Molyneux: PC Gaming Market “In Tatters”
- Scribbled on October 2nd, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Interviews, PC
Peter Molyneux has proclaimed that the PC gaming market is “in tatters”, stating:
If you look at the gamer market on PC, I’ll be quite honest with you, it’s in tatters. There aren’t that many releases on PC. There are some high points like Crysis and what Blizzard is doing, but other than that you are restricted to The Sims and World of Warcraft, they seem to be dominating the PC side.
He also weighed in on Spore and DRM in general, saying he hates DRM of any sort, but:
I would say while me as a player hates any restrictions, I can understand that publishers need to do something to give them the confidence to make games for the PC, to spend the huge amounts of money necessary to spend on development and to get their return. Anything that may give them more confidence on the PC means that ultimately we as gamers will come out better off because they will invest more in the game.
“I don’t think three (Spore PC authorisations per game) sounds that bad. I’d prefer it not to be there but if it is going to be there then I think three is OK, but I can understand people being very upset. Personally I hate any copy protection. I hate typing in that number. I loathe it as a gamer. It just makes me feel insulted. And I always lose the blasted manual anyway. So if we can get away from that password protected side which is a waste of time then that would be great.
There will be future installments at Videogamer.com of their Molyneux interview.
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