Bye bye Crysis...

kiwi_2005 · 06-06-08, 01:13 AM

The developer recently commented that it would be moving away from PC-exclusive development due to piracy concerns. "Similar games [to Crysis] on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more," Crytek president Cevat Yerli explained. "I believe we won't have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future."

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On Monday, developer Crytek announced it would no longer be developing Crysis (PC) patches for "a good reason" that it hoped to say more about "in the very, very near future."

Apparently, the "very, very near future" meant two days.

The official Crysis website has now been updated with a teaser image for Crysis Warhead , presumed to be the next entry in the sci-fi shooting series. No other details, such as platforms or a release date, have been unveiled.

The original Crysis was said to be the first in a trilogy, with Crytek having since trademarked multiple related names, including Crysis Wars, Crysis Annihilation, World in Crysis and Crysis Warhead.

The developer recently commented that it would be moving away from PC-exclusive development due to piracy concerns. "Similar games [to Crysis] on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more," Crytek president Cevat Yerli explained. "I believe we won't have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future."

At present, Crytek is known to have at least one console title and a non-FPS game in the works, along with its nearly-completed efforts to bring the Crysis-powering CryENGINE 2 technology to consoles."

Though it seems very plausible, Crytek never stated this was the reason to scrap patch 1.3, please keep that in mind.

http://www.crysisthegame.com/

Dowly · 06-06-08, 10:16 AM

I wonder how much of the "pirated" copies are actually left to the shelf because of the system requirements/poor performance on older PCs? I mean, let's be real. Crysis would run whole lot of better without the huge amount of square KM's the game have to render, but that are inaccessable to the player. :hmm:

GlobalExplorer · 06-06-08, 11:20 AM

What bull****. This is just another example of the ongoing lobbying to abandon the PC altogether, when all attempts to cripple it with DRM have failed. From an industry that hates if users have control over their hard- and software.

The piracy debate is mostly propaganda. Because people who can afford the time to download 5 gigabytes of game data are not the majority, and these people couldn't afford many games any way.

That's also why most big PC releases now have insane online registration systems. The game industry goes the way of hollywood. Let's hope in the long run this also means emergence of an alternative market that caters for people with a different taste, or any taste at all.

FAdmiral · 06-06-08, 03:06 PM

Then on the other hand, we have this to look forward to....

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/fa...view-1001.html

JIM

SUBMAN1 · 06-06-08, 03:43 PM

Great - welcome to our future world of canned games. No one pushes the boundary on graphics / physics / nothing if we all play with the same spec machine.

Piracy is BS. I own all my games - bought an paid for, and I can't force myself back onto a console when a PC has so much more capability. Its a cop out for devs - All they will make are canned games if these keeps up - kind of like the music industry.

Indie games may be the way of the future for us.

-S

CaptHawkeye · 06-07-08, 09:53 AM

Remember guys, you need to feel bad for Crytek because they made an agonizingly typical and derivative game that they poured millions of dollars into and followed up with a massive back catalouge of unfullfilled promises big enough to make Daikatana seem like Grand Theft Auto 4.

According to Cevat Yerli IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! NYAH NYAH!

06-06-08, 11:20 AM	#3
GlobalExplorer Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Location: Berlin Posts: 2,015 Downloads: 165 Uploads: 0	What bull****. This is just another example of the ongoing lobbying to abandon the PC altogether, when all attempts to cripple it with DRM have failed. From an industry that hates if users have control over their hard- and software. The piracy debate is mostly propaganda. Because people who can afford the time to download 5 gigabytes of game data are not the majority, and these people couldn't afford many games any way. That's also why most big PC releases now have insane online registration systems. The game industry goes the way of hollywood. Let's hope in the long run this also means emergence of an alternative market that caters for people with a different taste, or any taste at all. __________________

06-06-08, 03:06 PM	#4
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Then on the other hand, we have this to look forward to.... http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/fa...view-1001.html JIM __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

06-06-08, 03:43 PM	#5
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Great - welcome to our future world of canned games. No one pushes the boundary on graphics / physics / nothing if we all play with the same spec machine. Piracy is BS. I own all my games - bought an paid for, and I can't force myself back onto a console when a PC has so much more capability. Its a cop out for devs - All they will make are canned games if these keeps up - kind of like the music industry. Indie games may be the way of the future for us. -S __________________

06-06-08, 10:16 AM	#2
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I wonder how much of the "pirated" copies are actually left to the shelf because of the system requirements/poor performance on older PCs? I mean, let's be real. Crysis would run whole lot of better without the huge amount of square KM's the game have to render, but that are inaccessable to the player. :hmm:

06-07-08, 09:53 AM	#6
CaptHawkeye Weps Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 354 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Remember guys, you need to feel bad for Crytek because they made an agonizingly typical and derivative game that they poured millions of dollars into and followed up with a massive back catalouge of unfullfilled promises big enough to make Daikatana seem like Grand Theft Auto 4. According to Cevat Yerli IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! NYAH NYAH!