Bulletstorm 2 Shelved - PC Pirates "A Big Problem"

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Speaking to Gamespot at PAX this weekend, Epic Games' president Mike Capps stated that a potential follow-up to Bulletstorm has been shelved, citing PC piracy as a big problem. The game apparently did not live up to EA's expectations.

"We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."

[Kyllian]

It wasn't a bad port, it was a horrid port
Ran bad, played bad(who needs jump when we can just tie it to the same button for 4 other actions?), fratboy humor, encrypted config files, etc

[Capt.Toilet]

Yeah typical PR bull**** that Capps is spewing.

The game was a failure because

-Way overpriced for the gameplay that it offered. The skillshots were a cover for extremely linear gameplay. Game shouldn't have been more than 20 bucks from the get go.

-Buggy graphics and shoddy 16:10 performance.

-Multiplayer that really isn't worth a ****.

-GFWL. It took me nearly an hour just to get the damn thing working.

The game would have been pirated if it was the best game that year, there is nothing going to stop it. I bet if you check out the 360 and ps3 piracy stats they will be just as high up there. Capps you are a faker.

[Manticore]

Originally Posted by Capt.Toilet

Yeah typical PR bull**** that Capps is spewing.

The game was a failure because

-Way overpriced for the gameplay that it offered. The skillshots were a cover for extremely linear gameplay. Game shouldn't have been more than 20 bucks from the get go.

-Buggy graphics and shoddy 16:10 performance.

-Multiplayer that really isn't worth a ****.

-GFWL. It took me nearly an hour just to get the damn thing working.

The game would have been pirated if it was the best game that year, there is nothing going to stop it. I bet if you check out the 360 and ps3 piracy stats they will be just as high up there. Capps you are a faker.

Yeah; let's blame piracy for everything although your game and your business model sucks.

At least you can then use that as a good excuse to lay off some staff (rather than because you games is totally average and didn't shift units).

Morons.

Piracy; the IT industry excuse for incompetency, failure and greed.

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a potential follow-up to Bulletstorm has been shelved, citing PC piracy as a big problem

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Epic Working On PC-Exclusive Title

Excuses, excuses.......... morons.

[Angel_Mapper]

a potential follow-up to Bulletstorm has been shelved, citing PC piracy as a big problem

Epic Working On PC-Exclusive Title

[N1ghtmare]

They had an opportunity to make a classic-style shooter, but it ended up being more space marines and linear lever cover.

Make a good game and that all won't matter. Piracy increases reputation (if its good) and thus increases sales. This is known.

[StalwartUK]

Why can't they just admit they made a bad game.

I'm surprised that they're even bothing with PC anymore. Every PR statment they've made over the last few years has been poison to anyone that plays on a PC.

[q_mi_4_3]

Originally Posted by StalwartUK

Why can't they just admit they made a bad game.

I'm surprised that they're even bothing with PC anymore. Every PR statment they've made over the last few years has been poison to anyone that plays on a PC.

Yeah, it seems like even Ubisoft is getting less anti-PC than Epic nowadays.

Originally Posted by Angel_Mapper

Maybe they are trying reverse psychology?!

[[NBK]Rattman]

Bottom line is it was a good game that didn't offer enough to warrent a 60 dollar price tag

[toniglandyl]

as said previously, $60 pricetag is waaaaay too high for something like that. If epic would have released it at 20 bucks with mod support, it would have been a whole other story.

PS : I have bulletstorm on steam. (thanks Flak !!!!)

[Vaginal Epiphany]

Bulletstorm 2 Shelved - PC Pirates "A Big Problem"

Didn't read the rest, burst out in laughter. I mean, how deluded can you get?

Not to gobble on Gabe's member or anything, but why can't Epic into common sense?
http://penny-arcade.com/report/edito...nd-whether-w/2

[RustyCopper]

"It wasn't the best PC port ever" darn right your are boy. A pirat is for me someone who has interest in your game so why don't you ask yourself how do we make him a customer? Hint: Its not GfWL
And piracy does not 1:1 harm.

[Vaskadar]

Originally Posted by RustyCopper

"It wasn't the best PC port ever" darn right your are boy. A pirat is for me someone who has interest in your game so why don't you ask yourself how do we make him a customer? Hint: Its not GfWL
And piracy does not 1:1 harm.

****ty gameplay and ****ty services do, however.

[RustyCopper]

Originally Posted by Vaskadar

****ty gameplay and ****ty services do, however.

I thought that the gunplay was good, despite that you could only carry 2 guns but where are my trial parkours where are my secret rooms where are my puzzles. They advertised this game as oldschool but it just wasn't.

[xMurphyx]

Shouldn't the bulk of the sales come from the console version though? If it was a success there, why not make a BS2 then?

OR did it not sell well overall because 60 bucks just isn't a fair price for the game? ****ty port or not (and it was ****ty): it just isn't worth 60 bucks.
I liked it a lot, thought the gameplay was fun and funny, the presentation was gorgeous, story was alright (Sarrano's swearing got on my nerves though), but I bought it recently during a steam sale and while admittedly 5 bucks was a steal, anything over 30 would have been a rip-off.

[Wail of Suicide]

Shame, a second game could've allowed them to learn from the mistakes of the first one. But it seems like they decided not to.

[TurdDrive]

People Pirate games that arnt worth buying. Make a game worth buying, Problem solved.

[Arnox]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

People Pirate games that arnt worth buying. Make a game worth buying, Problem solved.

i.e. Skyrim

In fact, now that I think about it, Skyrim proved the industry wrong on so many levels.

[Severin]

Same old Epic BullSh*t. I suppose Pc pirates are the reason the game failed on Playstation and Xbox too.

Give them six months and they will be gushing about how awesome the Pc is as a platform which will continue right up until the point when Unreal Gears of Tetris or what ever they are making for the pc in their spare time fails terribly.

Going from the demo, the reason Bulletstorm failed was because it was dull uninspired and not very good. Though of course admitting that would bruise a couple of massive ego's and that would never do. Much easier to fall back on the old standby it was all because of Pirates.

[moonflyer]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

People Pirate games that arnt worth buying. Make a game worth buying, Problem solved.

Make a game worth playing and promote it worth buying. Make potential players fans of the game and by supporting fans to support themselves. Fans are the bread and milk of a top-selling title and fans can affect other random buyer to consider buying one.
But for all that to happen, a game must be polished as much as possible. You know even a piece of turd can be polished like a diamond. What can't?