Ubisoft Plans to Have Piracy Solution in Place This Year

[Alterego-X]

bodhi14 said:

Alterego-X said:
They should give away the games for free, that would reduce the piracy.

yeah, and how are they going to make money?

 

1.From in-game advertisments. If I can watch my TV channels for free, it can't be that hard to apply the same business model for games. 

Or even if they would need to reduce the budgets, it wouldn't bother me, the $100 million blockbusters of our days are overrated.

 

 

2. From hardware sales. Nintendo could easily support its developers from the tons of money the DS and Wii make. Sony and Microsoft would either have to release cheaper consoles next time, or sell them for more money. Third parties could get their money directly from the console company, for the number of hours their game was used, or whatever. 

I would gladly buy a $600 console if it would mean no later responsibility at all, but loads of free games. I'm poor, and while I had that amount of money once, I instead grabbed the opportunity to buy a gaming PC, because I was afraid of the razor and blades model, afraid of getting tied to a console, and paying the price of the cheap hardware later.