Found this on one of my daily read pages... Interesting that Crytek are cracking down on this, as we all know weve seen ALOT of vids and screens

http://www.overclockers.com.au/~wayne/crytek.gif

Sounds like they're trying to threaten people into conforming. It wasn't really put together professionally. To me it kinda sounded like some kid got on and sent out a threat letter to make his boss happy. With the beta you're dealing with the general public, and they should have suspected that there were going to be a fair share of people willing to $hit on them at the drop of the hat. If you don't like it then don't release the beta or at least do something about it sooner or dang just make it where this crap isn't possible. My point isn't to justify breaking the NDA because it is stupid and careless but just to point out that there are people out there who just don't care.

Amen, trust is a two way street.

It's a shame, i know. I would have crapped my pants if i would have been able to get in on the beta. And I would have kept it to myself. I wouldn't want my chance with the game screwed up just because i chose to show some screen shots or bench's. To me it just sounded like the letter was written by an intern. This game was basically the deciding factor in me creating my new build. I hope it lives up to it. Come on guys, you're gonna screw it up for the rest of us and we'll never have a chance at a beta again!!!

Based on what I've seen, there's a number of different classes of NDA violation. There's a huge difference between somebody taking screenshots and putting them on their desktop pattern, and people selling hack kits, trying to start their own servers, ect. It would not suprise me if people haven't tried to sell the beta.

I suspect the ban on benchmarks is more about message control, keeping ignoramuses from making ridiculous statements. Some pictures and word of mouth actually helps more than it hurts.

Real life example. I know a guy who finagled himself some beta time. Runs a dual 8800, but only two gigs of ram, which is, of course, loaded down with 50 widgets and the spyware that comes with his wrestling porn addiction.

He's has a ludicrously skewed idea of what the expected hardware requirements are.

I'm betting the letter was written by a harried bee eater, who's inbox is filled with 250 thousand requests for invites, and another half million requests for tech help on how to pirate the game, and considering the level of ass hattery they're dealing with, I don't blame them.

I think they're a bunch of cry babies....they release a beta knowing full well that everyone wants to know what the game is going to look like. I can see banning those putting out hacks and glitches, etc. But come on. If you have an awesome product, don't you think someone would want let everyone else know how awesome it is??? It's called building up the hype. I bet that is all it is, too. They're just jealous they're hype isn't as big as Halo 3 was.

They don't want screenshots, framerates, etc released early because it's not a finished product. Hype is exactly the concern - if dodgy screenshots or videos with naff frame rates gets leaked, it will damage the game's reputation before it's finished - let alone sent to reviewers or put on shop shelves. Surely no-one is THAT impatient that they can't wait a couple of months to let them finish the game properly?

If you sign an NDA you should stick to it.


For what it's worth, I'm not that fussed about Crysis anyway. Everyone's been harping on about the graphics, but I've heard very little to suggest that the gameplay will be any good. I have a strong suspicion it's going to be eye candy... but that the jar will be broken.

we should fight fascism in all its forms

Tougher sentences for parole violators!

AND world peace...


Where were we?

I assume this means that you believe that no contracts should ever be binding. Good luck living in that cave...