In this http://www.incgamers.com/News/29694/despite-the-[censored, a director for I Am Alive says a PC version is very unlikely, blaming piracy for poor sales:

"It’s hard because there’s so much piracy and so few people are paying for PC games that we have to precisely weigh it up against the cost of making it. Perhaps it will only take 12 guys three months to port the game to PC, it’s not a massive cost but it’s still a cost. If only 50,000 people buy the game then it’s not worth it."

Incidentally, Ubisoft's earlier PC titles have had some of the most notorious DRM garnering a lot of unsatisfied customers and bad press. In spite of this they announced this year that http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/30/ubisoft-says-always-on-drm-is-a-success-fans-are-confused/. Perhaps there was some truth to that, I don't know, but industry anolyst Michael Pachter later claimed that http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/07/opinion-ubisoft-piracy-and-the-death-of-reason/ with no corresponding lift in console equivalents.

The issue of PC game sales being too low certainly doesn't seem to be an issue for all developers, seeing as this year we've had several high profile titles released on PC and performing well. Perhaps the issue just might have something to do with how Ubisoft views the platform and treats their customers?

Ubisoft is possibly the worst PC developer of all time.

I'd call their DRM very successful. It made their games so unplayable that no one wants to steal them.

Ubisoft (and many other publishers) are so unwilling to accept responsibility for poor sales that they will blame anything. To back up that blame, they then cut off their own nose just to spite their own face.

Forum censoring messes with the first URL. Just replace [censored] with the term used for female dogs
http://www.incgamers.com/News/29694/despite-the-[censored]ing-piracy-means-i-am-alive-is-not-likely-on-pc

They slap the customer in the face what do they honestly expect them to do?

Bunch of [censored] retards. People refuse to buy their games because of their [censored] up DRM schemes and now they blame piracy. Bah.

http://tinyurl.com/d5htghv puts up a fair point. If you look at the costs of releasing the PC version versus the profits... Even if it doesn't sell very well, it's still going to be a good amount of profit.

Your link is broken.

Forum censors it over a word in the title.

http://tinyurl.com/d5htghv

What an idiot. :facepalm:

Ubisoft and EA are probably being targeted by DRM salesmen harder than other companies because they're older companies run by older people. Nothing else really makes sense.

Eh, I think Ubisoft went down the toilet when they ruined Splinter Cell with the PC/PS3/360 version of Double Agent.

Really? It's certainly made me not want to buy them.

Yeah, that's his point... (even more so, because no one wants to pirate them!)

Yep, I haven't played a Ubisoft game on the PC since they started their ridiculous DRM campaign, and I'm a pretty good example of a potential customer that actually buys a lot of PC games that they've lost. It's not surprising that their PC sales have tanked.

They're not just salesmen - they're snake oil salesmen. DRM sales folk are pushing a "Cure" they know simply does not work.

I believe there's a 5 letter word for this; FoRgive me I cannot recAll the word for sUch an unDesirable action.

They stole Rainbow Six from me.

Ubisoft couldn't pay me to play one of their games on PC. :shakehead:

Typical. "Our game isn't selling, and it's all everyone else's fault!"

Well if they actually made good games they wouldn't be having this problem. Lets blame it on everything and everyone except us!

I once tripped over my big toe and I could of swore it was your fault.

You're going to need to put in a password every 5 minutes to prevent this from happening in the future.

:D

"We don't want people who didn't buy the game to be able to play the game, so we're going to make it so nobody can play the game!"

Ubisoft's PC DRM in a nutshell.

always something to complain about