus releasing a year later? Not saying you're wrong, I just need an explanation because I don't see the connection.
This comment was edited on Oct 8, 2008, 20:06.
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