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If you've been waiting for a PC version of Super Street Fighter 4, it's not going to happen for a bit, if at all. According to Yoshinori Ono, the series producer, piracy rates were so high on Street Fighter 4, the PC version won't be released until some robust piracy protection device can be found. So blame the software pirates for this one.
To add insult to injury, according to Ono, the game is technically "99 percent ready" to be released on PC as it is, but Ono and company can't afford to essentially give away the new game, so no PC release is forthcoming. There won't be a Steam-only release either, as Ono feels it would be unfair to people unable to play the game through Steam.
Pirates are incredibly resourceful and clever when it comes to defeating copy-protection schemes, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a solution to be found, but still, Street Fighter 4 was a very strong selling title in spite of its reportedly widespread pirating, so I wonder why a PC release wouldn't make sense, even given the actions of miscreant PC pirates.
Source: Andria Sang
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munegazer
Sales for the PC version of the game were probably low so they used piracy as an excuse and refuse to release the SSFIV version of the game until PC gamers give in and buy the orig version then go ahead and pop the release when we least expect it. Just another marketing scheme.
Ceielo
The DRM they find will probably be as invasive as SecuRom 7 and will probably just make people not buy it due to that. I agree that stealing is wrong, but rendering parts of your PC useless just to save one game is ridiculous. If it's as bad as that, then I seriously hope it goes the way of Spore where it's pirated BECAUSE of SecuRom.
Just remember what happened with Spore / Mass Effect / BioShock.
jethromartino
yeah. this is so stupid. insanely retarded. it's like "i'll make a game today. but i won't release it until every pirate dies" there will always be a hacker who could crack even tightest security. ono's just crating a tactic that the ssf4 would still sell after some months, or years. just like what they did to tekken.
sephirothcloud
Let me be the first to say How stupid this is,especially how the PC version is 99% Ready. Even when games are Pirated on PC games the Majority do it so they don't have DRM that could potentionaly(prob spelt it wrong and spell check is acting weird right now)harm their computer, Also games sell well despite Piracy look at Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep and the original Dissidia Final Fantasy as examples of Piracy not affecting sales at all. And look at the new Pokemon Game Black and White despite Piracy its skyrocketing in sales in Japan,furthermore I've been finding trends now the companies may possibly be leaking games now.
I've read something to were on the original Rom of B&W was made to block leveling up your Pokemon
The Secret Boss in KHBBS Mysterious Figure abused his Time Rewind skill in the leaked version from what I saw on Vids on youtube,yet in the UMD he barely uses his Time Rewind skill.
but regardless PIRACY DOESN'T BUTCHER GAME SALES!
Thogin
that is a very strange..... reasoning....
So they said that piracy is so high they don't release a game on the PC but they already made it for the PC.... and now they are trying to find protection, but HD said he knows is going to be cracked.... and he doesn't want to steam it... because is unfair??
How are you going to make money by not selling the game??? I am so confused by that reasoning I will consider it a mental head shot.
bwillb
Let me make sure I get this.
The game is practically ready. They can't afford to "just give the game away" (actually still gaining profit but not on every copy played), so they are instead going to completely hold off on selling it, making ZERO profit, until they find an effective copy protection? Is the company REALLY that stupid?
stamatt45
Who's worried bout pirated when here be dragons....
stamatt45
Who's worried bout pirated when here be dragons....
Atavax
i don't believe the piracy excuse. them saying they are not releasing it on the pc because of piracy is like when Infinity Ward said they were taking out dedicated for the players. it just makes zero sense. even if 99% of the copies in the world of a pc version of the game was pirated, they would still make more money then not releasing it. I am convinced they are hiding the real reason.
Apsalus07
99% finished for PC, but won't be released for PC? That's like rebuilding the world trade center, but giving up on the last floor and scrapping the whole project. Now we know Capcom is run by idiots.
