Funcom drops 'offline' PC games

15-03-2007, 12:42 PM

Funcom, the developer behind the adventure game classics The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, have announced their decision to stop producing traditional, offline PC games. Funcom, who previously have mentioned MMOs and adventure games as their primary focus, blames piracy as the reason for the decision. According to Funcom's Trond Arne Aas, there had been over 200,000 illegal downloads of Dreamfall, even before its release last year. Also, he estimates that for each PC game that is sold, between 3 and 10 times as many is stolen, thus resulting in Funcom's decision to stop producing offline PC games. No info was given on the recently announced Dreamfall chapters, although given the fact that the project has already gotten financial assistance from the Norwegian Film Fund, we have all reason to believe that they are still on schedule. However, this could result in PC gamers needing to have an active internet connection in order to verify the game's authenticity.

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Darthvader · 15-03-2007, 04:54 PM

Yup This is what is happening . Bcoz of piracy more and more developers are shifting forcus to consoles.
Now to save pc games every game has to be activated online and then agn everyone does not have internet connexions so No concentration on quality pc development, just lame ports
This is really sad

s18000rpm · 15-03-2007, 05:59 PM

then in about a year or Two, Console games will also become very easy to "Crack & Play", coz more & more Cracker Dudes will concentrate on Console Game Cracking

,..... then Game Developers will again switch back to PC

, who knows by that time Bill Gates's dudes or Intel/AMD dudes might INVENT some hardcored Software or Hardware level Anti-Piracy sh1t

If more & more Game developers go for Console ONLY games, then what'll happen to Graphic Card Manufacturers

, AMD just bought ATi

, these Gfx. Makers cant rely on JUST Consoles

for money, all want Mo' Money (dont we

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