Ubi, Pirates and Release Dates

[Fat Bhoy Tim]

Originally Posted by macky

I have 2 points to add:

1) According to PC gamer there is no decline in PC gaming, in fact this will be the year of the PC. With dual core being favoured by MS and big game developers as being the breakthrough. Windows vista was made for the pc gamer. Doubt MS would throw away a lot of developing money if they thought the pc market was in decline. Although we dont see a lot of pc games on shelves, apparently the online market (legitamate one not the pirates) is booming. World of Warcraft have exceeded 8million subscribers which is bigger than many countries :p

A declining market share in comparison to consoles, sure I can see that easily but I find the information stating declining total sales because as the article posted above says, the PC is becoming ironically what it was before - a niche platform.

[kptn_kaiserhof]

theory qestion if someone did not have the internet how will one register sh4 online?

perhaps have a ubi soft registy hotline like with microsoft??

[HunterICX]

Piracy

Nowadays , its something you cannot avoid it too happen,
in the early days it was not as worse as today, but why?
there are several reasons.

1: The games nowadays have a lot in promise
2: The amount of pirate sites that can easily be found
3: the age of the person who dowloads it, you cannot think a 14 yr old gains enough pocket money for all the games he has on his computer
4: The speed of the internet nowadays, the minimal that people have is 1 Mbit. go figure.
5: The games nowadays is poor quality/ or are in e Pre-ready state-(so the buyers have to test it), I bought BF2 , and NEVER going to buy any of the titles again. it has been an complete dissapoinment with the amount of Exploits , Glitches, bugs and errors, and FALSE promised patches that had to fix the amount of problems the game came with. 50€ down the toillet
6: *see 5* People are wondering or are afraid of the same dissapointment, is the game worth my 50€?, try & Buy thingy mention before by other posters.


thought the MP function in some cases are well defended, like CD key requirement
some games need an unique cd key in order to play online if its used before or its in the blacklist because it duplicated, or its a fake one.
the best defence of a MP feature is a .exe check.
if it sees that the .exe have been modified by a fix that it will block ur attempt of joining an online game.


things that could reduce the amount of piracy is:

*bring out a DEMO for the people to try (to see if they like it and how it runs on the system)
*Bring out the product as the final game and not something that is filled with bugs and has been poorly tested.
*make the Multiplayer feature extra attractive and hard to fool with pirate versions (like mentioned above , unique CD key and a .exe checker)

hearing me say this all, well I have red a lot about the piracy stuff, it really is interesting how they manage to beat the publisher too it. its also a big shame that it is, but hell.
the games are a big target and the movies and music as well. its a simple fact that is on the dark side of the internet. Just ignore the fact that someone has it and be proud that you support the publisher when you get the Game in the Box you paid for

but sometimes a publisher cannot exeed the budget they get for the game, its poor.
hopefully SHIV will turn out well, thought I,m not going to buy it as I have no interest in the pacific at all

(hopefully what I have said above isnt breaking the TOS of Subsim)

[IRONxMortlock]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

5: I bought BF2 , and NEVER going to buy any of the titles again. it has been an complete dissapoinment with the amount of Exploits , Glitches, bugs and errors, and FALSE promised patches that had to fix the amount of problems the game came with. 50? down the toillet

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