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Crytek: No More PC Exclusives News

Rampant piracy on the PC blamed for the shift in strategy by the Crysis developers...

By Jon Wilcox
Posted: 30/04/2008

A critical hit on PC last year, it seems that Crysis developers, Crytek are less than amused by the performance of the game at retail, blaming widespread piracy for its 'suffering'.

In fact, the German studio is so disappointed by the problem of piracy on the platform that it's changing its policy, vowing not to produce another PC exclusive title again.

Speaking to Hungarian mag, PC Play, Crytek President Cevat Yerli spoke about the problem: "We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis...I believe that's the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy."

The fact that the game was an exclusive on the PC also hindered what Crytek sees is Crysis' underwhelming performance, prompting the change in startegy: "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."

Despite the views of Crytek, the performance of Crysis certainly didn't disappoint the game's publisher, Electronic Arts. In their 2007/08 third quarter earnings report, EA's CEO John Riccitiello spoke of how Crysis had "exceeded expectations", with over one million sales during the three-month period.

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	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 02nd Jul 2008 03:31, Post No: 23 Anyone who says the PS3 doesn't have the memory is a dumbass. The RAMBUS RAM in the PS3 is 4 times the speed of DDR2 giving it over a gig of shared memory
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 30th Apr 2008 14:04, Post No: 22 piracy is not as bad as they want you to believe.the real reason they didn't sell well is because they marketed the game at a level that went far beyond the level that anyone could really play it at.people want to have what they are promised.you can't show people the best look and then tun around and say that they have to settle for far worse.the SIMS managed to sell millions and millions and that game is sold on the PC so piracy wasn't a problem there.
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 27th Jan 2008 06:04, Post No: 21 what is a crysis ip adress i need one to play online or give me a server name an password
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 24th Dec 2007 07:56, Post No: 20 Not all format exclusives bombed. Mass Effect did 444,000 in one week. I'm fairly confident that Crysis will do alot better on the 360.
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 19th Dec 2007 18:56, Post No: 19 crysis wont come out on ps3 as there isnt enough system memory for the game to run theres more chance it will come out on 360 as the 360 uses unified memory and also has 10mb embedded video memory
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 17th Dec 2007 17:52, Post No: 18 a nvidia 8600gt will run this game at about mid-high settings with a acceptable frame rate.it helps alot if you have a duel or quad core cpu mainly and fast ram @ 800mhz.
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 17th Dec 2007 15:15, Post No: 17 so, cod4 and love creed seel well because they released early in the month? wow, thanks captain obvious, oh wait your not captain obvious, because if you were, then maybe, just maybe you would have looked at release dates for the ps3 exclusives you mentioned, which all but HS, released last week of they moths, but hey don't let facts get in the way of your video game hate war
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 04th Dec 2007 00:20, Post No: 16 will a nvidia 8600 gts run this game well does anyone know please
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 03rd Dec 2007 15:14, Post No: 15 Disapointingly short 6-8 hours of gameplay on Delta(you AND enemies have less health(I made health and armor 1000 once in the text file it took max strength pucnches to kill nano suit enemies bullets cannot kill them so it's true )..........
	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 15th Nov 2007 22:58, Post No: 14 This is awesome! I am getting it tomorrow!!! Can't wait!