Comments on: Yerli: Crytek sales to piracy ratio 1:15 or 1:20

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:17:56 +0000

I definitely agree with his stance on piracy, but it surprises me that the ratio is as high as 15:1 in favour of pirated games.

I actually hope they do manage to do a decent amount of trade with Warhead because I’d hate to see Crytek - one of the few developers realy working to raise the bar in PC gaming - put less priority on the PC and start developing for consoles and doing PC ports.

I bought my copy of Crysis, just as I buy all my PC games (frankly, it’s usually less hassle than pirating!) and I really don’t have a problem with most copy protection software - Bioshock’s was pretty much invisible to me, for example - and whilst Steam was a pain the first time I played Half-Life 2, it’s now a familiar feature of PC gaming and actually makes the whole patching and updating of games thing just about invisible. Which is definitely a good thing.

By: ecu

ecu — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:38:38 +0000

Regardless of what you think about Crysis, it doesn’t change the fact that he’s right. Piracy on the PC is a huge problem, and it’s worse because PC games are dirt cheap anyway.

By: Rapidfire

Rapidfire — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:35:43 +0000

Cevat Yerli is an ignorant dreamer!
We could be more than happy, if ‘… the ratio between sales to piracy is probably 1 to 15 to 1 to 20 right now …’ - that would indicate at least some interest of gamers for that dumb Crysis gameplay. Crysis is a total biz failure and a flop. Hey Cevat Yerli: Wake up!

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:49:22 +0000

So it’s “may have an impact” now is it?

I thought this was a done deal, and they were no longer PC exclusive.