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	Crytek thinks pirates would buy Crysis if they had to by Jim Sterling on 08.28.2008 0 comments

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Oh, forgot this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI

I pirated Crysis, played it for an hour, uninstalled it and exorcised my computer. The only thing i was interested in was how my new computer could handle the game on the highest settings and once that was done the game was worthless.

Gameplay seems pretty basic. Not that much of an amazing game, it's just pretty.....

I can play the game maxed out almost and i have beat the game and i can say its brilliant, one of the best games i have ever played and i bought it after i played the demo.

People should pay for their games like the rest of us, i think thats why developers make demos, so people can try them before they buy them. So i know for a fact some of you people are just cheap-skates.

Right.

I just bought Crysis coz the game had a price drop lately. At the first time, it pissed me off. Took me two days to finally enter the game. I really find it lame, coz i had the habit of playing hundreds of hours on the original Doom, Duke Nukem, when you had to deal with hordes of ennemies, you couldn't hide nor run, but fight your way in the levels.

I don't find this excitement in new PC shooter games, where you have to play hide and seak for hours against very few ennemis. Funny thing, i can see the leaf from the tree falling when waiting for nanosuit to reload, but when the situation is hot, u play in a diaporama :D

I was willing to pay for Psychonauts despite not even needing to, since I had a crack for it and a burned set. I'm not even interested enough in crysis to try obtain a pirated copy.

I'm not arguing the logic though. If the game is so hot that people are willing to the effort of pirating it and making it available, then at least part of those people grabbing it probably would have ended up buying it if it was made clear that it would not be possible to get a pirated version of it.

Doesn't mean that some people are willing to try the pirated copy purely because it's free. There are quite a few pirated games that I'm going "meh, okay, it's mildly entertaining, but i could have easily passed it right up"

I agree, Pirates suck and deserve no excuses.

And Crysis is not a medicore game, it's a lot better of a game than say Halo which is only overhyped. I had a lot of fun with the game and the multiplayer is really awesome, anyone who says it's medicore is obviously someone who got it expecting a medicore game then played an hour or less of it.

I don't buy that line of reasoning.

If only because that doesn't suggest that they actually would of bought it in the first place.

For example I would of never bought a wii because i thought they were stupid until I saw some info on it.

While i had another friend who thought videogames as a whole were too expensive until I sat them down at a console and got them playing.

It's just as possible someone might have never played Crysis unless they had pirated it first... infact i'd say it's more likely because not to many people go to their friends house to play on their computer (to my knowledge).

Plenty of free Online games lose HUGE numbers of people the minute they go to a pay system.  I know when an old MUD i played went pay like two thirds of the players left.  People who had been playing 2-3 years.  I was one of them.

All that said I in know way condone piracy and think it's wrong.  I just don't like bad arguements.

1.5 mil is still an alright number of sales right? Especially one as talked about as this one. Gaming pirates can rot in the lowest level of hell.