Crytek dropping PC exclusivity thanks to piracy
- April 30th, 2008
- 5 Comments
In an interview with PC Play Magazine, when asked about the current state of PC gaming, Crytek president Cevat Terli said:
“We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. 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. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.”
Plenty of other PC game developers have raised the same complaint about piracy. You’ll recall that THQ chimed in a couple months ago and Gears of War developer Epic Games announced that it’ll be going console-only from now on.
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Eddie Aitken (Who am I?)
7 months ago
Thanks for the link guys. I always found it sort of funny how companies seem like they give the impression that no piracy goes on the console side of things at all.
Dave (Who am I?)
7 months ago
that sucks its going to look like shit by comparison on the consoles, they only just got 1080 res, PCs had that for donkeys ears
PhilK (Who am I?)
7 months ago
Yeah, Crytek’s problem definitely doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that their game won’t run on any computer less than $1500. I’m sure piracy is a problem, but the PC games industry has way more problems than just that.
I don’t see why you’d want to be PC exclusive if you could avoid it anyway, seems like restricting your market unnecessarily.
Jeff D (Who am I?)
7 months ago
Looks like the pirates are going to kill the goose laying their golden eggs.
Karma’s a bitch.
kk (Who am I?)
3 months ago
No serious gamer would play a FPS with a gamepad. Its a joke. Its like controlling a 1970’s robot
You cant aim and it looks like crap
Make better copy protection. Link the DVD’s to the user’s name
They also have to understand that a game as demanding as Crysis is not going to sell as well. I personally did not buy it until I upgraded my computer because the demo played like crap
These guys also have to understand that if they all adandon the PC market all the hackers will focus 100% on making a much easier way to make consoles play copies