Ubisoft: I Am Alive will not release on PC due to piracy

As you all may know I Am Alive been in development for so long many thought it was cancelled but only recetnly is when Ubisoft confirmed the game to be releasing very soon for the PS3 and Xbox360 via their networks which left few PC gamers wonder, when is the PC release? now wonder no more as Ubisoft confirm there will be no PC version :o.. why you may ask? due to too much piracy on PC.

Ubisoft dude says:"We've heard loud and clear that PC gamers are ( not so good word ) about there being no version for them," Mettra said to IncGamers. "But are these people just making noise just because there's no version or because it's a game they actually want to play? Would they buy it if we made it?"

Mettra continued that if 50,000 PC players buy the game it's not worth the cost of putting a team of 12 on the project for three months. He continued, "It's hard because there's so much piracy and so few people are paying for PC games that we have to precisely weigh it up against the cost of making it."

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Translation: "The game is sh*t, it won't sell, let's blame piracy."foxhound_fox

more than likely and Ubi have generally been pretty balls out stupid with some decisions this gen.

What a douchebag.

The guy is completley ignorant of the PC market.

... or maybe not. Maybe he realises his pice of **** game isn't going to fool any PC gamers.

Ubisoft gimps their game with DRM that hinders only the customer.

Pirates gonna pirate.

Real customers get screwed over by Ubisoft.

Real customers can not play the game and have to resort to piracy in order to play it.

Real customers learns about Ubisoft DRM and avoids any future title from Ubisoft.

Ubisoft whines about piracy and how they're losing sales from it.

Ubisoft releases more obnoxious DRM to screw over their remaining customers.

The cycle continues.

This is the same company that came out and admitted that with their DRM service they saw both a decrease in piracy rates, and a decrease in legit sales.

Seems they don't really know much about releasing games on the PC.

Lame reason. How good has the Ubi game Trackmania 2 done?

So we're all pirates basically? :|

YAAAAR! Ye best be walking thee plank for that thar comment ye scurvy game developer, yargh. :twisted:

I'm on the fence with this game. It sounds really good but I haven't seen any gameplay footage at all so it makes me think they're hiding something. Anxiously awaiting reviews.

He blames piracy, which is fine, it's their product. Yet he states about only 50,000 people purchasing it. I think that would entail the quality of the game as well. If the sales are low, it could likely be due to people not wanting the game.

Sorry Ubisoft, won't buy it on any system you put it on. You had such a great premise but now it looks like crap.

Ubisoft,the company with the worst form of drm out there is complaining that people don´t buy enough copies of their games on the PC?

Gee...I wonder why? .lol:

He blames piracy, which is fine, it's their product. Yet he states about only 50,000 people purchasing it. I think that would entail the quality of the game as well. If the sales are low, it could likely be due to people not wanting the game.

lundy86_4

Haven't you realised? We as the consumers have to bend over and take whatever the corporations give to us! It is our duty to be mindless wallets on legs that throws money at any remotely shiny object.

I think there ought to be a legislation against not buying every piece of entertainment.

So we're all pirates basically? :|

YAAAAR! Ye best be walking thee plank for that thar comment ye scurvy game developer, yargh. :twisted:

Goyoshi12

lool that just made me laugh, you reminded me of pirates of the caribbean movies lol, the more i read what i wrote the more i laugh, i tried to make it as funny and less serious as possible :P

Ubisoft,the company with the worst form of drm out there is complaining that people don´t buy enough copies of their games on the PC?

Gee...I wonder why? :lol:

Maybe you should look at the sales of TW2 that sold 1M copies(and counting) in less than two months withouth any drm lol.

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He blames piracy, which is fine, it's their product. Yet he states about only 50,000 people purchasing it. I think that would entail the quality of the game as well. If the sales are low, it could likely be due to people not wanting the game.

Vesica_Prime

Haven't you realised? We as the consumers have to bend over and take whatever the corporations give to us! It is our duty to be mindless wallets on legs that throws money at any remotely shiny object.

I think there ought to be a legislation against not buying every piece of entertainment.

Indeed. We should know that everybody wants to buy the game, it's just that if nobody does, it was clearly due to piracy :lol:

"wallets on legs" indeed!

Ubisoft,the company with the worst form of drm out there is complaining that people don´t buy enough copies of their games on the PC?

Gee...I wonder why? :lol:

Maybe you should look at the sales of TW2 that sold 1M copies(and counting) in less than two months withouth any drm lol.

Arach666

I have a feeling Ubisoft is completely disconnected from the outside world.

