No Prince of Persia DLC For PC

[Keane Ng]

No Prince of Persia DLC For PC

Own the PC version of Prince of Persia and want to know the "real" ending of the game? You're going to have buy it on console, because Ubisoft won't be bringing the "Epilogue" DLC, which continues the game's story, to the PC.

Last week Ubisoft announced the "Epilogue [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89037-Prince-of-Persia-Gets-Epilogue-DLC]" DLC for last year's Prince of Persia, which adds a host of interesting new stuff to the game like new environments, enemies and moves, but most significantly continues the game's story after its somewhat controversial conclusion and finds the Prince and Elika getting into all sorts of new misadventures. "Epilogue" is due for release on February 26 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but it won't be coming to the PC, Ubisoft revealed today, citing "business reasons" for its absence.

It's not that the demand isn't there. Some Prince of Persia fans over on the Ubisoft forums conducted a posted [http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/861108132/m/4211080927/showpollresults/Y]. "Unfortunately for business reasons we won't be seeing any PoP DLC appear. Sorry guys!"

Ubisoft can stuff its sorries in a sack, say some fans. "Well Ubisoft, are you planning to release a second PoP within the new storyline, setting and with the new characters?" poster SaggitariusArc asked. "Go ahead, but don't expect many of us loyal buyers to make the same mistake twice. You just made it clear that PC players are kinda second class citizens."

Could this be Ubisoft's reaction to their "DRM-Free Prince of Persia" experiment [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88115-Ubisoft-Challenges-Gamers-With-DRM-Free-Prince-Of-Persia]? Last year Ubisoft decided to do away with DRM for Prince of Persia to see just how honest people really were about their pirating habits. "A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we'll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine," Easton remarked back then. Presuming their experiment failed, it would give them plenty of reason to withhold the DLC for PC since, for all they can see, it would just get pirated too. To me it's always sounded like Ubisoft always knew their "no DRM" experiment was doomed to failure, so if piracy really is the reason for this, weren't Ubisoft just building an excuse way ahead of time to not release the DLC on PC?


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[The_root_of_all_evil]

It's not like they need an excuse to be dicks.

 

[jamesworkshop]

easy answer is to read a story FAQ on Gamefaqs

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Ok. The next time a game developing studio will say such a BLOODY STUPID thing that is the equivalent of a kick in the balls followed by a diarrhea dump in your face, I swear to GOD I will set their studios on fire! Oh and I am STILL not buying a console you jerks (talking to the game devs) My apologies, but they really got to me. This is so damn unfair

 

[xitel]

And here I thought Ubisoft had started doing well with the anti-DRM...

 

[Abedeus]

Yes, I'm sure you will make people not pirate games by punishing them for buying a PC version instead of a console one.

If someone doesn't understand me, change your sarcasm meter.

 

[Solo508]

You have to admit that piracy is at fault here, but simply refusing to release this sort of thing is just rediculous on Ubisoft's part. If they were going to do this they simply shouldn't have released PoP on the PC in the first place. This is the last time I buy a Ubisoft game. The forum poster put it perfectly; PC gamers are second class to Ubisoft.

 

[paketep]

You have to admit that piracy is at fault here

Is it?. All the fault I can see here comes from Ubi.

They are one of the worst publishers, especially when it comes to PC. Releasing a decent port (for once!) of PoP without DRM built them some good will to atone for previous errors.

This move will make them lose all of it. "Financial reasons" my ass. They just want to make as much money as possible in the consoles with the final 5% they cut from the game so they could sell it later. Perhaps we'll see this DLC some months from now, but I certainly won't be there to pay for it. Or for any other game from Ubi. I'm tired of them and their lack of respect for PC gamers.

 

[Keane Ng]

There is a letter writing campaign that some of the people on that forum are starting up. I doubt it'll do any good, but if you want to get involved I'm sure there's an easy way to do so over at yonder forums.

 

[Aperama]

You have to admit that piracy is at fault here, but simply refusing to release this sort of thing is just rediculous on Ubisoft's part. If they were going to do this they simply shouldn't have released PoP on the PC in the first place. This is the last time I buy a Ubisoft game. The forum poster put it perfectly; PC gamers are second class to Ubisoft.

I don't personally feel piracy is at fault. Piracy's the excuse they're using to denote the downturn in PC-based gaming. The downturn in PC based gaming comes with the more 'casual' gamer - you've gotta realise what it's easier to plug in an XBOX than it is to get a PC up and running with every possible peripheral, and then installing everything.. Well, if you're a technophobe like some, it's difficult.

