PC Piracy at 95% according to UBISOFT.

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/364271/pc-piracy-rate-above-90-says-ubisoft/

PC gamers are pirates first according to UBISOFT.Chief Executive Yves Guillemot. He pegs the rate of piracy at 93 - 95%. So UBISOFT is going to concentrate on F2P games to make money in the future as only 3 - 55 of the F2P customers actually buy items which is the same as the piracy rate.

No wonder these guys can't make a good game from start to finish. They are too worried about their IP rather than the game. Crazy! :confused:
 
95%? Please...

F2P is getting annoying. I want to buy a game once and not worry about spending $300 in items to keep up.
 
Its starting to piss me off that everyone is trying to move towards online F2P now. EA went as far as to make C&C F2P, and now Ubisoft too. :rolleyes:

Not every game must be played online with microtransaction, what a colossal waste of opportunities and ideas.
 
that 95% is probably coming from people cracking their own legit copy of the game so they could still play the game if their internet was down.
 
Bought an Ubisoft game once...it was so terrible even before the DRM that I am not buying another. This makes that stance much easier.
 
My level of interest in Ubisoft games:
I saw Driver San Francisco on sale for $1. I didn't even bother.

...Well, I kind of want to play Rayman Origins.
 
Skyrim sold 2.36 million units on the PC. This is a single player only game. Are we to assume they think 47.2 million should have sold on just the PC alone?
 
Nocens said:
Skyrim sold 2.36 million units on the PC. This is a single player only game. Are we to assume they think 47.2 million should have sold on just the PC alone?
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The bigger the company, the bigger the LIES.
 
This is how Ubisoft calculates piracy @ 95%.

We sold 7,500 copies of typical UBISOFT shit game "XYZ"
People pirated (then later deleted) 150,000 copies of typical UBISOFT shit game "XYZ"

Therefor piracy is at 95%
 
Yves is a money grubbing, disconnected individual.
He's very confused and doesn't really understand games, and really shouldnt be the CEO of a video game company. Almost like Bobby Kotick.... Almost....
 
Meh who cares. A bunch of you are going to still support this company and give them your money hand over fist. If all of this was such a big deal stop buying their shit and keeping this company afloat.
 
Climber said:
Meh who cares. A bunch of you are going to still support this company and give them your money hand over fist. If all of this was such a big deal stop buying their shit and keeping this company afloat.
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This is [H].
You are wrong.
Last Ubisoft game I purchased was Rayman, on GBA. 2001.

But then again, you are right. This isnt a big deal.
Cats wont die, because of Ubisoft. Maybe Activision .....
 
These are people i would actually pick a fight with just to submit them and force them to admit they are lying sacks of shit. Not hurt them much. Just get the truth out.
 
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Climber said:
Meh who cares. A bunch of you are going to still support this company and give them your money hand over fist. If all of this was such a big deal stop buying their shit and keeping this company afloat.
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[H] doesn't really "keep Ubisoft afloat". Heck, PC gamers don't either. They're just spouting stuff because they're butt hurt now. And honestly, they know they can claim whatever they want to the PC population because they don't care about PC sales nearly as much as console sales. It's like talking shit to an ex you don't care about anymore because you're getting some from a new girl.

Also, it doesn't take a made up piracy stat to realize that F2P is profitable when done right and that the industry as a whole is embracing it. The biggest barrier for a lot of games is the entry fee. I mean, TF2 went F2P without Valve spouting some piracy bullshit. Ubi just has no tact and like I said, they don't even care what they say anymore because PC isn't their main focus.
 
1) I buy every PC game I play and I have since at least 2004. I have over 200 games on Steam.

2) I have zero interest in F2P games with microtransactions.

This is why traditional gaming companies are dead. They are completely out of touch with what people want. I can't remember the last Ubisoft title I bought, but it's not because I pirated them. It's because their games are shit.
 
Every other study ever done using fact says that number is about 70% too high. Unless you count countries like Kazakhstan.
 
