“If you walked into [Epic's Offices] six years ago,” said Capps, “Epic was a PC company. We did one PS2 launch title, and everything else was PC. And now, people are saying ‘Why do you hate the PC? You’re a console-only company.’”More info at SixthAxis.
“And guess what?” he says, “It’s because the money’s on console.”
“We still do PC, we still love the PC, but we already saw the impact of piracy: it killed a lot of great independent developers and completely changed our business model.” Capps discusses the rise of free-to-play microtransaction based games, like Farmville, the “biggest game of all right now.”
Epic President complains piracy is killing PC gaming
Posted on Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 11:36 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Epic Games president Mike Capps explains their money's on console gaming because of rampant piracy on the PC platform: