Such a shame. I'm one of the few people that played and really enjoyed Crysis 2 and 3 on console. For AAA games they did not sell well at all and i have no idea why...

Bringing it on themselves doesn't excuse the business model. If you smoke and give yourself lung cancer, the cause of death is still lung cancer even if you brought it on yourself.

Must be. Did any of the Crysis games sell more than 1 million on PC? They did on PS3/X360.

Crytek will be no more but its "wise" words will live forever.

Yeah the gameplay is a lot more slower and weighted when compared to the likes of COD. Some people see this as bad gameplay but it's just different. Like you said, the MP on KZ is pretty good.

uh oh.

AAA all the time just doesn't work...

I wonder why they didn't mention the probably expensive purchases they did after the THQ bankruptcy. When they bought so many rights and got some studios people wondered where they got so much money from (I mean, they had to bet against other companies who tried to get the studios or game rights as well) and that was maybe too much for them.

Ryse wasn't really a great game and all but I doubt that it would have sold so much better with a 85+ Meta. Maybe 500k more...

They sold on PC, Crytek just thought they could make a cash grab on console with a mediocre FPS, just like many many devs during last gen.  The folks on PC who played Crysis 1, were pretty satisfied...yeah, the story was mediocre, but the open world and choice of doing things your way, were pretty awesome.  And killing people with chickens +1.  

Your assumptions about PC are pretty much irrelevant, no offense, but no one person here can speak for an entire group of people, and all it sounds like is parroting from an industry that's been obsessed with nickel and diming it's user base to death with closed networks.  It has nothing to do with piracy.  It has everything to do with them realizing they can give you unfinished games, and sell you the rest of it and increase their profit, and gamer's, generally are too disorganized to do anything about it.

And no, the truth about PC, at least among my circle of friends and I, is that once we understand a game has had parts axed from the PC version because it can't be done on console, we ignore it.  Plain and simple.  When it turns out that parity among all the platforms is of the highest importance to a dev, we go back to whatever game we were playing before.  The great thing about PC is, we don't have to buy the new 'shiny' the industry wants to force feed us.  I just go back to games like Stalker, which is still one of my favorite franchises of all time, and has a very, very loyal mod base that keeps bringing new cool stuff either content or texture/graphics updates.  Like the Lost Alpha 'mod', which is actually a standalone game (even though I own all 3 games...legally)), built entirely on the 2004 Stalker build that GSC released to the public, in 2009.  The mod community basically recreated through pictures and maps, every single map from the series, while adding whole new areas to explore complete with graphical/physics etc.. updates.

Now, you can claim to know the minds and intents of every PC Gamer out there, but that's quite obviously not the case (let me know when you get solid numbers on digital downloads, you'd be the first, in the world).  Likewise with anyone else who tries to do the same, you don't know them, you don't know me, and you sure as hell don't know my purchasing practices. THAT's just the truth.

Btw, here's the location of the legal and free standalone Stalker - Lost Alpha 'mod'

http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha

Crysis 1 and 2 did, with digital both may have surpassed 1.5million ltd.