Ubisoft devising new tools to combat piracy on PC
According to statements made by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in a recent investor call (via Shacknews), the publisher is looking to implement new anti-piracy tools within its PC releases. Though the platform isn't the only one beset by shady software shenanigans -- Guillemot highlighted the existence of piracy on every console, including DS, PS3 and Xbox 360 -- it is drawing the most internal ire.
"All together, on home consoles, the piracy is low," he said. "But on the PC, the piracy increases quite a lot, and we are working on tools that will allow us to actually decrease tremendously the piracy on PC, starting next year in fact and probably one game at the end of this year." Will they also mark a tremendous decrease in consumer friendliness? We'll have to wait for that one game at the end of this year, and with Splinter Cell: Conviction out of the picture, Ubisoft's new measures will most likely debut in November with Assassin's Creed 2.
Remember what that game's creative director, Patrice Désilets, told us about the 35 million people who played Assassin's Creed 1? "Not all the people bought it. They played it on PC."
