Ubisoft: PC piracy rate around 95%, F2P is the way forward

[Alby_da_Wolf]

pezus said:

BenVTrigger said:
Alot of people are gonna call this out as not true but its likely a figure very close to this.

Simply go to any torrent site and see how many millions of downloads games get.

Hey I fully support PC gaming and understand why people pirate but if I was a developer I wouldnt go near th PC market with a 10 foot pole. As much as PC gamers try to downplay it Piracy is rampant and a huge problem.

And I pretty much agree with him F2P is the future of PC gaming

Millions? The only games that get pirated in the millions are games that sell in the millions.

You do know that most sites don't show how many total downloads there have been? ThePirateBay: Sleeping Dogs (most popular file): 3000 seeding and 5000 leeching. And that is a new release. 400 are seeding the 360 version btw and 700 leeching.

For the 93-95% to be even remotely true, downloads would have to be 10m+ per game with less than 1m sold. That just doesn't happen. So, that stat is taken deep from within someone's private behind. 

This!

And @BenVTrigger about ourselves and piracy: 15 years ago I used to pirate games and buy legit music, but then I grew so fed-up of music industry (too many LPs and CDs with just two or three good songs and the rest just crap to fill them, and at ever growing prices, not to mention that in Italy, before iTunes and Amazon, they used to cost twice as much as in UK) and IP lobbies and so satisfied of the best games developers that I started doing the opposite, I never pirate games anymore and I pirate music. Movies, I watch them on TV, my dad used to subscribe to pay TV, but when he died we didn't renew the subscription anymore, what's broadcasted free to view is more than enough, even more now with digital terrestrial TV. I go to cinema every now and then with friends of gf, but never alone, and now I got a gf living 10,000km away, so even cinema with her just can't happen.