Will continue to support the PC, but no longer as an exclusive release platform.
Speaking to PC Play Magazine, Crytek president Cevat Yerli has revealed that piracy of PC games is such a massive problem that it has forced the Crysis developer to move to multi-format releases.
"We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis," said Yerli. "We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that's the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform."
AdvertisementYerli continued: "Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we won't have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore."
He didn't say it, but this all but confirms that future instalments in the Crysis franchise will be coming to home consoles and PC. We thought Crysis was a top-notch FPS and it certainly deserves to be played by a larger audience, one which consoles should give it.
joe7 wrote at 16:52 on 29 April 2008
Means the next Crysis won't be such a graphics king this one was.
Consoles & (top) PCs are rarely at the same level of performance and capabilities, thus it won't be able to become so brilliant anymore. Or developers will just waste a lot of timing making it look *worse* to fit consoles, instead of making a shiny, core-hungry pc game. It is kinda sad..
Jimmy wrote at 23:09 on 29 April 2008
Shame these assholes won't buy a game that rocks.
mack wrote at 23:19 on 29 April 2008
piracy may be bad but it still were not enough to stop the sims from selling over a hundred million copies.
user78405 wrote at 23:55 on 29 April 2008
it not all true crysis is a game that meant to run on only high end video cards this game is not comparable to unreal tournament 3 and i think unreal 3 engine is better optimized and performance than this latest crytek engine that is poorly optimized and that required a geforce 8800 gx2 to 9900.
bloodline wrote at 03:53 on 30 April 2008
You apparently missed the part where he said that Crysis was impossible to make for the 360 and PS3...
oldo wrote at 11:12 on 30 April 2008
At least, there won't be a bad business to force people to upgrade their computer.