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Crytek Says People Want Crysis But Wont Pay For It

Posted 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:

It’s unfortunate that you don’t win any awards for most downloaded game.

Certainly people apparently really want to play our games, they just don’t wanna buy them.

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.
Related Games:   Crysis, Crysis 2
Tags:   crytek, Crysis


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  • Bras
    Bras

    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 11:00 am
    I'm going to tell the world the truth: I don't want Crysis.

    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
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 11:15 am
    The real answer (as I said before) is we don't want your consolized multiplayer. We only want your single player story We played your demo's and beta's and didn't like what we seen. You let your PC community down. From Crysis & Crysis Wars to Crysis 2 with so little freedom to choose your power set you made its premise shallow and gimmicky.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
    $50 price tag and a demo that runs like the game so it will let you know if your rig can run it, excellent solution. But people who pirate a game because it didnt release a demo, are douches.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
    Not that I pirated it or that I'm much of a pc gamer anyway, I just get extremely weary about purchasing a game I couldn't run. Hell even a console game I try to find at redbox first.

    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
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
    Yeah whenever a high end game comes out they should do a demo thatll test your system, I dont know what kind of rage Id have if I shelled out the money and couldnt play it or had to drop visual settings to crap.
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 3:51 pm
    Dude, get a new rig. Neither of those games are particularly demanding. My almost two year old system can run them both on max settings. I was thinking about upgrading my video card (but aside from the fact that I'd need to get a better power supply to go with it), but decided against it because I can still play everything I want to without issue.
  • quiknkold
    quiknkold

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
    Dear Crytek,
    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
    Ranim

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
    I bought Crysis actually, because it was a great game. I played the demo or beta or whatever of Crysis 2, and if they maybe had considered making that game halfway decent instead of stripping everything interesting about MP, I would have maybe considered pirating it, but it wasn't good enough for even that let alone buying.

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