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Capcom Blames Piracy for Poor DMC4 PC Sales
by Aaron Linde, Aug 01, 2008 8:00pm PDTCapcom corporate officer Christian Svensson revealed that the PC edition of the company's demon-slaying action title Devil May Cry 4 (PC, PS3, 360) saw poor sales since it debuted early last month, owing in some part to rampant piracy of the game.
"It's not doing as well as I would like in the US at retail," Svensson wrote on Capcom's official blog. "It's such a good version and it really deserves better sales. I know it's getting pirated to hell and back (it was up on torrents literally the day it shipped)."
The executive added that he had pushed for more prolific digital distribution of Devil May Cry 4's PC incarnation, but was stonewalled by Capcom Japan. Despite the frustration, Svennson reiterated his commitment to bringing more Capcom titles to digital distribution outlets.
"For the record all CEI-developed titles will be distributed extremely widely via digital channels... I've spent the last year building up that channel," Svennson stated, noting that GRIN's downloadable side-scroller Bionic Commando Rearmed (PC, PS3, 360) would see "broad digital distribution for PC."
"I have a presentation I'm making shortly that I'm hoping will make that approach something we do with all of our PC content, even those developed in Japan, but no promises. It might not happen," he added.
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Also, gnoleb's post wasn't a professional statement about his company, I read it simply a way to point out how companies get their numbers on pirates to illustrate how it's not the non-issue some people think it is (because usually people just go "you can't know how many people pirate your game, all your numbers are made up for more effect").
He doesn't mention what company he works for nor what games he worked on which IMO is a good idea to reduce the amount of "it's because your company/game sucks" responses. There is zero need to "expose" him in order to what, ridicule him? Try to invalidate his argument?
Frankly, I don't see the need to take "little fucker" personally at all, the people he meant know who they are. And calling THEM little fuckers, well, I'd do the same - and since he wasn't speaking in any official capacity for a company I can't see anything wrong with it. Lighten up FFS.
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