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."
And in the very near future, most of said games will never see the light of day on the PC. Case in point: EndWar, Gears of War 2 and many other upcoming 2008 and beyond games.
EndWar is coming out for the PC. The developer basically confirmed it. And I'd be truly surprised if GoW2 didn't come out for the PC a year or so after the 360 release.
Contrary to your opinion, an increasing number of games are getting PC ports. NBA 2K9, for example, is getting a PC port for the first time. Capcom is now doing proper PC ports for almost every game. Hell, even Last Remnant, a JRPG from Square Enix, is getting a PC port. That'll be the first PC port of a JRPG in years. The current trend shows an increase in the number of PC ports rather than a decrease as you suggest.
At the end of the day, when you develop a game you plan on releasing for the PC, you better take into account that there is a very good chance that 75% or more of the sales is going to be lost to piracy.
Uh, didn't you just accuse wallace of pulling numbers out of his ass..? Since there's no possible way to measure losses due to piracy, I'm guessing you pulled that 75% out your ass.
Why else do you think so many devs & publishers are in trouble, most gone out of business, bought out entirely etc?
Bad management? No business sense? Lack of talent? You're not actually trying to argue that developers like Flagship failed due to piracy, are you?
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