90% are pirates anyway

Hang me by the neck, till dead.
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colours high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars, (no, no beggars)
never shall we die.

Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
-- with the keys to the cage...
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green!

Only good games worth my money. Your turn Ubi...

That's why he is EX-employee

i remember when you had to pirate on of the Assassins creed games because the legal copy didn't work...

I wonder why that is....oh yeah, their pc ports are shitty, overpriced, buggy, without steamworks,... they're only worth it at 75%off, that's why I still haven't played Black Flag, Rayman Legends and more, they devalue their own games with that shit.

That's not an excuse to pirate their games though, at least not for me.

And meanwhile in Poland/The Pirate Bay:

Hey guys!

It's Karol from 11 bit studios, the developers of This War of Mine.

We are really happy to hear that you like our game. They prove, that spending 2 years on it was worth it.

I would like to say thank you to everyone, who decides to buy the game and support us - because of that we'll be able to develop TWoM further and create even better games in the future.

If because of some reasons you can't buy the game, it's ok. We know life, and we know, that sometimes it's just not possible.

Here are some codes for the steam copy of the game, so some of you can take a look at it. And if you like the game after spending few hours in, then just spread the word, and you'll help us a lot.

Enjoy!

PF3Q4-IVQ86-T53KP
H8IW9-07JPH-FR5ZM
J70B9-4RAGP-2EILP
8FGE9-T2HYF-WBEA9
G6J6Z-WYXPP-8B42N
BDD8R-WNJPX-RJR66
WR47R-DAGGN-K030Y
PBPCZ-I4PGT-TI4EY
89BE4-EW45W-JA8ZL
XVQL4-80DDC-YPX7A

This is original post under torrent of the game This War Of Mine - keys are already used.

All ubisoft representatives talk about 90% pc piracy. That's so obsolete...
Perhaps they should work on a good way to avoid that, and not what they have done until now..

Ubisoft still makes a huge profit every year despite the poor quality of it's releases, poor reputation and awful ports. Even if the revenue is focused on just the PC sales alone, I am sure that they make enough to turn a profit, don't quote me on that though, just a poor assumption.

Despite the issues, majority of gamers still continue to purchase their games, and even pre-ordering them though the only incentives are DLC's & modes/challenges/items that should have been in the game in the very first place and other bonuses that should are purely non-essential. AAA companies do not need early support via pre-orders so besides the wants of trivial bonuses, other points are just moot.

But gamers in general are easy to exploit and accept risks and shoddy practices that no other market demographic would even accept.

I'm from eastern europe and i'm one of those 10% or maybe even 5% who buys games, but say a big no no to ubisoft games. Not going to pay for their games until they start to respect us. Ubisoft don't want and don't deserve my money.

Their games I bought: Rayman Gold for 3€ in 2003

Their games I pirated: Far Cry in 2004.

Didn't even know - or care - it's pirating, my uncle's friend was selling hundreds of games for 2€ each. Why would it be something illegal, right? That's how it was and in many countries around the world still is.

Source

And surprise surprise, PS3&X360&PSP users can and do pirate too.

What an ignorant idiot. I bet he pulled this number out of his stinky ass.

people you need to understand that PC gamers are not 90% pirates.gamers can be classified in a ton of categories like free to play gamers,pay to win gamers,pay to play gamers(subscription pay games)and pay for the game gamers that are on steam,uplay,origin,desura,gog or even retail.And last but not least,people that pirate everything.

OFC you can have a person that is part of one or more of these categories but the statement that you shouldn't put money into PC gaming just because 90% of the gamers are pirate is complete bullshit and shouldn't be taken seriously.You can pirate console games just as easily as PC games but Ubisoft is just trying to search for an excuse for their incompetence.

Yeah, every developer/publisher says this, if their game is an untested unoptimized shit.

Guys, its a business, its about the money. They know the actual numbers and dont really care about fixing them (pc sales). This is happening in every market with every product. There are a few golden ducklings between, some companies that generally care and believe they can achieve greatness with honesty and putting the customer first.

All Im saying is, the root problem in the system - the profit motive.

Oh look: the "Some do it therefore all of them do it" logical fallacy that leads to radical feminists declaring all men rapists, or that proclaims all white males are sexist and inherently racist because of the color of my skin. God I love being a sexist, racist, rapist pirate! All the generalizations!

Some times DRM is a reason to pirate, not protection from it... In general I don't use pirated software, but... I buy MS Visio for Office 365 (I have Office 365 Small Business as well), but I can't active it more then week and I waste a lot of time with ** MS support!!! And today I finaly give up and install pirated version... because I need it ASAP to finish my project, I'm about week in delay... I'm not filling as pirate, because I buy it and I'll remove it after I finaly actiave my legal copy, but it's very disturbing, that it's easy to install pirated version, then legal...

Anyone still buying ubisoft games? lolz Endless assassins creeds..
Last game worth purchasing - child of light.

You know how to stop pirating? Give them incentive to buy the original. Example: FIFA 15. If you torrent it, you only have offline mode which is 40% of the game. There's online, online master league, ULTIMATE TEAM which is the game's biggest mode. Make them WANT to have the original, not just impose stupid protection which does more bad to the ones who give the money than those who do not. Pretty simple. Yves just fucked himself, because he basically will lose 90% of the Eastern European gaming audience, if he goes on like this.

its not just Ubi,i remember guy responsible for gears of war speaking how shitty pc and pc gamers are,cause of piracy,completly ignoring,the fct that gears of war port was so fking bugged...even the save game tend to just vanish,not even mentioning non existing multiplayer!But hey,they were generous enough to give us this broken port...HA!sck my ckc!Than theres EA,with their constant pushing of unfinished games...Jesus,Hellgate could have been such a good game if it wasnt so rushed...the EA politics=give us 100$ we give you half finished game and than "give you the opurtunity" to buy the rest as a dlc ^^Well fck u EA!And Capcom hehe...DLC is already on the disc but u have to pay again to use it ^^thas some serious trolling.Thats all just scratching the surface,but its the bad bad pirates...

Alleged

Ex-Employee

Well, at least you get something to circlejerk about.

kek totally agree.
Now let me pirate Assassin's Creed Rogue which is only available for xbox now. Oh! more seeds than leechers. noice.

You can count the number of pirated downloads of your game on PC.

You can't do that on PS/XBOX.

Pirates are everywhere, there are more percentage of PS3 owners pirate games than PC owners in my country.

Devs looking at the number of downloads on a torrent site, slavering while counting his money.I just want to puch those greedy assholes,break their jaw and make them SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT PIRATES.