Ubisoft has released the pc version of shooter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is deleted and in place thereof the free 2 play pc shooter Ghost Recon Online. The French publisher wants to with such f2p games, the piracy of pc games combat.
The English PC Gamer spoke with Sébastien Arnoult, who at Ubisoft as a producer, working on Ghost Recon Online. That made it clear that the pc-version of another game in the Ubisoft booth is deleted. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier would not originally only released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and handhelds, but also for the pc. The pc version however, is no longer in development according to Arnoult and that has, according to him, to do with piracy. “On the pc, we adapt to meet the demand,” says Arnoult. “I want the products for the pc does not compare with that for the Xbox, because that platform has a model that clearly is meant to be 60 dollars of super-Hollywood content.”
When pc-games select Ubisoft a different approach by focusing on free playable games. That should respond to piracy of pc games and the ongoing discussion about the use of drm in the games of the publisher. “We provide most of the content is available free of charge, because there is no obstacle to participate. Against the users that are traditionally seen their games through Pirate Bay, we say, ok, go ahead. This is what you wanted, we have to be listened to, we give you this experience. It is easy to download and there is no drm to you experience to interfere with it.”
The decision to have the policy to adapt for the development of Future Soldier are taken. “When we started Ghost Recon Online we were thinking that we Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on the classical way to the pc would be ported without too much development time to stop, knowing that 95 percent of our customers get the game illegally will reap. So we decided that our approach must change.”
Earlier this week it was also announced that Ubisoft, the pc version of I Am Alive has been deleted due to piracy on the pc platform. Stanislas function of our, who, as creative director is working on I Am Alive, made it clear that pc gamers still bitchen about the lack of a pc version of the game, but asked aloud whether the same people the game would buy that on the pc it would appear. Function of our has now responded to his own statements and want to clarify that he is indeed like a pc version of the game would want to make. It is also not excluded, though he calls the market for pc games ‘problem.’