If you guessed \u201cpiracy\u201d, you get a cupcake with a frosted jolly roger on top!<\/p>\n
Talking to PC Gamer<\/a> about the company’s incoming free-to-play PC shooter Ghost Recon Online, Ubisoft’s S\u00e9bastien Arnoult admitted that the game is a response to piracy.<\/p>\n “We are giving away most of the content for free because there\u2019s no barrier to entry,” he explained. “To the users that are traditionally playing the game by getting it through Pirate Bay, we said, \u2018Okay, go ahead guys. This is what you\u2019re asking for. We\u2019ve listened to you \u2013 we\u2019re giving you this experience. It\u2019s easy to download, there\u2019s no DRM that will pollute your experience.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n So that’s nice and everything, but wait, there’s more.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we started Ghost Recon Online we were thinking about Ghost Recon: Future Solider; having something ported in the classical way without any deep development, because we know that 95% of our consumers will pirate the game. So we said okay, we have to change our mind,” he added, tag-teaming Ubisoft’s I Am Alive devs<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to adapt, we have to embrace this instead of pushing it away. That\u2019s the main reflection behind Ghost Recon Online and the choice we\u2019ve made to go in this direction.\u201d<\/p>\n So, here’s the deal. Ubisoft knows “95%” of PC gamers are going to pirate anyway, so they cancel Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and make a free multiplayer game for them instead. Winning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Waaaaait for it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":27403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[957,955,931,733],"class_list":["post-27397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-future-soldier","tag-ghost-recon","tag-i-am-alive","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27399,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397\/revisions\/27399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}