Piracy Pushed Us to Consoles: id and Epic
Across two separate lectures, two of the industry’s biggest PC-heavyweights expressed their concern at piracy, stating that it has pushed them to release their games on consoles. Id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead gave a lecture on the problems of piracy on the Internet at GDC, disclosing that, though they will still develop for the PC, they have begun to look to consoles as it is harder to pirate on consoles. The company’s upcoming game – Enemy Territory: Quake Wars – will be making its way to the PS3 and Xbox 360, besides the PC version.
Hollenshead’s sentiment was reflected by Epic Games’ president Capps. “PC gaming is really failing apart,” he said. “It killed us to make Unreal Tournament 3 cross-platform, but Epic had to do it.” He also added that the market “that would buy a $600 video card knows how Bittorrent works.”
It seems that fewer and fewer triple-A PC titles are being released everyday, and that the consoles are getting all the attention. What’s your opinion on the topic? Is piracy really killing PC gaming?
March 12th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Im one of the persons that did to gaming
…but if i like a game i go out and buy it. Theyre barely any games out now that I care for. With the next gen coming its gonna rock hard. I dont blame this on piracy, I blame the companies for not writing good code to make it alot harder.
I would make it like EA did where u register ur game and that cd key is locked. Nobody can use it. Thats what i would do.
March 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
thats bs. its not our fault they have lazy developers. I mean think about it. Look at bf2 & bf2142 then there is WOW and other games like that. I wonder why can’t we play them online by just downloading. Blaming piracy for their lazyness….thats bs.
March 12th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
There’s Steam. Which is probably quite hard to crack, but then again, I don’t know. I just know it’s a LOT easier to copy and paste a serial in while installing a game.
March 12th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
“It killed us to make Unreal Tournament 3 cross-platform, but Epic had to do it.”
What a load of crap. How was it hard for them to cross platform the game because of piracy… I think the real problem is that they just like flinging excuses around. Their remark about cross platforming doesnt even relate to piracy. If anything it relates to their (lack of)ability to code for all platforms. If they are refering to a financial loss because of the PC, I think they are incorrect. Any hardcore FPS gamer is going to choose to buy/pirate an FPS like UT on PC, not a console, its a fact that FPS is better on PC… so they arent really losing money, because if they didnt release it onto the PC I doubt the hardcore FPS gamers would migrate to the consoles just to play UT, since UT has always been one of those games that we love to play wih a mouse and keyboard.
Bah. I might just be venting here, but that statement of theirs seemed way out of place.
March 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Yeah it didn’t really make sense to me either.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:40 am
Well it somewhat the truth guys, the piracy is killing the gaming market. How many games actually will go online thats anygood? Quake Wars,Battlefield3-there has to be one coming with the bcompany engine(frost Bite),star wars battlefront 3,halo2,call of duty 4(3 wasnt made by the ppl that made 1/2,universe of starcraft,c&c3,ut3.
Boom, those are my games that ill only pay to go online for man. If i know im only gonna get games for single wtf am i paying 50 bucks for 8 hrs of gameplay? The single players games that are coming out.
medal of honor Airborne
alone in the dark
jade empire
teenage muntant ninja turtles the movies
gears of war
castle wolfenstein
heaven vs hell
war dogs
stalker
halo 2
silent hunter 4
ghost recon aw2
bia hh
alone in the dark near death investigation
frontlines fuel of war
fall of liberty-makers of call of duty where nazi won ww2 and came to america to fight us.
half life ep 2
indiana jones 07
the wall
dark sector
eye of the storm
project offset
the settlers vI
crossfire
rogue warrior
possession
bioshock
timeshift
prey2
kane & lynch : dead men
far cry 2
prince of persia 4
blacksite : area 51
left 4 dead
project IM
current good online games…. wow,coh/cov,= gay cuz u have to pay for them. cod,cod2,css,dods,bf2,bf1942,bf2142,cs1.6,cz, basically for fps its cod,bf,and cs/steam games that are only good and ut04.Then u have some others like age of empires and warcraft and starcraft. I personally feel more games should come out that will have great multiplayer as. Cuz if u have a great multiplayer with ur gamez and do something like steam to register ur game itll be so hard to crack.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:42 am
I’m just tired of buying 600 video cards when developers are pussing out on us. Its pissing me off, theres only 1 good fps exe good for the pc. And thats crysis coming out :\
March 14th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Yeah it’s lame how graphics take over actual gameplay and the more important elements of a game.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
damn I thought devs made more money by makin games go multi platform ?. Am I lol losin my mind or what ? lmfao this is gettin like gang warfare. PC devs dont wanna go on the Crips Turf (Ps3) , the Bloods turf (360) ,or the Hells angels turf (Wii). Is that what it is ,hell I wouldnt give a damn if pirates force me to that. I’d thank for wakin me up, so I can make more money!