EA Sport’s Peter Moore has come out criticizing the move by other publishers like Atari and Codemasters for launching lawsuits saying there are ”better ways”.
He’s says EA is determined to minimise piracy but there are better alternatives ”than chasing people for money.” DRM is beginning to play a larger role for EA titles.
”I’m not a huge fan of trying to punish your consumer,” Moore said, in an interview with Eurogamer. ”Albeit these people have clearly stolen intellectual property, I think there are better ways of resolving this within our power as developers and publishers.”
Whether you can class a software pirate as a ‘consumer’ is best left to expert minds in fifty-pay grades above this humble journalist.
”Yes, we’ve got to find solutions,” he continues. ”We absolutely should crack down on piracy. People put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their content and deserve to get paid for it. It’s absolutely wrong, it is stealing.”
”But at the same time I think there are better solutions than chasing people for money. I’m not sure what they are, other than to build game experiences that make it more difficult for there to be any value in pirating games.”
The music industry is the unfortunate but perfect example of what not to be doing says Moore. ”If we learned anything from the music business, they just don’t win any friends by suing their consumers,” he observed.
”Speaking personally, I think our industry does not want to fall foul of what happened with music.” As far as Moore knows EA won’t be following suit - see what I did there?
Click here to read the full interview between Peter Moore and Eurogamer.
