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No more PC exclusives for Crysis dev

by Steven Williamson on 30 April 2008, 10:33

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Piracy has caused a headache for Crytek

Crytek president, Cevat Yerli, has said that due to piracy issues plaguing its critically acclaimed first person shooter, the company will no longer develop PC-exclusive titles in the future.

In an interview with PC Play, Yerli said that he believes that piracy is the main problem with PC gaming and the impact of pirates has had a significant effect on Crysis.

"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," he told the website.

"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.

When asked whether Crysis will ever appear on consoles, Yerli dismissed the idea saying that Crysis "would have to be largely changed to bring it to Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. Crysis is designed to be PC Exclusive."

Despite piracy issues, Yerli did make it clear that the Crytek will continue to develop games for the PC platform.

Read the full interview at PC Play


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Posted by kopite - Wed 30 Apr 2008 10:54
A sad day indeed.

PC gaming seems to be losing all the people who used to pioneer it. ID, Epic, valve and now Crytek. Wonder who`ll be next.

ITs a sad state of affairs PC gaming used to lead the way in technology and now it seems that we are being left with conversions now.

Surely things like steam are helping to combat Piracy though?
Posted by kalniel - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:52
I'm sure the freedom brigade will still pipe up that piracy has no effect on PC sales.. :rolleyes:

A steam only release might help counter it, but then you also lose a huge amount of retail sales, so you're still not selling as much.
Posted by dangel - Wed 30 Apr 2008 12:22
Supporting consoles too makes financial sense - sales on those formats aren't just down to less piracy but to the user base overall and the price of entry (by comparison). Loved crysis (still playing it with 3rd party levels) and bought it. A lot of people did regardless of those who didn't.
Posted by kopite - Wed 30 Apr 2008 12:25
I think if the PC market is going to survive Then Things like Steam are the future.
Posted by dangel - Wed 30 Apr 2008 12:28
I don't think it's going anywhere - it's not like the console market where if it doesn't perform the platform will disappear. People will carry on buying PCs for all the other things they do (even if they own consoles) in addition to gaming. The market for games will therefore always exist for it and with the closeness of formats (the 360 platform is very similar to develop for and there are a number of cross-platform game engines to choose from) it's nowhere near as hard to develop titles as it once was.

I like steam but i buy a lot of games on physical media as it's cheaper (mostly).

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