Stanislas Mettra, the Creative Director behind I am Alive has said some thing, and then some other things. Originally he sated that I am Alive will probably not be coming to the PC. The reason? Pirates.
“It’s hard because there’s so much piracy and so few people are paying for PC games that we have to precisely weigh it up against the cost of making it. Perhaps it will only take 12 guys three months to port the game to PC, it’s not a massive cost but it’s still a cost. If only 50,000 people buy the game then it’s not worth it.”
In regards to the PC community’s outcry Stanislas stated: “We’ve heard loud and clear that PC gamers are bitching about there being no version for them, but are these people just making noise just because there’s no version or because it’s a game they actually want to play? Would they buy it if we made it?”
The next day an e-mail clarification was sent to incgamers.com in an attempt to redact his previous statements.
“What I meant is that the pc version did not happen yet. But we are still working to see the feasibility of it, which is not necessarily simple. I gave some examples to illustrate the problematic, but obviously it is not in my hands and not my part to talk about this.”
“Honestly, which game maker would not love his game to be playable on as many platforms and by as many people as possible?”
So at this point who really knows if I am Alive will be coming to the PC. All this wishy-washyness does bring up a growing problem among PC developers, a way to stop pirating. The growing opinion online is that if you make great games people will not pirate them. That would mean that only bad games are getting pirated which does not make much sense to me. I do not know much about pirating games but from what I do know it is a very risky and somewhat difficult experience. It would seem to me that stealing a bad game would not be worth the trouble and that I would only steal a great game that would be worth the hassle. Case in point: Google “Skyrim Pirate.” People are stealing games regardless of quality and especially so on the PC.
DRM sucks for everyone and so does pirating games so why don’t we both just stop.
Source-[incgamers.com]
This is one of those games that having news coverage will drive people mad. They keep changing the platforms! Grrr…
Why worry about the game being pirated if the game might not even be worth a purchase?
Yar!!