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[QUOTE="DanielDust"] Ask yourself, how is that relevant? Ubisoft makes no money on PC, why do you think they should care about other companies that make a decent profit? they don't care and they shouldn't, it's not their business. rhazzy
It's relevant because their excuse for not making money is piracy; and the fact that plenty of other companies make profits on PC games completely discredits that excuse.
There is no such thing as "plenty of bla bla"...How many company's are making Triple A games on PC with a profit that can sustain the initial investment???
Some Vale games,The Witcher,The Sims series maybe CoD series and SC series...Ofc there are alot of other games out there which makes profits but those games are low to mid budged games...How many companys can afford to spend 100 mil $ on a game and make profits solely on PC?I think u can count them on the fingers of one hand...So when you say "plenty bla bla" it sound unlogical...
In order to make good games with high quality developers needs a lot of money...the PC market cannot sustain big budged games...that would mean every big budged game would have to sell 1 mil + on PC alone(to cover the cost and make nice profits)...How many games on pc sell millions these days?And not when they are on sale with 10 bucks...iam talking about full price...very very few games do that...
So NO...the word "plenty" cannot be associated with making money on PC or profits...
And ofc how many Triple A games makes profits on console?The majority of the big budged games make decent to huge profits on console alone:
AC series
FIFA series
Oblivion and Skyrim made the most profit on xbox360
Mass Effect series
LA Noir
GTA series
Gears of War
Dragon Age
Dead Space series
Bioshock series
Batman AA & AC
Resident Evil series
CoD series
NFS series
Crysis 2
Homefront
Fallout NV
Almost every exclusive,either for ps3 or xbox
Even BF 3 sold more on consoles
etc ,etc, etc,...
So what we'r talking about here??
Uhh PC exclusive games do just fine. Look at Blizzard games, always a huge success, PC only. Now why are they always big successes? Because they are quality made games with a long life that gets full support from Blizzard for years. What about Half Life series? Portal? They were PC exclusives for a long time and they did just fine. Again, quality games.
Ubisoft have had some pretty good PC exclusives in the past, but they are few and far between, and their console ports range from pretty decent to downright appalling. The quality of their games is too erratic, you simply cannot rely on them to consistently produce games worth buying. It's probably something to do with the fact they release about 3872989854793 games a year.
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