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#1 Multiplatform because of piracy
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:35 am
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Shack News.
id and Epic: Multiplatform because of piracy
Across two separate lectures at this week's Game Developers Conference, id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and Epic Games president Michael Capps both admitted that piracy of PC games caused their companies to pursue developing beyond the PC platform. "Piracy has pushed id as being multiplatform," stated Hollenshead, whose company contracted Z-Axis to handle the PlayStation 3 version and Nerve Software the Xbox 360 edition of Splash Damage's forthcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC).
Comments made by Epic's Capps carried a similar tone. "PC gaming is really falling apart," he revealed. "It killed us to make Unreal Tournament 3 cross-platform, but Epic had to do it," adding "the market that would buy a $600 video card knows how Bittorrent works." Epic is currently developing Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in-house.
Yeah, right. Like there's no piracy in console games. Say, have those guys ever visited Hong Kong? Or Jakarta?
Now excuse me, I'm going to play a pirated version of HALO on my XBox.
Disclaimer: I'm kidding. I don't play console games, let alone pirated ones.
#2
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:03 pm
by B4UTRUST
Hell I'm the one who's modded most of my friends' xboxes in the past, doing everything from dual hard drives, alternate boots to a legit install on a HD or the cracked version depending on button push, etc. It's not fucking hard.
Playing pirated games on consoles is like a three year old learning to turn on a tv. It's just that easy if you put your mind to it.
#3
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:13 pm
by Ace Pace
Except that plain fact, most piracy is centered around the PC, not around consoles.
#4
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:14 pm
by Destructionator XV
Consoles might be easy to pirate if you put your mind to it, but not as easy as PC pirating, so it isn't as common. Also console games reach a different and perhaps broader market, which might not be interested in piracy anyway.
#5
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:19 pm
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Destructionator XV wrote:Consoles might be easy to pirate if you put your mind to it, but not as easy as PC pirating, so it isn't as common. Also console games reach a different and perhaps broader market, which might not be interested in piracy anyway.
Really, Adam, when you come to Jakarta someday, remind me to take you to the
Glodok district.
#6
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:25 pm
by Ace Pace
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Destructionator XV wrote:Consoles might be easy to pirate if you put your mind to it, but not as easy as PC pirating, so it isn't as common. Also console games reach a different and perhaps broader market, which might not be interested in piracy anyway.
Really, Adam, when you come to Jakarta someday, remind me to take you to the
Glodok district.
Funfact: they don't care about Indonesia, or most of the developing countries.