Why don't they use Steam? EA is a bastard that's why.

Pirates make up 1% of the gaming community, especially those interested in products like Crysis. They made a game that most people couldn't play on PC and now they're crying about potential sales. 86 thousand sounds about right for the amount of people that had the power to play this game. There's a reason why WoW is a billion dollar game, it's insanely accessible to even laptops from 2004.

If they port console games to PC I'm quitting Crytek.

PC is the canvas which the developer artist has limitless freedom to create, once you go console you're caged.

Lee shut the hell up! 1%? Seriously!? With the huge amount of pirated games out there, god that is just stupid.

Once you go console, you make more money, because it is really hard to pirated a Console game. Also, it also means they can push technology further, and create new tech to make all games better. So how about you just shut the hell up, A'right?

Also, the only reason so few could play this game, was the technique they used to create the super fast load times for that open world. They loaded ALL THE DATA, into the RAM. Thus needing massive amounts of it to store that data. Other wise, with a properly configured machine, you could run Crysis just fine. So, seriously, how about dropping the PC fanboy suite and look at the bigger picture.

Yeah, 860 pirates is quite a bit off...

There have been almost 7,000 snatches off of Blackcats alone, that's not even including all the usenet and other torrent downloads...

We're talking at least 25% I'd say.

I just hope they don't limit the PC releases because they are also catering to console owners.

Piracy is a big problem for PC gaming, no doubt about that.

The way forward isn't to stop making PC games, but instead, to change the way the games are made, or to make games that people want to buy. Sins of a Solar Empire showed that you can have success, even without using any DRM at all.

Micro-transaction based online games are also looking like the way of the future.

The big PC game makers need to change their business models if they want to increase profits.

"Bill Gates03

Yeah, 860 pirates is quite a bit off..."

1% of all gamers is what he meant...

Oh, sorry I misread that.

So when you look at the entire gaming community, what percent do you REALLY thing are pirates?

ARR!

Piracy certianly is a problem, but developers need to get their heads out of the sand and realize it isn't the only one. The PC has been mistreated for years, often recieving durastically inferior versions of games and having exclusives important to the platform taken away by big corporations (the company starts with an M, took away a game called H, made a platform that survived because of it). Coupled with more expensive hardware, more often buggy and bloated games (Crysis? Bloated? naah!!) and a continued lack of interesting games, plus the small minded developers not developing for low end hardware and adding important features like two player or split screen (Yes, people have controllers in their PC), PLUS titles which are far too niche being the platform's "selling points", what couldn't be wrong? And are developers capable of seeing those problems and assessing them, or are they going to continue to blame piracy whenever they *bleep* up?

@ MDH

The issue with developing for low end hardware, is that then PC users feel cheated. As they get an inferior sounding, looking, and playing variant of the Console game.

Then you outrage the PC community, and eventually, drive the PC into extinction.

Far Cry was awesome, Crysis just sucks. I think Crytek should just quit whining and start focusing on some better games. Innovation is what sells in the PC genre.

Why does it suck? it looks pretty awesome, really.

Crysis has really good graphics etc etc, but for me it just seems like a bland FPS to tell the truth. Not that I don't have a lot of fun playing, it's just not the best.

I haven't played Far Cry sadly (I want to) but maybe it just has better gameplay elements.

From what a variety of reviewers said ( from gameinformer to pc gamer to other reviewers not in our country) crysis is a cool game in single player. Well, most reviewers thought floating in space toward the end of the game was disorienting, other than pc gamer who defended the usage of this kind of gameplay.

As for the online, it was not bad, but they certainly could of done better.

From what a variety of reviewers said ( from gameinformer to pc gamer to other reviewers not in our country) crysis is a cool game in single player. Well, most reviewers thought floating in space toward the end of the game was disorienting, other than pc gamer who defended the usage of this kind of gameplay.

As for the online, it was not bad, but they certainly could of done better.

Stupid browser! sorry I double posted.

I thought Crysis was pretty good. The multiplayer was a lot of fun (if it wasn't for cheaters.) Ya the space ship bits were annoying. Biggest flaw with the game IMHO was the machine required to run it smoothly.

jt gangsta, more like triple posted

Well, does 25-30 fps count as smooth with everything on high?

It barely lags, unless all of a sudden a crapload of stuff goes on.

lol. That sounds like me. With everything on medium/low on BF2.