Nobody in this forum will download Crysis 2 or Crytek will cry

[Bells]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...irate-the-Game

Totally serious guys. Do not download this leaked eagerly awaited game that was leaked in such a state to actually allow updates and multiplayer. Crytek will be mad at you and veeeeeery disapointed.

All kidding aside though... not really advocating Pirating Crysis 2 (never played the first one...) But this must be a huge bummer for the developers and pc gamers in general. I mean, if i had a Triple A title in the works for the PC i would honestly revise my points on doing so right now.

I mean, people beat FPS's in like a Week tops now. 2 months ahead? Sheesh... there goes a ton of appeal.

So, any of you following this one around? Still planning on getting the game or was planning on it?

Cause now you can check it on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktCGnK27JJY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BzO4COahRo

So, really, anybody following this?

[The Argent Lord]

I'm not following the news on this, but frankly I don't much see how it changes anything. The pirates who don't buy games will still pirate it and not buy it. The people who don't pirate will wait 'til it comes out and buy it. And the try-before-buy people will just have a little longer on the try period.

[Bells]

Not really... you see, there is so far no Crysis 2 Demo for the PC, and now the game is out nearly 2 months before it should be out. This is quite a push for people who want to pirate games, and the game will pretty much be opened up and fully explored by the time of release, so this could actually swing a ton of sell to Yes or No... and actually... cosndiering the midset of today gamers and specially the FPS crew ... it's not abusrd for the game to lost it's novelty before it's own launch day.

It's pretty damaging...

[The Argent Lord]

I understand what you're saying, but I don't see where it has much merit. If I'm a pirate who doesn't buy games, cool, game came out two months early for me. No change in sales. If I don't pirate games, I don't pirate this one. No change in sales. The only people this affects are the ones who pirate a game to see if they like it, and then if they do like it they buy it to support the developers. And if I'm one of those I don't NOT support the developers just because it got leaked.

I suppose there are some people who would normally buy the game but will instead be drawn to pirate it because of this. I expect that this number is miniscule. Gamers, for the most part, have already made their decision whether to pirate or not and won't change it over this.

[krogothwolf]

Yeah, I think your overstating the early leak actually does to a game. Almost all of the people who are planning on buying the game aren't going to pirate it just because it was leaked, they still will wait to buy it. The people who were planning on pirating will just pirate it earlier. It's not as big as a blow as you think it'll be, maybe effect 2-5% of the total sales probably.

[Sifright]

no guys you don't understand the sky is falling and THIS This is why we can't have nice things, err pc games

[Pip Boy]

It also depends on the condition of the leaked material. It sounds like if its 2 months ahead of release, the leak probably isn't a completed version of the game and will lack many things the final version will have. I bet a lot of people who pirated the leak also pirate/buy the finished product when it becomes available.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Pip Boy

It also depends on the condition of the leaked material. It sounds like if its 2 months ahead of release, the leak probably isn't a completed version of the game and will lack many things the final version will have. I bet a lot of people who pirated the leak also pirate/buy the finished product when it becomes available.

Yes but if you were reading about the leak, you'd know its a full version of the game as if bought, including any updates Crytek releases to polish it up. Also, two months out, it's probably pretty much the completed game. This isn't MAGICKA or anything.


Also Krogo is 2-5% sales an actual figure or did you just make up those numbers. Because my sources tell me it's actually 20-500% of sales...

[Bells]

as stated, it seems to be one of the final Beta builds, it's a nearly finished copy with some bugs and all the keys necessary to install it like a legitimate copy.

Now, yeah, it's not like they will loose 30% of the revenue over this (at least i don't think so...), but it sorta bugs me that we never really know for sure just how big of a hole something like this can cause or not. Again, in media, sometimes it's not the Bottonline that matters but the way it's perceived. Maybe Crytek and EA will loose what...2-3k copies worldwide of people who would actually buy the game and for some reason after the leak decided not to? Maybe?

Still, it's damaging. Because behind these games you have investors, and companies and jobs. And it's kinda hard to Green light a Multi Million dollar project if your company has a track record of shit getting leaked out. That hurts the overall quality of the games we get and the bullshit DMR they paste on it... specially if you have to divert funds to your "not let shit get leaked out department" instead of the actual game.

It's not all bleak news though... a bunch of Fans made a support petition claiming they will wait the actual launch of the game, which is nice...

And this is not a major point, but something that bugs me nonetheless... you see, when you play a pirated game you are not as engaged on it as you are with a bought copy. I know it sounds strange, but any of you that ever played a game in Rom version and the real thing, probably can tell that is a difference... you know, like people say that drinking coke on the Glass bottle tastes different than drinking it on the Plastic ones? Kinda like that.

So i would imagine that, the way people break apart games and shout their opinions left and right these days, have a couple thousand nerdlings roaming around formating opinions on a game they never bought but were glad to play and dissect, can be somewhat damaging to the future projects big and small game studios decide to put forth in the future.

no guys you don't understand the sky is falling and THIS This is why we can't have nice things, err pc games

...derp?

[Pip Boy]

Originally Posted by Azisien

20-500% of sales...

They better sue someone for their potential losses of 15 thousand trillion hypothetical dollars!