Climber said:
Meh who cares. A bunch of you are going to still support this company and give them your money hand over fist. If all of this was such a big deal stop buying their shit and keeping this company afloat.
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We may be vocal about this, but at the end of the day, none of us are losing any sleep over this. They can do and say what they want, its their own grave they are digging if they start focusing on F2P and it turns out to be a massive fail.

Couldn't care less if they disappear tomorrow.
 
I think the last Ubisoft game I bought was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
 
Dear UBISUCK,

We gamers can pull numbers out of our ass too. Like this: 95% of your games suck. Hurts huh?

[Not so] Sincerely,
The Gaming Public
 
Ubisoft recently redeemed themselves in my eyes with Rayman Origins - suddenly a no hassle game, using Steamworks and no other DRM.

That sentiment fell apart though, when they decided it was time to launch their very own "gaming platform" steamclone, complete with GamesForWindowsMarketplace -like 1$ sales to desperately lure customers, and tedious manual installation and patching of games.
Rot in a ditch Ubisoft, and get bought out by CD Project Red or something
 
reason I dont own any Ubisoft games they dont appeal to me.
I buy the games I play.
 
Ubi really needs to fuck off and drop out of the market for PC games, if they think they are suddenly going to make shit tonnes of money from releasing shitty F2P games then they are in for a heavy reality check.
 
D3 being as successful as it is with it's abusive DRM made me reconsider Ubisoft's position. People accepted Blizzard's DRM, so why not Ubosoft's?
 
95% is about right when you're talking about Ubisoft games.
Quit putting all the DRM BS in your games and people will quit pirating them.

The last Ubisoft game I bought was AC1. I haven't pirated any of their games, because I have enough games in my Steam backlog that I've bought over the last 3-4 years that I could go a good 5 years solid without playing any new Ubisoft game and I'd still have enough to play. That and I really honestly don't give two shits about Ubisoft games to waste my time or bandwidth trying to pirate anything they've come out with since AC1. I'm not saying their games aren't good, I'm just saying I have enough to keep me busy, I don't need to bother with their shit.

They've had plenty of games on sale cheap enough during Steam sales; I just won't buy them because I know the DRM is there. Remove the DRM, you'll make more money. Or, rather ~ don't, and just quit making PC games; I could care less. At this point I'm just sick and tired of this douche talking about PC piracy like piracy only exists on PC.
 
I wonder how many of those are legit buys, but people are using modified executables to avoid the DRM stuff.
That said - I've been happy with the "ports" of Assassin's Creed on the PC. Lots of graphical options and they're good looking, good playing games.
 
Yakk said:
D3 being as successful as it is with it's abusive DRM made me reconsider Ubisoft's position. People accepted Blizzard's DRM, so why not Ubosoft's?
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People accepted Blizzard's draconian DRM because Diablo 3 is a game that core users had been having wet dreams over for the past decade (and that still didn't stop them from bitching and moaning about how terrible online only play is after purchasing it despite knowing this beforehand).

Ubisoft doesn't exactly have any franchises with that sort of legacy which would cause users to discard all rational and critical thought processes.
 
Yves is a douche. Ignore him.

I'm looking forward to Assassin's Creed 3 and Watch Dogs quite eagerly myself.

As usual, I like how it's ok for Valve to have their DRM strapped on a shiton of first and third party games and one time online activation is cool there but God forbid anyone else and especially EA and Ubisoft do it.

Always online DRM? Bring on the hate. Ubisoft tried that and got burned. So far *knocks on wood* they haven't brought that back.
 
I bought one of their games on steam, once. HAWX 2. Bought it months ago. So far, I have put exactly "0" minutes into that game. Can't connect to the servers, times out and disconnects me.

For this reason I can't bring myself to buy another game of theirs (and there are some that I would like to play) because I can not be online all the time.

Let me put it this way. If I saw someone getting robbed and then called 911 to report it and I got arrested while the robber got away without a problem, why would I do it again?
 
