Peter Moore on Piracy and the PC
Peter Moore the head of EA Sports has revealed that piracy is at the heart of the reasoning for cutting back on EA Sports titles, specifically Madden 09, being released on the PC. In an interview with Game Daily he had this to say.
Piracy’s a big issue on the PC. I can’t turn a blind eye to the fact that it’s very difficult for us…and we lose money making a game. At some point, I have an obligation not to bring out products that lose money.
Which is quite a crap excuse really, if EA used better methods of prevent Day 0 piracy then the money lost from pirates would be much much less. They just have to invest money in preventing the games getting leaked before release to cut down on a large number of the pirated games.
Finally I don’t think just churning out the same game with updated team sheets and a few minor improvements each year endears EA Sports titles well to PC gamers.
Piracy is not just a consumer problem, developers have to accept that their actions are causing and leading to people pirating games.
Tags: Madden 09, Pete Moore, Piracy