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.
The Sick, Twisted Fuck | Sap #2 of the Bitter Trio | Knight of the e-mail | Evil Liberal Conspirator | Esoteric Order of Dagon | Weird TGODer
So be it. If saying "NO" means being alone, then to hell with love, with romance, with marriage, and all the shit life keeps pumping at me. I'll walk alone, but with freedom and a healed pride.
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.
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Dorsk 81: this is why I support the separation of Aces eyebrow's, something that ugly should never be joined
Mayabird:You see what this place does to us? It's like how Eskimos have their 16 names for snow. We have to precisely define what shafting we're receiving.
"Do we think Israel would be nuts enough to go back into Lebanon with Olmert still in power and calling the shots? They could hook Sharon up to a heart monitor and interpret the blips and bleeps as "yes" and "no" and do better than that, both strategically and emotionally."
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.
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.
The Sick, Twisted Fuck | Sap #2 of the Bitter Trio | Knight of the e-mail | Evil Liberal Conspirator | Esoteric Order of Dagon | Weird TGODer
So be it. If saying "NO" means being alone, then to hell with love, with romance, with marriage, and all the shit life keeps pumping at me. I'll walk alone, but with freedom and a healed pride.
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.
Dorsk 81: this is why I support the separation of Aces eyebrow's, something that ugly should never be joined
Mayabird:You see what this place does to us? It's like how Eskimos have their 16 names for snow. We have to precisely define what shafting we're receiving.
"Do we think Israel would be nuts enough to go back into Lebanon with Olmert still in power and calling the shots? They could hook Sharon up to a heart monitor and interpret the blips and bleeps as "yes" and "no" and do better than that, both strategically and emotionally."
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