Crytek CEO - No more PC exclusives

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Another high profile executive is ranting about PC piracy. This time it is Crytek president Cevat Yerli.

“We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis,” he said. “We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a [situation] that is not desirable.”

He added: “I believe that’s the core problem of PC gaming: piracy… 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 any more.”
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Cevat Yerli said:
Pirates are responsible for everything bad. Its not possible that we made a crap game, that is nothing like what we promised to deliver. Piracy must be the answer as we have obviously created gaming heaven here, anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or a pirate.
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You can also apply that quote to Infinity Ward, as despite having the highest selling PC game of the year so far they are still blighted by piracy to the point that they wont go out of business.
 
Crysis did quite well, despite the dirty pirates. I wonder how large a part EA played in this decision.

This is quite worrying news as a PC gamer, they are going to make more money this way (good for them) but just how fast will they forget their PC fanbase?
 
Tom|Nbk said:
I think he's making a bit of a scene tbh.

The main reason it didn't sell aswell as they hoped is the silly requirements IMO.
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Good point! And that's why i didn't buy it.

However, i do think they also have a point, and gamers need to be a little more responsible or we'll kil the golden goose.
 
The core problem of the PC platform is diversity, not piracy. Piracy effects console sales as well, also if they wanted to just make money then they would could downsize to a programmer and an artist (preferaby just one guy who can do both) and bang out weekend made mobile phone games that outsell any blockbuster game on any platform.

But atleast they have laid out their intentions, we can now expect future crytek games to feature dumbed down graphics and gameplay that they put a lot less effort into, made for ultra-ease of play offering nothing but a mindless few hours before moving onto your next throw away console title.

PC gamers expect a lot replayability in games now and for the game to be nothing but a few hours singleplayer and a novelty multiplayer thrown in, especially in the FPS genre where the games success is essentially its multiplayer (you can look at CoD4 for that) then you're sure to fail in the PC market. The "my game is x-hours long" is a console package, developers are catching onto that and the ones who aren't making the open ended, content rich games with the intent to update and provide more content post-release are seeing dim PC sales and will never attract the modding communities to keep it afloat years past its time.
 
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