They never read gaming news, or track sales of other titles to see how well theirs will fare.

It'd be really hard to be this oblivious.

And not a single **** will be given by the pc community

Game will probably be trash.

First it was Future Soldier and now this too? OK, Assassin's Creed Revelation will be my last UBsoft games then.Talk about ignorant

More than likely he knows the game isn't that good and is wiling to bet that is ell more on the consoles than the PC. But piracy is everywhere, from music, to Pc titles to PS3 titles.The best any company can do is try to minimalize the loss they incur.

I like that people can be like "oh man, this game looked sweet", then its not coming out for their system and they're like "it looked terrible anyways".

The best way to prevent piracy is to lose the entire pc market, good plan SAGE_OF_FIRE

Well, that's certainly not false :D

Ubisoft's think-tank has finally struck gold with an idea!

I like that people can be like "oh man, this game looked sweet", then its not coming out for their system and they're like "it looked terrible anyways".

SPYDER0416

[QUOTE="SAGE_OF_FIRE"]The best way to prevent piracy is to lose the entire pc market, good plan SW__Troll

Well, that's certainly not false :D

Ubisoft's think-tank has finally struck gold with an idea!

Lol....love all these comments. "Game isn't on PC so it must be trash!!!!" Umad PC gamers? I myself...thought this game was cancelled years ago, and have stopped caring since. Will believe it's out when I see it.killab2oo5

nope with all the crap they've given us most of don't give a **** about them now :)

Sometimes i wonder, is piracy is the real issue here??? i mean every 10 year old kid know how to flash his xbox 360 and i bet there is even amount of piracy on XBOX 360 as we speak than PC if not more, yet they still develop the same games on that console.

No gentlemen, piracy is not the issue here....

[QUOTE="killab2oo5"]Lol....love all these comments. "Game isn't on PC so it must be trash!!!!" Umad PC gamers? I myself...thought this game was cancelled years ago, and have stopped caring since. Will believe it's out when I see it.NoodleFighter

nope with all the crap they've given us most of don't give a **** about them now :)

Lol....love all these comments. "Game isn't on PC so it must be trash!!!!" Umad PC gamers? I myself...thought this game was cancelled years ago, and have stopped caring since. Will believe it's out when I see it.killab2oo5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse_accident

Sometimes i wonder, is piracy is the real issue here??? i mean every 10 year old kid know how to flash his xbox 360 and i bet there is even amount of piracy on XBOX 360 as we speak than PC if not more, yet they still develop the same games on that console.

No gentlemen, piracy is not the issue here....

Siamak8286

The issue Ubisoft has stems from the fact that they expect consoles games to sell on the PC, and they also expect DRM to go over well with legit buyers.

Sometimes i wonder, is piracy is the real issue here??? i mean every 10 year old kid know how to flash his xbox 360 and i bet there is even amount of piracy on XBOX 360 as we speak than PC if not more, yet they still develop the same games on that console.

No gentlemen, piracy is not the issue here....

Siamak8286

Not every 10 year old knows how to do that. Furthermore, where did you ascertain the information to draw such a conclusion?

How much could it possibly cost to port a game to PC? A team of twelve for 3 months. Let's say on average each member of the team earns 70,000$ dollars a year (this is probably generous). So for 3 months, 12 people, that's 210,000 dollars in salary. Now let's assume that for every PC copy sold the publisher earns $40 in revenue (probably an underestimate especially for digital downloads). That's 2 million dollars in sales, assuming only 50,000 people buy the game. How is this not worth it? What non-salary expenses will they have that total up to nearly 1.8 million dollars, or enough to not make selling a PC version profitable?major_silva

Translation: "The game is sh*t, it won't sell, let's blame piracy."foxhound_fox

Another thread that ended on the first reply. I can't see how this went on to 3 pages.

I hope they know that piracy on Xbox360 and PS3 is on the rise and combined would probbly be more than pirating the same game on PC.

I hope they know that piracy on Xbox360 and PS3 is on the rise and combined would probbly be more than pirating the same game on PC.

hofuldig

Translation: "The game is sh*t, it won't sell, let's blame piracy."foxhound_fox

I hope they know that piracy on Xbox360 and PS3 is on the rise and combined would probbly be more than pirating the same game on PC.

hofuldig

It would still sell more there because the console audience is who the game will be designed for, and advertised to.

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I hope they know that piracy on Xbox360 and PS3 is on the rise and combined would probbly be more than pirating the same game on PC.

lowe0