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This video should answer everyone’s questions.
True, but what’s the sense of playing a multiplayer game by yourself? The multiplayer is what sells those games, and the same could be said for fighters. The only people who play the single player in fighters are: People without access to the proper training mode, the lonely, the curious who want to see a character-specific ending, and to unlock shit.
If you couldn’t play pirated TF2 and CSS online you’d have a point.
Eh, you can but it’s a pain in the ass to do. You have to use Momochi, and most of the servers are out in Russia, and it’s a pain in the ass to get set up, and there’s not a lot of servers.
I think the hassle and lack of players and reliable connections would more than dissuade people.
would never work would be pirated to hell
The last thing Seth or Sven said about any Capcom PC game about a month ago was ‘stay tuned’ or something along those lines. I hate those ambiguous answers, probably means more Dark Void-type games or similar nonsense. All I care about are fighters and RE5 Gold content.
To everyone raving about piracy this and piracy that, you’re delusional. The reason they don’t make a port is 'cos they’re fucking lazy and that it doesn’t sell as well. That’s got nothing to do with piracy, just 14 year old timmy and his 2000 facebook friends have an xbox - more people play on consoles than PC these days.
You only have to look at games like WoW, steam sales during their sales etc. to see that people buy games. Y’all making out like everyone who plays on PC fucking pirates and this is not true.
Piracy also doesn’t equal lost sales, people need to stop posting retarded shit.
wait, why not?
Because most people that pirate do so because they don’t think the game is worth their money, whether because of the money or they aren’t interested in it.
Basically, if it wasn’t for piracy, they wouldn’t have played it at all.
Now, used games are the fucking cancer.
I am all for it. I would love the option to play on my PC as my system is unreliable.
That, and then there’s the factor of demoing a game.
I have a friend who often pirates games and then buys them afterwards if they are good, and uninstalls if they’re not. If actually representative (or at least existing) demos were common-place these days, piracy would probably be a lot lower (though again, numbers don’t really mean anything anyway).
The PC gaming industry is killing itself with bad full-price games for 60$/?/40£, a lack of demos/trials, terrible DRM that punishes exclusively the people who actually spend money on the game, and bad console ports that can be described as “shoddy” at best. Piracy doesn’t even come close to being the scapegoat ignorants and CEOs make it out to be. Not that I approve of piracy, of course.
Hell yes, ignorance abound.
Xbox360 Piracy is becoming VERY popular, especially games that are leaked early, those are often pirated more than their PC counterparts.
Hacking is a rare, if not completely eradicated problem.
I’ve been playing PC games for years, and I haven’t seen an Aimbot or speedhack and what have you for at least 6 years, not a single one.
Especially with VAC and Steam, very easy to ban problem users altogether.
I didn’t play much Street Fighter IV online, I was an Arcade person (And got a year of xbl for Super since no arcade release at the time) but I clocked up about 13 online hours on SFIV PC, didn’t ever see hacking, using a lag switch is far easier to use (Not that I’m saying I even encountered this online) less dangerous to use (Both for ban evasion and less risk of malicious software in your PC) and works on any system on any game, universally.
What capcom needs to do, is release this on Steam, Steam is creating a PC market where money-grubbing Retail stores are pretty much out of the picture, Valve asks less money from each sale, you get free Advertising on coming soon and new release pages.
And you get a lower price for the same amount of money coming back to you, or have the same retail price with more money coming back to you.
And they need to ditch the GFWL bullshit, Even Lost Planet 2, bought on Steam, is integrated with that rubbish.
Blaming piracy is pretty dumb. It’s still gonna happen. It just doesn’t happen on PC either. If it’s a good game, it’ll sell well despite the pirates. Creating stupid DRM that hurts paying customers will probably just increase piracy.
Steam Sales Estimated Close to $1 Billion in 2010 - Paul Tassi - Insert Coin - Forbes
Piracy sure is killing PC gaming.
Go ask Chad Warden what he thinks of PC version of marvel.
Given the fact that it is now almost as easy to pirate a PS3 game as a PC one, can we get over the piracy argument? It’s just a diversion from the core problem that there does not appear to be a market for fighters on PC. Even though it might make money, the same people working on, say, SFxT, would help make that game better and thus sell more copies.
Grab a PS3, wait for the Linux community to get a working Linux OS for it, use your PS3 as a second PC. 
they should make it. Not everyone has(or wants to buy) a PS3/360.
IF it gets put on PC, i hope they make the online play cross platform like valve said they’re doing for portal 2. That would be awesome.
Xbox piracy may get you banned? Sure that’s true. What’s also true is PC piracy doesn’t let you play online. You gonna spend 300+ hours on MvC3/SF4 playing against the AI? Be my guest.
While I want a PC version of this game, Xbox Piracy getting you banned happens quite a bit, if you jTag it, if MS’s sweeps come past you, you WILL be banned, the CD flashing, not so easy, many people modded their 360’s with the original disc flash hack and are still playing online to this day, however.
I don’t have experience in pirating SFIV, but I recall some talk about using a code from a $5 GFWL game could somehow be used to enable a pirated SFIV to be used for online.
If Valve handles the online, no online play from pirates aside from russian hacked servers that nobody plays on and has no VAC, seriously, working something out for MvC3 online infrastructure to be handled by Valve (Not that I’m saying it is possible, I wouldn’t have a clue) would mean a few things:
VAC, very efficient ban mechanism.
Possible cross platform play with PS3, again, not sure if it’s possible but it could be discussed with the whole Portal 2 thing going on.
And being on Steam WITHOUT the bullshit GFWL crap and DRM on top of Steam DRM, has almost literally never let a good game down.
It’s pure ignorance that is causing publishers to abandon the platform, they release it on Steam with ridiculously intrusive and unneeded DRM, do horrible ports, and other such nonsense, and then scratch their heads at why they aren’t as successful as other PC devs.
Lost Planet 2, on STEAM, had a DISK CHECK DRM ISSUE, THIS SHIT SHOULDN’T BE HAPPENING, IT WAS NEVER A PROBLEM A DECADE AGO, WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE PIRATING FULLY FUNCTIONAL FREE COPIES OF YOUR PRODUCTS WHEN YOU CANT EVEN GET THIS RIGHT.
PUT YOUR GAMES ON STEAM, FORGET THE DAMN DRM, STEAM IS ENOUGH DRM, YOUR GAME WILL BE CRACKED, SOME PEOPLE WILL PIRATE IT, GET OVER IT, JUST TURN ON DAMAGE CONTROL, ENTICE PLAYERS TO BUY YOUR GAME BY SAYING "Hey guys in a huge wave of games with ridiculous DRM issues and online checks for single player games, we’re relasing a fully vanilla version of our game on Steam"
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD THROW THEIR HATS UP IN PURE JOY?
THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD BUY THE GAME WITH NO PRIOR INTEREST IN IT JUST TO SAY "THIS IS GOOD KEEP DOING IT"
COME ON.
/nerdrage