Gears of War 2, I bought it cheap used, but the online was just shockingly bad, the slow matchmaking, the balance issues, the bugs, the lag.....for a system that prides itself on the quality of its online play, Gears 2 was an abomination.
[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Wow the same post 5 times in a row, FOUR times from the originator of the post. Good one. You can't say that all those who pirated it didn't buy it, it's something you can't possibly know. With an MP game the only sales you're losing are those who would be willing to buy the game and only play the single player. That isn't very many people. Most who just pirate for the single player on this sort of game wouldn't be buying it anyway and at best would be renting it. I honestly don't know why that happened. ._.
lol at all the damage control from Hermits in this thread, Cevat Yerli from Crytek alread said that Crysis was going to Consoles because of how heavily the game was pirated by PC gamers, they lose an exclusive like every week, The Witcher 2, Minecraft, Crysis 1 & 2, Deus Ex etc.... Same thing with former PC exclusive developers like Epic Games, id Software, Crytek, Bethesda, CD Projekt etc..... Don't take my word for it..... Cevat Yerli of Crytek, the makers of Far Cry, Crysis and Crysis Warhead has publicly stated: "We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that's the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy, to the degree [that PC gamers who] pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we won't have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future." John Carmack, often called the 'father of PC gaming', and co-founder of id software, makers of the Doom and Quake series, recently stated: "It's hard to second guess exactly what the reasons are. You can say piracy. You can say user migration, but the ground truth is just that the sales numbers on the PC are not what they used to be and are not what they are on the consoles." Cliffy B, lead creator at Epic Games, makers of the Unreal Tournament and Gears of Wars series, has been quite outspoken on this topic: "Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC. Right now, it makes sense for us to focus on Xbox 360 for a number of reasons. Not least PCs with multiple configurations and piracy." Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games, makers of Supreme Commander, also chimes in with his assessment: "...people are going to stop making [games] on the PC because of my earlier point, what's happened on the PC with piracy. The economics are ugly right now on the PC. You're not going to see these gigantic, epic investments of dollars on the PC when it just doesn't work. The economics have to work. You're going to see those investments made on the console side and it's going to become a more console-centric investment. And then you're going to see them ported back over to the PC and that creates a different experience on the PC." Robert Bowling, Community Manager at Infinity Ward, the makers of games such as Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4, provided a fairly blunt opinion on the issue. He made a blog post entitled 'They Wonder Why People Don't Make PC Games Any More', the title of his post along with the contents clearly linking the move away from PC game development with piracy: "On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online).... the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding."
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