Blizzard 'confused' why other devs abandoning PC

[kiwi_2005]

Blizzard 'confused' why other devs abandoning PC; says MP experience is piracy solution.

Couple of kiwi journalists went to Blizzcon (jealous yes i am!) where ive been following their progress on NZ's main gaming forums. While wishing I was there.

full interview: http://tinyurl.com/lgmpn8

Blizzard still has plenty of faith in the PC gaming market, said Pardo, and "it sometimes confuses me why some developers have abandoned PC, because if you do a great PC game, it actually financially makes a lot more sense," because there are no license fees to pay to Microsoft or Sony as there are with console titles. "So I don't know why everyone's leaving it to us and Valve and a few others!"

However he conceded that it tends to be primarily multiplayer games that are successful on the PC platform now, because of piracy. Pardo does not expect Battle.net to completely stop piracy - "pirates are pretty clever guys, so I'm sure there'll be certain things they can do." He said this was why Blizzard has put such a lot of effort into Battle.net 2 - to "incentivise everyone ... to want to play on Battle.net." By making the multiplayer experience better on Battle.net, Blizzard hopes to discourage people from wanting to pirate their games.

Slowing piracy would work one way if devs aim for online activation like steam etc., I think its more the devs would rather not go there instead lets just move to consoles. Multi player focus games whether online shooters or mmorpgs is a better solution against piracy than just the straight out single player.
Example: Few weeks ago i put back on Teamfortress 2 did the bad thing of forgetting my login/pw so thought I would just create a new one thats when everything turned to mud. But after a couple of emails and proof - send image of actual key off the card to Valve plus the secret question which i had to search threw a zillion txts files on my hdd knowing i typed it down somewhere, they then enabled my game. That would make any pirate run away aiming instead for some game thats non activation required.