Is that actually the reason GOW never came to PC? I never heard that, but it was also before I had a gaming PC. So it’s not like I was actively invested in whether or not it was available.
The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips," said Cliff.
“Here’s the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.”
Is that actually the reason GOW never came to PC? I never heard that, but it was also before I had a gaming PC. So it’s not like I was actively invested in whether or not it was available.
Yep. Piracy.
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/epic-no-gears-of-war-2-pc/1/
He said that in 2006 so I guess it kinda made sense. It should have been re-released long before that though