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'm starting to hate the PC gaming industry.
It might help to know that neither Ubisoft or EA is making PC games these days...so you might want to stop buying console games for your PC...
All those games you mentioned, while some may have roots on the PC, are 100% console games. It's a different experience and the company's are not interested in making PC games. They want to sell their games on the PC, but they don't make PC games.
So just point your anger at the console gaming industry. Companies like Valve and Relic are still making PC games, and blizzard, and those companies are coming out with some pretty amazing stuff.
It's just takes a long time. I think console gaming has gotten us used to having something new every week or 2 and it doesn't matter if it's good or not because we're on to the next new $60 game next week.
And just like a drug dealer the companies keep cutting their quality and content so that we get less and less of our fix but we keep paying the same price. And we keep rushing out to buy the newest POS they throw at us hoping it will be like it has been in the past.
Eventually you'll hit bottom and see the console industry for what it is, an empty wasteland without a soul, motivated only by profit. And maybe then your dollars will start going to companies that make the games you want.
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