Id Software's Kevin Cloud: 'Piracy is killing PC games'

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Id Softwares co-owner and executive producer on Enemy Wars: Quake Wars, Kevin Cloud, was at the QuakeCon panel Q&A recently. During the question and answer session, he made the comment that pirates are "killing PC games".  Below is a portion of what else he had said from an interesting article posted over at 1UP. 

"It's the primary reason retailers are moving to the console," Cloud said, continuing on to say that ways to reduce piracy are in the forefront of every PC developer's mind, and citing World of Warcraft's subscription-based nature as an example of a possible solution to the problem.

Id CEO Todd Hollenshead went on to theorize that "about seventy percent of the landmass in the world where you can't sell games in a legitimate market, because pirates will beat you to the shelves with your own game."

Source: 1UP

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