@ harcar
Piracy is NOT an issue.
(at least not an issue to justify scrapping most of their sports titles on the PC)
EA Sports games don't get pirated more than every other PC game. I won't even begin to start listing all the good examples of successful PC games titles (most of them were heavily pirated as well).
So what makes the EA Sports situation special, apart from the fact that their president, Peter Moore, is a console fan-boy?
The reason we have seen what we have seen recently with scrapped EA Sports titles and relatively poor quality Fifa 09, is that EA Sports operate a kind of: 'shoot themselves in the foot' mentality.
They produce inferior lalalala for the PC year in and year out, and yet they expect healthy sales. Then when the sales figures dwindle to a certain low point, they make the inevitable decision to scrap the game.
Then they explain that it's because certain low powered PC's won't be able to play next gen. They want to maximize sales by including low spec "non-gaming" PCs that shouldn't really be playing modern 3D games in the first place.
But the real dilemma is that the sales will continue to drop. I wonder why?
Let me tell you why. It's because the PC version is not 'next gen'.
If they want sales, then they need to produce something worth buying and stop insulting PC gamers by expecting us to downgrade to lower powered consoles in order to play the better versions of their games.
The world is bigger than EA Sports.
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