Developer: Pirates plundering PC games industry – Plugged In – Yahoo! Games

May 18 3:58 P.M. On an individual basis, software pirates are about as intimidating as your average History undergrad or IT professional. But according to Epic Games President Mike Capps, they’re a multi-million-strong raiding party that is pillaging the PC gaming industry. This, in turn, is forcing traditional PC game developers to shift their efforts away form the PC and toward the relatively piracy free , says Capps, whose was known as a PC developer through the late 1990s and early 2000s. “If you walked into this place six years ago, Epic was a PC company and always had been,” Capps recently pointed out to Unreal Tournament, and everything else was PC.” Gears of War on both the PC and the Xbox 360. But after the PC version was massively pirated, the company released their 2009 follow-up, Gears of War 2 , for the Xbox 360 alone. They’re taking the same approach with next year’s Gears of War 3, much to the chagrin of the company’s PC-owning fans. “If you read our forums, people are saying: ‘Why do you ha…[Filtrs in article: Farmville Game News ][FiltrRank: 7][Source: videogames.yahoo.com]

Developer: Pirates plundering PC games industry – Plugged In – Yahoo! Games