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 keep talking about Value in PC games and here are some upcoming titles and their prices:
Saints Row - 39.99
Dead Space - 49.99
Far Cry 2 - 49.99
C&C3 - 49.99
Fallout 3 - 49.99
CoD:WW 49.99
NFS:Undercover - 39.99
GTA4 - 49.99
Tomb Raider - 39.99
Prince of Persia - 49.99
Burnout Paradise - 39.99
Splinter Cell Conviction - 49.99
How many of those games would be willing to say are going to be "great" PC games? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say none.
Really? I see the potential for great games in Far Cry 2, C&C RA3 and Tomb Raider. I expect GTA4 to be damn good as well. CoD and Splinter can surprise and be brilliant. I guess if one is suffering from sequelitis, then that entire list could be a problem...
If somebody wants something, they HAVE to get it by any means. There is no such thing as self-restraint or discipline.
Huh? That statement makes no sense to me. Maybe you're just hanging around with the wrong people? Or were you being facetious to make a point?
EDIT: Re-reading it, I suspect I might have missed your sarcasm the first time.
This comment was edited on Oct 9, 2008, 20:53.
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