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EndWar PC Coming After Consoles Due to Piracy; PC Pirates Would 'Cannibalize' Console Sales
by Chris Faylor, Oct 08, 2008 3:12pm PDTFollowing up on yesterday's report that a PC release of Tom Clancy's EndWar is likely, creative director Michael de Plater has now revealed that piracy is to blame for the delayed PC version of the Ubisoft Shanhai-developed 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,"
Plater told VG247. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions of EndWar arrive November 7.
"The level of piracy that you get with the PC just cannibalizes the others, because people just steal that version," he elaborated. "Piracy's basically killing PC."
In addition to Ubisoft, publisher Electronic Arts is also known to delay PC versions until after a game hits consoles, though it has not explicitly cited piracy as the cause.
For example, EA Redwood Shores' Dead Space hits PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 14, with the PC version coming the next week. And DICE's Mirror's Edge, once slated to ship simultaneously on consoles and PC, will now hit PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 11 while the PC version is targeted for a vague "winter" release window.
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PCs are for people who do more than play games. A user can create, publish, edit, modify and do all that good stuff to data.
PCs users generally use their PC's processor for more than just graphics, such as creation and manipulation. Unfortunately this freedom to manipulate data is frowned up by the suits. Never forget that true technological revolutions have been fronted by people who think outside the box, who don't work with such constraints. After all, the computing era was ushered in by hackers who simply wanted to know how things work who I might add were not engineers of any kind, they were just curious fans of technology. They have taken that freedom away from consoles and transformed it into a mutated version of the music business where even today, in 2008, Eric Clapton would not stand a chance.
Follow the music business...pure dilution with every passing generation, same with the movie business. The gaming business is very hot on their trails.
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1) Waiting half an hour to install
2) Spending 2 hours looking at forums for solutions to crashes, sound bugs, etc.
This would explain why more people game on consoles than the PC/
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