none of that with PC.

What i think would help is if the prices were lowered. £30+ for a game is a bit steep i find in a lot of cases. £20 new is a lot fairer.
Letting pirates know that companies might stop making games for the PC….wouldn’t work. There’s just no way. Even if they were being completely serious and had proof to back it up. games would still get pirated until people quite simply couldn’t pirate them because they didn’t exist.

its a tricky one.

So yeah I see what you mean, if the pirates did try the demo they would have realsed it was shit in the first place. :p

Something here is amiss!

There was a demo, prior to the release.

I never really trust these “I didn’t buy it because I didn’t like it” opinions of pirates, anyway. They just seem to develop impossibly high standards. And then finish the games anyway.

A very very large video gmaing board which shall remain nameless basically all said the samething I have here. They pirated it to see if they could run it. Discovered it was not everything it was meant to be and then deleted it.

So yeah you are correct that it was widely hyped and very well critically recieved. Also I am not defending piracy at all in anyway. Im just pointing out a specific example of a myriad different reasons as to why pirates pirate.

1.5 million copies on a single platform in the space of two months is good going. CoD4, which he compares it too, was relased on PC, 360 and PS3 at the same time and sold 4 million, I believe, in the same space.

I think it is the ‘Greed’ factor coming into it.

I still think the fact that no computer exists that can run Crysis on full was a factor in people perhaps thinking it would be best to pirate it first. Then not to buy it.

A likely story…I guess that also explains why Infinty Ward recently complained about significantly more people playing CoD4 online with illegal copies that people who bought the game.

“Pretty much scuppers any argument that piracy isn’t still damaging the industry.”

Yup, even if it’s all made up and a big conspiracy and the industry is imagining things and noone who pirates a game would have bought it anyway, the industry itself obviosuly believes it’s damaging. And that’s all that matters.

Crysis also sold over 1 million. Yerli’s ego is so large that he expects his pretty but generic shooting things game to sell billions to everyone in the World.

Did people pirate The Sims? Sins of a Solar Empire? STALKER? yes they did, no where near the level of Crysis though, mainly because not a single sane person would want to pay for something they can’t actually play. Its much safer to d-load something and test it, over buying it and realising you can’t actually play it.

Those that did d-load Crysis and managed to play it discovered it was bland outside of the looks and never bought it.