GameSpy have just announced details on their involvement in the development of Crysis, including the technologies and features they'll be bringing into Crysis. Those technologies include...
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GameSpy's "Comrade" in-game middle-ware and desktop technology that enables seamless in-game to out-of-game community features, such as instant messaging, friend rosters, advanced matchmaking capabilities.
GameSpy's "Sake" will allow Crytek to store data securely online, enabling gamers to build extensive player profiles and maintain game stats.
GameSpy's "ATLAS" allowing Crytek to easily create an advanced statistical system for competitions within the game and on the Crysis Web site.
So it seems Crysis will have an online stats system of some sort. It won't be anything like the battlefield series, but I think that's generally a good thing.
It's also been announced that the Crysis beta will be made available on fileplanet. It's unknown if this means a paid subscription to fileplanet will be required, but for the sake of the community, I personally hope not. More details will be released on that soon.
I really hope that it isnt just fileplanet who gets the beta.
P.S Im not dead yet wooooooooo