Epic President: “The Money’s On Console”

[vlad321]

Funny, Valve and Blizzard have had zero problems making money off the PC, even before Steam and WoW.

Also, piracy is a scapegoat for shitty developers. Then again, I haven't even haerd them bitching about any of this until they realeased that bucket of shit they called UT3. Only THEN it was all "OMG THE PIRACY!!!11" Coincidence? I think not. Make good games or gtfo and develop console games, but don't try to blame piracy on your own inability to make a worthwhile game. Even the guys who did Bad Company 2 admitted it's much easier to sell games to the console crowd since they have lower expectations. I'll grab the quote in a minute.

 

Edit: Here it is, the truth all comes out. It's not the piracy that's killing the PC after all.

http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/battlefield-bad-company-2/1082050p1.html

The quote in question is the very first answer:

Gordon Van Dyke: It's not a shift in focus, but more like somewhere we wanted to explore. I think what happened was, consoles have reached a level where we could introduce people to something we had been giving to PC players for quite a while. It was an exciting opportunity. So we really focused on that. There are more expectations of us, for the PC game. It almost kind of makes you weary, you get nervous, you put these unrealistic expectations on yourself as a developer. You forget that the whole premise is to get something out there that's really fun. We realized that BC2 was going to provide that. We have a lot to live up to on the PC, and I think the original Bad Company's focus was to kind of...reintroduce Battlefield to a new audience on the console. BC2 is like, maybe in retrospect, we could have given BC1 to the PC but we didn't. We didn't feel like it was worth it to go back and try and do that, but we thought, "Well, let's give them BC2." It lived up to expectations, I think, what PC players were expecting. Especially for a new engine.

 

Basically, people on the consoles have far lesser expectations than the people who play on the PC so it's far easier to milk them out the ass with far less work.