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 actually consider Far Cry 2 as being ported to consoles from PC, not vice versa.
That may have been true early on, but I'm pretty sure consoles became the lead SKUs after they announced the game was going to be multiplatform. Firstly, ever since the announcement, all footage, previews, demonstrations, etc, have been of the console versions. Secondly, the console versions have to be submitted for certification at least a month before the desired release date. This means they inevitably receive the most attention.
As for C&C, yeah, it is a PC series so I'd have no issue with paying full price. That is, if it's good and if it doesn't come with retarded DRM.
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