Piracy is a poor reason.

[SlothTech]

Epic Games in a nutshell - "Well, we produced a poor port with many launch day problems hampered by GFWL, but we blame piracy" Has it occurred to Epic that their game may have been pirated because it was a bad port and people didn't feel like paying $60 for it? Didn't help that the game was 6 hours long with no replayability and lowsy multiplayer either. Of course nobody said it was a bad game, though why give people an excuse. Treat your consumers like dirt and they will bite you in the ass.

[Milky Pirate]

A poor reason for lack of sales is this? I don't know why this quote has enraged you so long after Bulletstorm's release?

[SlothTech]

I gather you're not aware? Google Bulletstorm 2.
they fail to make the link between the two which is the critical factor, a bad port doens't always mean its a bad game. It was pirated primarily due it's lack of content. It is not an assumption to say that a better quality product will sell more copies nor that bad ports are used as an excuse

[Milky Pirate]

I didn't even realise it was current news that there wasn't going to be a sequel. I think you're right that piracy is a poor excuse, I was pretty underwhelmed with Bulletstorm due to a number of factors, not least the ending which was pretty disgraceful in terms of being a lazy, leave it open for a sequel option. In one of the articles I read there was the quote, "From a sales perspective it was good, but not amazing. I think EA was hoping we'd do better." which kiind of addresses things a bit more honestly! It wasn't a bad game though and it was a collaboration with People Can Fly so its hard to directly point any fingers at Epic.

[Bubbaxm2]

Bulletstorm was probably the worste console port ever. It was very buggy on pc at release and still to this day does not feel all that great on pc. I am not sure that anyone wanted to steal this game and if they did it was just to see if the rumors as to how bad it was were true!