Crytek "Suffering" From Piracy, No More PC Exclusives

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Speaking in a recent interview with PC Play magazine, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli stated his belief that piracy is a core problem surrounding the current generation of PC gaming.

Yerli noted that Crytek is suffering huge losses as a result of piracy and as such, the company does not plan on releasing PC exclusives like Crysis in the future. Future titles will be multi-platform, which isn't all that surprising given that Crytek demonstrated its CryENGINE 2 running on PS3 and Xbox 360 during this year's GDC.[blockquote2]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.[/blockquote2]Good to hear that they will still support the PC platform. Multi-platform game releases are a win-win for consumers, really.

PC PLAY - Magazine For The Next Level Generation [PC Play]

 

[MenaceInc]

hmm...dunno...

i myself am not a fan of piracy...i have a big pile of game cases beside my PC including Crysis (pity it only runs on the lowest settings on my setup) but i do use some parts of what might be considered the piracy scene....like no CD patchs....i have patches for most of my games so i don't have to hunt for the disc but they were developed from a need to get around the protection built into PC games to stop piracy...so...i dunno...


but multi-platform is good as long as it doesn't mean that one platform doesn't slow development on the rest... *glares at ps3*