Epic Games president Mike Capps was speaking to UK Magazine Edge this month about all things Epic – Unreal 4, Gears of War and Bulletstorm. As reported by The Sixth Axis, Capps also shared his views on the dire impact piracy is having on the PC segment of the industry.
“If you walked into [Epic’s Offices] six years ago, 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.’ 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 mentioned social networking games, some of which use a micro-transaction model to sustain themselves. Farmville was cited as an example: “So, maybe Facebook will save PC gaming, but it’s not going to look like Gears of War.”
It is a scary prospect for PC gamers when an industry veteran, leading a company at the core of so many mainstream games, appears to have virtually written off the PC as a viable platform.
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