Studio founder Christofer Sundberg says ”smart solutions” should be found, giving gamers ”freedom needed to play” and to secure a return.
The developer boss also says teams shouldn’t whack out a PC port of a mostly console game, because those two camps smell the difference a mile away.
”Avoiding a platform because of piracy rather than attacking the problem is just giving in,” Sundberg told VG247 in an interview, “so I’d recommend finding smart solutions to allow players the freedom needed to play our games full out and the developers and publishers getting their return of investment.” Give that man a pricey swim-suit model!
“If the game is primarily a console game, we always recommend the publisher to avoid a PC SKU as PC gamers are PC gamers and console gamers are console gamers.” Point blank obvious, but tragically overlooked by many publishing big boys.
Just Cause 2 releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC tomorrow in Europe. I personally have some beef with their choice of Steam for ‘DRM’, because I received my copy today but can’t install it because it hasn’t ‘released yet’ so it tells me. Yes I feel bitter.
Sundberg has also confirmed that Just Cause 2 will be getting some DLC down the road, but the studio co-founder wouldn’t dish the specifics. Check out our PC review.