However. More importantly than any of that. I have not played a single game on the PC by Ubisoft that has been enjoyable. They repeatedly pull out direct rips of their console-based games, usually with poor control schemes, buggy interfaces and terrible memory leaks (I, for instance, got Assassin's Creed with my video card. The video card itself has performed perfectly. Assassin's Creed? I think I got to Damascus before it started throwing out inconsolable, irreversable errors! YAY!) Prince of Persia: Warrior Within never uninstalled (the uninstaller was broken). Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was still trying to tell me to push buttons according to where they would have been on the PS, as memory serves, and had significant memory leaks. Ubisoft doesn't do PC. Because they're flippin' arrogant.

 

[Baneat]

For the 100 people that actually bought that game on PC (People use DRM as an excuse) 94 of em said yes. No wonder they won't bother making DLC for how poorly it sold on PC.

 

[_Nocturnal]

I love this game. I bought it and adored every aspect of it. It became something I'll treasure my whole life. And now this.
I'm sorry, there's no holding back here: Fuck you Ubisoft. Fuck your "business reasons", I'm making this personal. Do this and you lose a customer for good. On ANY platform. Don't do it, but do some other idiotic mistake like that in the future, for example not putting the sequels to the game on PC or porting them badly and you lose a customer for good. On ANY platform. Fuck you if that's not a good enough reason. It would appear that you do not deserve any customers at all, morons.
Pity for the guys that made the game. They deserve a better publisher.

 

[Lt. Sera]

So their experiment with no DRM failed, which was obvious from the get go as the game was released later then on the consoles. My housemate finished the game 'long' before it came out on the PC. Why wait a few months to buy a game you can already buy for the console. PoP is no FPS or RTS, so controls are little of a factor.
Their experiment failed because they didn't conduct it right and now they use a skewed test with a faulty result as a base on which to deny PC gamers their newer content.

Ubisoft have always been a lesser publisher, but this really takes the cake. Up yours and don't expect me to buy any of your games on any platform ever again.

 

[Keivz]

It's funny how many excuses are made by consumers and pirates alike. I bought the game (which came out only a week after the console versions, btw) and I'm not surprised by this at all. Blame piracy, blame the struggling PC market, blame pcgame incompatibilities (personally, I played every prince of persia incarnation on the pc and assassin's creed with have had no problems whatsoever, but as has always been the case with pc games--ymmv), blame whomever. Fact is, business is business. You can't blame a developer for not investing in something that they're sure to lose money on. Should they do it out of the kindness of their hearts then?
Give me a break.

 

[Abedeus]

For the 100 people that actually bought that game on PC (People use DRM as an excuse) 94 of em said yes. No wonder they won't bother making DLC for how poorly it sold on PC.

People having PCs are used to having LONG GAMES, not ones you can finish in 5-6 hours and sell it, because it has no replayability (because why repeat PoP? You know how it's going to end anyway, all fights are almost same, so are levels...) and no multiplayer. Or even a co-op!

Because it's not like you can rent games for PC, at least not in Poland.

Besides, if you don't make a DLC now, why people should buy your products? On ANY console? You treat your customers like shit, punishing them for buying a game on PC.

Piracy is bad. But there is one cure to it - make games with multiplayer. A GOOD ONE, not a Timeshift/Mercenaries 2 one, where it's hardly worth playing.

Guess why some games sell better than others? Because there is a reason to play them again. Or at least there is a multiplayer, like Gears of War, all MMOs, most of the FPSes on PC (because if you have a pirated version, you say good bye to multiplayer - what if online game is the best part of it?) and some RTS games.

Oh, and if you do the same shit with Beyond Good and Evil, I say - fuck you, I'm pirating the game. Who cares if it'll be an improvement to a GODLY game, you are a bunch of *beep beep* for screwing us over.

edit: Damn misspell.

 

[Lt. Sera]

You can't blame a developer for not investing in something that they're sure to lose money on. Should they do it out of the kindness of their hearts then?
Give me a break.

I'd like to see the numbers, but since Ubisoft just ports games, it'll take little to no effort to make it available for the PC and the only real costs would be the server from which people download the DLC. So if they get like 50 downloads, they'd break even (since they already have the servers too).
This is just a dick move, nothing else.

 

[KurisuBorosen]

I love this game. I bought it and adored every aspect of it. It became something I'll treasure my whole life. And now this.
I'm sorry, there's no holding back here: Fuck you Ubisoft. Fuck your "business reasons", I'm making this personal. Do this and you lose a customer for good. On ANY platform. Don't do it, but do some other idiotic mistake like that in the future, for example not putting the sequels to the game on PC or porting them badly and you lose a customer for good. On ANY platform. Fuck you if that's not a good enough reason. It would appear that you do not deserve any customers at all, morons.
Pity for the guys that made the game. They deserve a better publisher.

Amen brother. I loved the game and I have to agree. Fuck Ubisoft you bunch of spineless dicks (at least the marketing department (the game designers are actually half decent)).

 

[MiloP]

"For business reasons, that is, if we make any more money our wallet won't even fit in our pockets!"

Silly, silly, silly.

 

[Erana]

Ugh... The plethora of fallacies of logic!
*head explodes*