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| | (Post a comment) » Epic's CliffyB cites piracy as argument against GoW 2 PCSpeaking to Total Video Games Epic's Cliff Bleszinski discusses Gears of War 2 and how it compares to the original game in the series. When speaking on GoW 2, TVG asks him his opinion of the Xbox 360 versus the PC:
TVG: Do you see the Xbox 360 as the main platform as opposed to the PC? During the whole Unreal time it was very much PC focused.
CliffyB: The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips. Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.
TVG: So piracy was a main point for you...
CliffyB: Right now, it makes sense for us to focus on Xbox 360 for a number of reasons. Not least PCs with multiple configurations and piracy.
TVG: But when the dust has settled, is there any possibility of Gears 2 on PC?
CliffyB: No.
TVG: Definitely not?
CliffyB: No.
Personally, I'm a little skeptical that piracy played much of a role in lackluster sales for Gears of War PC. IMO, the fact that the game shipped a year after the game hit the 360, as well as a slew of compelling FPS games that shipped in the same 4 week timespan played more of a role than anything else. What do you think? With id, Crytek, and Epic all focusing on consoles first rather than PC, what AAA FPS developer is left other than Valve? |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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 kornedbeefy (10)  Oct 02, 2008 - 11:32 am
| Can we cut the chase and agree that Cliffy B. is just a 360 fan boy. He spouts B.S. just like they do.
Gaming editors need to stop giving this console fan boy the opportunity to spread his PC gaming hate venom. He's been saying the same shait for almost a year now over and over.» Login to reply to this |
sbuckler (33) Oct 01, 2008 - 07:42 am
| They are still smarting because ut3 didn't sell like they wanted it too. Nothing to do with piracy - new people just didn't want to play the game, and they then did a great job of p**sing off all the hard core fans - so they stopped playing too.
Their response has been "stuff the pc". Well EPIC stuff you.» Login to reply to this |
  Kessandra (1008)    Oct 01, 2008 - 01:06 am
| Hey morons: Spore sold a million copies a few weeks ago. Spore is a PC exclusive. Spore also happened to be the most pirated thing on the Pirate Bay for weeks, beating movies, music and more. It was also the most pirated game on several other torrent websites, achieving 500,000 downloads since launch on one website alone.
Did the DRM stop the pirates? No. Did the pirates affect sales? No. The pirates will always be pirates, period. You cannot factor people that will never buy your game to say that they affected sales, because they didn't. There are enough legitimate customers in this world that won't go online and download a game. Galactic Civilizations II and Sins of a Solar Empire, both without any form of DRM sold well. So did Relic's Company of Heroes which shipped without DRM.
Piracy isn't killing the PC games industry. It's developers that can't recognize that fighting piracy is futile and that by fighting piracy you are discouraging legitimate customers from buying your game. I am certain that if Spore dropped its DRM, all the 1-star ratings on Amazon.com and other websites along with the enormous amount of people boycotting the game wouldn't be doing so and Spore would have easily hit 2 million sales.
Fact of the matter is Gears came to the PC way to late, came with the shit-tastic Games for Windows Live, had some bad bugs and poor optimizations and was stuck competing with many other great (or better) FPS's.
CliffyB was bought out by Microsoft long ago. It's time to realize that it's not Cliffy speaking but rather some Microsoft higher-up speaking through him. Ignore his foolish comments that "Anyone who's smart enough to pick out a good PC will go on the Internet and rob us".» Login to reply to this
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