Kerkain said:
I bought one of their games on steam, once. HAWX 2. Bought it months ago. So far, I have put exactly "0" minutes into that game. Can't connect to the servers, times out and disconnects me.
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I though they patched out the always online concept on their games after it was proven what a disaster it was and when it was defeated anyways?



For this reason I can't bring myself to buy another game of theirs (and there are some that I would like to play) because I can not be online all the time.
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Games that came out past that shouldn't have that problem. Splinter Cell Conviction, the AC games...that's really strange.
 
Yakk said:
D3 being as successful as it is with it's abusive DRM made me reconsider Ubisoft's position. People accepted Blizzard's DRM, so why not Ubosoft's?
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Because half of these whiners are the 90% they are talking about but Blizzard gets a pass because they are Blizzard. Dont try and make sense of it.
 
ounumen said:
Because half of these whiners are the 90% they are talking about but Blizzard gets a pass because they are Blizzard. Dont try and make sense of it.
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Same as Valve having their DRM all over shitton of games, without negotation, and it's one time online activation and that's ok but horrible if anyone else does it, especially EA and Ubisoft.

They're all thankfully doing one time activations only vs "always online" which again proved to be a sheer disaster for Ubisoft when they tried it.

Blizzard...not sure what to make of that.


Past that: I've see more stories about games leaking out on the consoles and especially Xbox 360 to a point that the "PC is the land of anarchy and the consoles are this safe haven" lie just can't hold any water any more with a straight face. It was always a myth to begin with.

So again, Yves is a douche. Ignore him.
 
Q-BZ said:
I though they patched out the always online concept on their games after it was proven what a disaster it was and when it was defeated anyways?
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Didn't know anything was patched out. I have cared so little to even check up on it. But now I may.
 
Q-BZ said:
As usual, I like how it's ok for Valve to have their DRM strapped on a shiton of first and third party games and one time online activation is cool there but God forbid anyone else and especially EA and Ubisoft do it.
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Q-BZ said:
Same as Valve having their DRM all over shitton of games, without negotation, and it's one time online activation and that's ok but horrible if anyone else does it, especially EA and Ubisoft.
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:rolleyes:
Yes because the Steam client is no better than some of the shit Ubisoft has put into their PC titles.

I could care less about Origin in the same regard. The general distaste I have for EA is because I prefer to have all my PC games under one library and now that EA got a wild hair up their ass and came up with their own "service", they've removed 98% of their games from Steam.
 
I was going to say this is old news, and came about when GRFS was pulled from the PC last year...but oh my lord, they are still keeping on which this idiotic imaginary statistic.
 
It always seemed to me that game developer studios were invaded by Hollywood types that pushed "sex and violence" and pumped out games totally formula based and VOID of any innovative content that made for a compelling game playing. Much like Hollywood and television cannot for the life produce a descent movie or TV show.
If anyone doubts this just read up on what Peter Jackson had to go through to bring a descent representation of the LOTR trilogy to the screen. The Hollywood hacks at New Line Cinema was insisting on condensing the trilogy into a single movie with scantly clad fairy women prancing around with brainless hack and slash monster fest story line. The trilogy almost didn't get made at all because Peter Jackson stood pat on being as faithful (as possible) to the JRR Tolkien work.
 
Plague_Injected said:
I was going to say this is old news, and came about when GRFS was pulled from the PC last year...but oh my lord, they are still keeping on which this idiotic imaginary statistic.
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Indeed.





zero2dash said:
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Yes because the Steam client is no better than some of the shit Ubisoft has put into their PC titles.
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It's DRM. That's what everyone's bitching about right? All DRM is bad, isn't it?



I could care less about Origin in the same regard. The general distaste I have for EA is because I prefer to have all my PC games under one library and now that EA got a wild hair up their ass and came up with their own "service", they've removed 98% of their games from Steam.
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I see.
 
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