Epic: �Piracy Killed PC Gaming� �Only Facebook Will Save It�

[Lockon]

Epic Games, makers of such manly shooters as Unreal and Gears of War, claim piracy forced them to abandon the PC, and that Facebook based gaming may be the only viable future the platform has.

 

In an interview with a gaming rag, Epic Games president Mike Capps spoke about the reason the company abandoned the PC:

 

 

 

âIf you walked into [Epic's offices] six years ago, Epic was a PC company. We did one PS2 launch title, and everything else was PC. And now, people are saying âWhy do you hate the PC? Youâre a console-only company.â

 

We still do PC, we still love the PC, but we already saw the impact of piracy: it killed a lot of great independent developers and completely changed our business model.

 

And guess what? Itâs because the moneyâs on console.

 

 

Although many will attempt to dismiss this as hyperbole, it may well be supported by the facts â traditional US PC gaming shrank from a $1.6 billion market in 2001 to a $538 million market in 2009, whilst console markets grew substantially in the same period.

 

He goes on to laud the successes of micropayment based Facebook game Farmville, the âbiggest game of all right nowâ:

 

 

 

âSo, maybe Facebook will save PC gaming, but itâs not going to look like Gears of War.â

 

 

 

Via Sankaku Complex

 

 

 

[Randomrocket]

God, I hope the "new" facebook games aren't like far mville.

 

I like my Crysis and Command and Conquer. Those will only be good on the PC. RTS games have always sucked for consoles.

[lostmodz26]

Piracy will never go away. That doesn't mean they have to stop making games for certain platforms. Just look at how Piracy has effected the iPod Touch, and now the Xbox.

 

People will eventually learn how to pirate Facebook games. Its just something that has to be prevented by the developers.

[Slidell]

Piracy will never go away. That doesn't mean they have to stop making games for certain platforms. Just look at how Piracy has effected the iPod Touch, and now the Xbox.

 

People will eventually learn how to pirate Facebook games. Its just something that has to be prevented by the developers.

 

Comparing xbox piracy to PC piracy is like comparing a mongoloid to Stephen Hawking. Everyone and their moms pirate PC games.

[Randomrocket]

Comparing xbox piracy to PC piracy is like comparing a mongoloid to Stephen Hawking. Everyone and their moms pirate PC games.

True, but all it takes is time. Someone is gonna find a super easy way to pirate xbox games and then everyone will do it.

[miinaturvat]

True, but all it takes is time. Someone is gonna find a super easy way to pirate xbox games and then everyone will do it.

 

It's called flashing the DVD drive firmware

[gruntmods]

Comparing xbox piracy to PC piracy is like comparing a mongoloid to Stephen Hawking. Everyone and their moms pirate XBOX games.

[Quinn]

360 pirating is so easy. You flash it, then download, burn and play. Not too hard?

[Randomrocket]

It's called flashing the DVD drive firmware

I meant something as easy as putting it on a flash drive and putting it in your xbox

[slasherking823]

its funny, people seemed to think for awhile that since I made usb xplorer they could do that...

[gruntmods]

its funny, people seemed to think for awhile that since I made usb xplorer they could do that...

they thought that about hard drive transfer cables too.

[Slidell]

360 pirating is so easy. You flash it, then download, burn and play. Not too hard?

 

Yes as long as there are people who pay $100 for someone to set up their 360.

Edited May 21, 2010 by Slidell

[Quinn]

Yes as long as there are people who pay $100 for someone to set up their 360.

 

 

lol, if people cannot follow a tutorial, they probably don't deserve to have their xbox flashed. Just sayin