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 will not up the intelligence level any. This is the internet buddy. People dont expect intelligence.
Just because this discussion is via internet and not face-to-face, it is to be devoid of intelligence? People may not expect intelligence, but surprise 'em once in a while.
And in truth, I honestly don't understand the analogy you posted at all. Hmmm.... I must be a dumbass.
By "intelligence", I mean to say that one should avoid silly all-or-nothing statements like "If you don't think Piracy has an effect on gaming, then you are a pirate!" and the like.
I believe the overall effect piracy has on whether or not a game is successful is limited at most, and negligible most of the time. Disagreement with that is fine, but I have never seen any concrete evidence to the contrary, and it is not, as a matter of fact, "common sense". It is a specious, speculative assumption, much like reported numbers of pirated games are.
Just because this discussion is via internet and not face-to-face, it is to be devoid of intelligence? People may not expect intelligence, but surprise 'em once in a while.
And in truth, I honestly don't understand the analogy you posted at all. Hmmm.... I must be a dumbass.By "intelligence", I mean to say that one should avoid silly all-or-nothing statements like "If you don't think Piracy has an effect on gaming, then you are a pirate!" and the like.
I believe the overall effect piracy has on whether or not a game is successful is limited at most, and negligible most of the time. Disagreement with that is fine, but I have never seen any concrete evidence to the contrary, and it is not, as a matter of fact, "common sense". It is a specious, speculative assumption, much like reported numbers of pirated games are.
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