Up to 95% of Ubisoft's PC Games Are Pirated, Says CEO

[teaser]

Dont flatter yourself ubisoft........

 

[demonhorde665]

"That may not be good enough. According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, 93 to 95-percent of the company's PC games are pirated despite its DRM efforts. "

what a moron of a CEO their games are are NOT pirated despite their DRM efforts, their games are pirated more BECAUSE of their DRM efforts. Me personally i just stopped buying and stoped playing any pc game with ubi's name on it myself.

 

[eddieroolz]

Perhaps if Ubisoft stopped strapping gestapo-like DRM on their games I'd have more respect.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]They're just saying that because they want to believe that more people play their games, and just aren't paying for it. The fact is, most of their games are buggy crap. I won't touch any of their games with a 10 foot pole, just like EA. These days, the only company making games close to worthwhile is Blizzard.[/citation]


you are joking arn't you , blizzard hasn't pushed out one original game idea in a decade and a half , WoW , star craft 2 , diablo 3 , note these are all franchises that were well and established in the mid to late 90's. sure repeats may be fun for a little bit but utlimately you are doing the same thing you were doing ten or 15 years ago in their games. that's not good game design , it's called riding the curtails of past sucesses , which is a huge part of medocrity... no blizard is not that good at making great games any more. they are good at churning out medocrie games that rake in huge piles of cash on nostalgia reasons alone.

 

[beayn]

I honestly don't know anyone who pirates anymore. Steam sales are the way everyone has gone. The big games they've been waiting for, they just pay the price rather than deal with all the problems. I have no idea where he gets these statistics. Unless of course, he's saying out of 100 games made, 95 of them were pirated at some point despite DRM. That I could believe.

But only 5% of people buying them and the rest downloading? I call BS.

 

[Guest]

whats a ubisoft?

 

[randomizer]

...we can make cheaper games and improve them over time...

Translation: "We release buggy garbage and fix it later."

 

[PsiCoRe]

[citation][nom]crysex[/nom]Because UBI games suck and not worth buying! I will buy games if it is really good even I pirated it first.[/citation]

Nobody would need to pirate games to check them out if the publishers offered decent trial releases and I'm not talking about buggy, incomplete demos.

 

[jurassic1024]

UBISOFT should give up on Crysis. It's sucked since Warhead.