GAMING NEWSCrytek Says People Want Crysis But Wont Pay For ItPosted on Monday, April 30 @ 09:41:53 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack
![]() Piracy is one of the most worrying trends of this generation, and no developer has been hit worse than Crytek. So what do they think about the thing that has hurt them most? Rasmus Højengaard, senior creative director at Crytek, was asked by PCGamer what he thinks of the piracy of Crytek's flagship series, Crysis. He replied: Crysis was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times within its first week of release, and Crysis 2 was by far and away the most pirated game of last year. Quite a few of those downloads came as the result of people wanting to try the hardware-vampire on their rig to make sure the game would even run, but even more of them came from people who saw the $60 price tag and had no desire to pay that much. In the case of Crysis 2 a large portion of the PC gaming community felt that the PC version was just a cheap port, and nobody likes to buy a cheap port. As such, the majority of the game's multi-million sales came from the console version. Solution: drop the price tag on the PC to $50 and release a demo. It's just that easy. Thank me later, Crytek. More from the Game Revolution Network Comments
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Bras
Joined: Jul 2008
I am willing to pay for a game that is not expensive ($40-$50), where the community can have servers running their own kind of game sessions even if they are in Bratislava, where you can meet the minimum requirements without having to steal NASA hardware, and where there are teams that compete in championships I care about.
In other words, I want Counter-Strike.
213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007
OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011
drathbone
Joined: May 2011
I was ALL about SWTOR and D3, luckily I got to try them both for free and without wasting my money before buying them because my rig wasn't worthy of running them as good as I wanted.
OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011
TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006
quiknkold
Joined: May 2011
I've never wanted your games. I've never cared for them. Your games are like every other shooter game in this day and age, Pretty, but not alot of substance. Get over yourselves. Even Halo dosent Preen themselves as much as you guys do.
Sincerily, Not a Paying Customer
Ranim
Joined: Nov 2005