No Super Street Fighter IV PC Thanks to Piracy
Series producer Yoshinori Ono doesn't have plans to bring Super Street Fighter IV to the PC.
This week, Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono said during an interview that there are no plans for a PC version of Super Street Fighter IV. Ono blamed piracy as the reason to avoid another PC release, claiming that Street Fighter IV on the PC was one of the top pirated games.
In a translation conducted by Andriasang, Ono put a positive spin on the piracy issue however, saying that the game saw a wide-spread release thanks to illegal distribution. Still, Capcom isn't about to hand out free games, and plans to protect its Street Fighter IP (franchise) by holding off on a PC version of the latest installment.
Still, there was some hint that the game could eventually hit the market. According to Ono, the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV already runs on Taito's DirectX-based Type X2 arcade board, so the PC version is essentially ready (99-percent). Ono indicated that Capcom would need to implement some kind of "super" copy protection solution to keep it out of pirate hands.
Currently the original Street Fighter IV for PC is available on Steam for $29.99. To help reduce piracy, Capcom may need to abandon physical media and stick with digital distributors such as Valve's platform. However Ono said that would be unfair to PC gamers who don't have access to those digital outlets or means to purchase content online.
dont worry, the arcade version will be released and hacked, and available for download via torrent
it's their loss in the end. stupid logic, stupid business practices.
i wonder when they'll realize there is no correlation between piracy and sales... NOBODY has proof that if someone is unable to pirate something, they will buy it... what retarded logic
What? like DNA fingerprinting or something?
dont worry, the arcade version will be released and hacked, and available for download via torrent
it's their loss in the end. stupid logic, stupid business practices.
i wonder when they'll realize there is no correlation between piracy and sales... NOBODY has proof that if someone is unable to pirate something, they will buy it... what retarded logic
Like this has ever stopped pirates?? Psh.......
therefore i dont really care
so true
if they have no choice they will buy it, so u don't understand this simple but "stupid" logic?
Pirates has killed a lot of good company, look at Sega and their Dreamcast, it was a really good console, it has really great games, but once some jackass found the "simple" way, put 3 lines of machine code to tell the system OS to just "skip this part, execute the files directly", Dreamcast's game sales totally disappeared and it ultimately killed the system. it was partly Sega's fault to let a big bug in the system software like this. but still in the end, it was killed by piracy.
so don't give me crap like there is no connection between piracy and sales.
Pirates has killed a lot of good company, look at Sega and their Dreamcast, it was a really good console, it has really great games, but once some jackass found the "simple" way, put 3 lines of machine code to tell the system OS to just "skip this part, execute the files directly", Dreamcast's game sales totally disappeared and it ultimately killed the system. it was partly Sega's fault to let a big bug in the system software like this. but still in the end, it was killed by piracy.
so don't give me crap like there is no connection between piracy and sales.
The Dreamcast and Saturn before it were more victims of Sony's underhand sales tactics than piracy.
Exactly, as soon as PS2's release date was announced, Dreamcast sales dropped like a rock in all regions. To add to that, the public and developers felt betrayed by Sega dumping support for the Saturn. Dreamcast was marked for death long before the GD-ROM boot loaders came out. In fact, they're the only thing that has kept it alive, companies are still releasing games for it.
Well i think it works like that anyway..
I think he was implying that pirates simply won't get the game if they have to pay.