Ubisoft commit commercial suicide

[vlad321]

This is the most retarded plan I have ever heard. They just made pirated copies infinitely more appealing then any product they release just because of this stuff.

@anyone who complains about piracy here's a few links:

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693342/Live-Blog-DICE-2009-Keynote---Gabe-Newell-Valve-Software.html

http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/204/starcraft-ii-developers-talk-single-player/2

5th question down.


http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/

So what you have is people who are buying far more games legally (to address irstupid, I bought about 60 games last year, and I do pirate) when they are good games, since none of Valve nor Blizzard's games seem to be having piracy issues, or Civilization for that matter, or Total War, or any good PC game. In other words, you all are spouting FUD and what you have been fed down your throats by the groups like the RIAA.

Here are the 2009 charts:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-most-pirated-games-of-2009-091227/

With the exception for the Sims 3 (the entire franchise has sold well over 100 million so 1% of piracy is pretty damn good I'd think), all those games blow the big one, HARD. They are however good on the 360, so if anything the 360 demographics is the morally corrupt one here. Games which weren't listed as being pirated too much: Dawn of War 2, Empire: Total War, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Borderlands, Torchlight, Machinarium, Demigod, Plants vs Zombies, Tales of Monkey Island.

Here is 2008:
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-games-of-2008-081204/

What do we see, the only passable games here are the following: Fallout 3, C&C3, and PES2009. Everything else was pretty bad, and again The Sims 2 is obvious, it sells millions anyhow. What games DON'T we see on there? Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, Sins of a Solar Empire, World of Goo, World of Warcraft: WOTLK, Warhammer, Dawn of War: Soulstorm. Also many more I can't think up off the top of my head which were good.


There have been no statistics for previous years that I could find.

So how do you explain the low piracy rates on the listed titles? Why are the only ones which get pirated shitty beyond belief? Maybe, just MAYBE, pirates are people who don't deem a game is too shitty for its price tag. Put those figures on top of the fact that Blizzard AND Valve know exactly how to handle such piracy quite effectively, by making good games, and with the fact that pirates spend far more money than non-pirates on the industry and you get the fact that pirates are far less of a burden then legal buyers of games, and we have good taste too. So if everyone was a pirate, we'd see far far less shitty games, for far cheaper, and the industry would still be booming. Anyone else who cant see it is just blind, ignorant, or naive.