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."
Coming From Ubisoft and being launched on the 360 and PS3 at the same time, I highly doubt this is anything other than a console port.
It is entirely possible Far Cry 2 will end being a dumbed-down disposable console-riffc waste. But the game was conceived as a PC game, and developed mainly for PC for a long time before the console versions were announced. (Of course you could argue it was all part of the sinister plan to dupe PC gamers into thinking it was an honest-to-goodness PC game).
But my main point, a question really, is this: With you being so obviously jaded about it, could you ever really acknowledge that Far Cry 2 was a great game if it turns out to be an excellent PC shooter? Or are you destined to pick it apart and analyze every tiny detail, documenting all the places where it looks like a console development mindset rather than a PC development mindset was utilized? Is this gamed doomed to failure in your mind?
This comment was edited on Oct 10, 2008, 16:44.
It is entirely possible Far Cry 2 will end being a dumbed-down disposable console-riffc waste. But the game was conceived as a PC game, and developed mainly for PC for a long time before the console versions were announced. (Of course you could argue it was all part of the sinister plan to dupe PC gamers into thinking it was an honest-to-goodness PC game).
But my main point, a question really, is this: With you being so obviously jaded about it, could you ever really acknowledge that Far Cry 2 was a great game if it turns out to be an excellent PC shooter? Or are you destined to pick it apart and analyze every tiny detail, documenting all the places where it looks like a console development mindset rather than a PC development mindset was utilized? Is this gamed doomed to failure in your mind?
This comment was edited on Oct 10, 2008, 16:44.
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
Date
Subject
Author
Copyright © 1996-2025 Stephen Heaslip. All rights reserved.
All trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
Privacy Policy. Manage Cookie Settings.
News CGI copyright © 1999-2025 James "furn" Furness & Blue's News. All rights reserved.
Chatbear v1.5.0/blue++: Page generated 22 June 2025, 09:51.