UBISOFT: 93-95% PC piracy rate means F2P is just as effective

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Originally posted by Harafnir
Computer games make more money than movies music and books combined... And that on only a 5% buy rate? Ooook. yeah. Those numbers have never been true, any year since the first computer games in the late 70s. It is pure spindoctoring to support a flawed statement. The piracy rate has never been smaller than it is today, mostly due to access to internet and the sophistication of the games making them harder and harder to hack. No, not because the "protection" is so advanced, it never is, but the because the game gets unstable when tampered with.  But then, UBISoft is known to have the worst DRMs in history making it almost impossible to even play the game when you have bought it (several times unable to even contact the internet so their little "safety" can tell their servers its a real storebought game) and your ability to play a UBISoft game is more up to luck than your morals... I guess they have to lie to protect their insanely bad decisions.

Wrong! It is not PC games that make so much money. The console market is much much bigger. Like someone on this thread said Skyrim sold around 1-2m copies on the PC.... The number for Xbox alone were like 3-4 times higher. Ubisoft are only talking about the PC platform. Their games sell like crazy on the consoles.

Console piracy while possible is much much more difficult to do and is rare. I heard it is not reliable as you have to continuously crack your console. Also any warranties become void. 

But yes, Ubisoft numbers are BS. There is no way 95% of people pirate games. Even if that was the case they have no way of knowing.