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Piracy slowly killing PC games
In May 2008, Crytek announced that it will be abandoning PC exclusivity due to problems with pirated copies of Crysis. Now, Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater revealed to Videogaming247 reasons why the copany won’t bring the anticipated EndWar to the PC.
Ubisoft has been having such big problems with piracy of Assassin’s Creed that they sued the disc’s manufacturers, Optical Experts Manufacturing. This is because the PC-version was leaked to the public two months before the…
Epic’s CliffyB thinks PC gaming in disarray
Epic’s lead designer, Clifford Bleszinski, who got his major career start during the golden age of PC gaming during the ’90s with titles like Unreal and Jazz Jackrabbit, told the MTV Multiplayer blog last Wednesday (February 13, 2008) that the platform will probably be secondary for him from hereon out.
“I think people would rather make a game that sells 4.5 million copies than a million and Gears is at 4.5 million right now on the 360. I think the PC is just in disarray… what’s driving the PC right now is Sims-type games and WoW and a lot of stuff that’s in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That’s the direction PC is evolving into, so for me the PC is kind of the secondary part of what we’re…















