Crysis 2 Demo Released

Technology and Gaming
#141

I don’t know if you did this or not (so I don’t want to feel like I’m pointing fingers at you specifically), but anybody who downloaded the leaked version, in my opinion, can’t be considered a “loyal” fan.

Also, if you try to argue “But if I didn’t play the leak how would I know if it’s worth buying!”

loyal - unswerving in allegiance

By doubting the game and downloading the leak, you openly admit to not being a loyal fan.

In fact, the rumor is that the entire reason Crytek was making a console version isbecause of the piracy by their “loyal” fans.

So before you start throwing around the “betrayed their loyal fans”, think about what these “loyal fans” have been doing.

#142

I never claimed to be a loyal fan of Crytek. In fact I’m not even a big fan of Crysis, it’s a good game, I like it, I even bought the complete collection but I don’t adore it, like I adore Half-Life or Assassin’s Creed.

I did download the leak and played a little bit of what it allowed me to play amidst all the crashes and instability, but I saw the exact same extremely limited in-game graphical settings and general consolitis that I saw in the demo. In the end I thought it was not worth it and deleted the leak from my computer.

Crytek promised a proper PC version but apart from the advanced graphics, I’m not seeing a lot of PC properness so far.

Now let’s hope that the final version is everything they promised and more but I’m not putting my hope too high on this one.

#143

In the end there’s just too little time, these people are working their asses off to finish the game before the deadline. It should be no surprise that consoles have the higher priority for this is the platform that brings in most of the money.
I just hope the game delivers in gameplay and experience, I’m also looking forward to using the new devkit for the CryEngine 3.

Their last Crysis game (Crysis: Warhead) was very good in my opinion, roughly 6 hours of fun.

#144

This here î … Is the most rational post I’ve ever seen on this forum. If every single pc gamer thought like this guy we would have zero complaints with our games on the pc.

Doesn’t matter if you’d planned on buying it, you downloaded the leaked copy and now you’re seeding it. Piracy only fucks us in the end. Not the company.

#145

No, they’re doing it to make more money. Piracy is a general, unprovable excuse as to why developers switch to consoles. The real reason is that they want more money. The people complaining are from the over one million people who bought the game.

#146

Same difference. If people pirate pc games then of course they don’t make as much money as they believe their game to be worth. Therefore they want to make more! So they lead their development elsewhere. In Crysis 2’s case on the gaybox.

Unprovable!? Ask any dev, any! Heck just look for any article or podcast that interviewed Cevat Yerli. He’s made himself pretty clear on the pirating issue.

#147

If Crytek wants to be considered a serious company, then they should stop being butthurt about piracy, stop making up excuses for their decisions and continue delivering high quality products to their honest paying costumers. That’s all they should worry about, the honest paying costumer.

They don’t have to justify certain decisions like releasing Crysis 2 for consoles by blaming it on piracy. They just do it, no questions asked.

The piracy scene will always continue copying and delivering pirated games no matter what. They are not driven by any reason or motive other than to deliver pirated copies of commercial media for the people who don’t want to pay for it. They don’t pirate games out of spite, they just do it because they’ve been doing it since the inception of personal computers.

#148

Plus, there was that SecuROM DRM on the original game that everyone hated. I was about ready to pirate it just because of that. But I still paid for the game and it’s expansion. What do you think? Should people have the right to pirate a game they paid for just to get rid of the DRM?

#149

You own the game. Its hardly piracy.

#150

That “unprovable” works against you as well. You can’t prove that pirates DON’T hurt sales, and it’s obvious they DO to some fraction of the number of downloads. Exactly why I don’t blame any developers for switching over; statistically, it’s just better to be safe, and they don’t owe anything to PC gamers.

#151

I will agree that they don’t owe us anything. I’m just saying the losses are not the main reason, the reason is that they can make more money from consoles, because it is a larger audience. I just wish they’d admit that.

#152

I don’t think it’s that simple. Crytek has shown their opinions about piracy in the past, long before Crysis 2 was even on paper.
Also, piracy or not, Crytek would have gone to consoles anyway.
It’s a bigger market, they want more studios to use their engine, real-time is a big advantage for console development.

#153

Releasing on consoles was the logical next step.

Crytek loves to blame piracy as the reason for the low sales but honestly they also have themselves to blame, because there was a strong emphasis on how advanced its engine is.

I don’t remember seeing a lot of marketing about the story, characters, gameplay or multiplayer. Most of the stuff I saw was about how shiny their tech was. Along with the steep hardware requirements to run the game at a reasonable framerate, the image that came and still comes out of Crysis is that of a big technological demo.

I think that made potential buyers afraid of buying a game that probably wouldn’t run well on their systems. Not everyone is that willing to upgrade their computer just for a single game, specially a game that doesn’t seem to have very much of a plot or interesting characters.

Of course, this resulted in potential buyers pirating the game to see how it ran on their PCs.

#154

Exactly. By giving their game ridiculously high requirement, they effectively cut out a large portion of the market (although they did release a demo so you did know if you could run it). They can’t blame that on piracy, but do anyway.

#155

While it may have made it worse for sales, thats exactly what I liked about Crysis 1, and one of the reasons I’m still playing it today. From a technological standpoint, it still competes easily with more recent titles in graphics, physics, AI, etc., even nearly 4 years after release.

I kind of wish all games would be like that. The day its released you play it on the highest graphics level your machine will support, while still knowing that as you upgrade your computer in the years to come you’ll be able to enhance the game experience even further.

#156

The final game will only have the same graphic settings like the demo?! SHIIIIIIT!

#157

Source?

#158

It’s just a rumour.

#159

Why would you ever trust a rumor on these things?

#160

I think that may have been satire. I’m not sure.

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