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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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Piracy has always been around and will always be around, and anybody with half a brain would factor that in. Torrent numbers mean nothing. "Data Mining" that some stupid lemming hails as proof for OMG PROBLEMS means nothing. It does nothing but give the developers and publishers a convenient excuse why their shit did not sell.
Ask Stardock, who releases games without any copy protection or DRM. They get pirated but the games are so well done that those who seriously want to play them, pay. Look at Blizzard, their stuff was pirated to high heaven and sales still were/are through the roof, enabling many-year development cycles.
Take your shitbag of a game, cry to your boss about the douchehattery on torrent and keep making shit games until the cows come home. Your crap will never sell because it's crap.
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Maybe shady DRM protection and other things made it so? I certainly don't see DRM or other Securom types of protection since they're enforced all that time, aren't they?
IWhy are you defending the very thing that's bringing the PC games industry to its knees? Do you like playing flash games? I hope you do because that's all you're going to be doing if people like you have their way.
I'm not defending pirating, do I have to say that one more time? Re-read my posts on this topic and you'll soon see I'm not foo. Have you ever thought that same moronic and stupid "protection" systems hurt the industry instead of helping it? Look at some rare smart publishers and devs puting out games without any protection and selling better than most with it. Stop being blinded by word "protection" cause it does nothing to help stop piracy, only entices it.
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