SPRHR0
yeah i got this game and its good.. not great. if they want to end piracy they will have to offer this on a cload computing system.. use the pc as a input and display and it can do the processing on a central system.. I think all media will be done this way.. videos and audio can still be recorded but games I think can be pirate proof. but games will have to have a real fast internet connection
hardwire
is there any way that we can tell these developers they arnt allowed to code there games on a pc/mac/unix
they want to block us out i say they should be blocked out
that probly didnt make much sence i know but i am just discusted in the aditudes of the video game devs of this day. blame piracy for your falure of a game
its ok i dont want a pos such as sf on my pc i would much rather get namco/bandi to port over some tekken
oh oh oh this pisses me off even more now becuse it makes me realize there probly wont be any chance that we are going to get tekken vs sf on pc now
Yokijirou
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Hold the phone.
I have to pee.
On this ridiculous notion that Street Fighter 4 was HEAVILY PIRATED. First off, to play it online, you had to have a legit CD KEY which you can only get by purchasing it. Second, it was on Steam and therefore I could purchase the game knowing that I would be able to re-download it if ever needed without worrying about some shoddy DRM restrictions. Third, it was rather cheap on the PC. Fourth, it looked much MUCH better than the console counterparts. Fifth, this is just an excuse to not produce a product for us PC Users.
I'm wildly surprised that Capcom is releasing Dead Rising 2 on the PC via ONLY Steam which is a great idea.
39.99! 20 bucks cheaper then the PSTriple or Xbox! Do this for more PC Titles game companies!
Nub Salad
That doesn't make sense at all. People steal things all the time. Would it make sense to stop selling stuff because people might steal it? Is this some sort of attempt to make pirates to feel bad?
Uldum
i find this funny especially since all my friends had super street fighter 4 downloaded and playable on their xbox360 days before it was even released
entropy90
So you acknowledge that Steam is an effective counter against piracy but refuse to release it on Steam because of the people who don't have an internet connection? That's screwed up.
weejifiend
Wouldn't a Steam-only version be more fair than no version at all?
Raisinbman
SSFIV isn't looking good for the PC. It MIGHT be coming though. Alot of peeps think SSFIV: AE will get an exclusivity period, then we'll get DLC update for SSFIV: AE and possibly PC edition.
theangrygimp
This is nothing but a marketing ploy. They want the people who would of waited for a PC release to just go ahead and buy on now, and not wait for when they do release it on PC (after sales have dropped on the more expensive console versions). To say that they won't release it on Steam cause it wouldn't be fare is just complete crap. So how is not releasing on PC, at all, fare to all those people who don't have either console? Steam isn't a good Anti-Piracy system? You can't sale a used copy of a steam game (and maybe not disc ones either, soon)! I know piracy is bad in some regions, but even if only 20% of sales were pirated, that is still 80% that paid with no loss of inventory or labor. I bought SF4 through steam, and wish I could of returned it cause of how awful it was compared to the last couple of SF games in gameplay and flow. The last one should of been called Super Street Fighter 2 3D edition.... There were more combo variations in the original 2D ones!!! I feel like capcom is going down hill with each game they release (in terms of gameplay). They have a great looking game engine, but they have not been using it for anything but the same old tired ideas with even less depth than before.
I used to be a huge capcom fan years back, its sad to see them turn into such a generic game designer today with nothing to keep them going but mediocre updates to classics. Watch, soon as sales die down for consoles, it will be on steam to make that extra money... I wish I could return my purchase of SF4 for steam and just enjoy the last great Street Fighter to be released - SF3 3RD Strike.
bunnyglomp
i agree on the exaggerated part.
i go to quakecon and im a member of plenty of private and public torrent sites.
this game wasnt downloaded that much at quakecon or via torrents.
what they arnt saying, and seeing as im a huge pc fan (and will take all the AAA titles we can get) was that in all honestly, the sf4 game wasnt that great on pc. not saying it wasnt a good game, but pc friendly it was not.
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