Crytek CEO: The PC is Still Important

finaly an article pointing out that consoles pirate too >_<

Best PC game yet? Crytek hasn't released any games, only tech demos lol.

Crysis is a highly respected game. The developers will get paid.

I just hope that the PC version isn't the same "console luxury price" of $59.99. I will buy the game but I don't need to subsidize MS and Sony hardware, I paid the cost upfront with my CF 5870's.

Nice, the only problem that I see is: Crysis 2 + Battlefield 3 = Huge hole in my wallet.

They probably leaked it themselves for publicity.

Yay, Go DICE. At least one developer out there gets it.

PC multiplayer demo coming march 1st
Can't wait!!!

Even people that don't play Crysis on PC they just buy it for benchmarking.

I am really looking forward to buying this game!

Psh no way they release it at that price. Its going to be $74.99.

You know I may grab it online and play with it for a while but I still plan to buy a copy, even a backpack version if they are available.

Crysis 2 will suck. Visually it will be downgrade from PC because of consoles. Crytek sold 3+ millions of copies and they should stick with PC and explore DX11 with Crysis 2 instead of making game for Consoles (which are nothing but utter crap) and porting to PC. PC community as punishment will probably make shit load of illegal copies therefore PC sale of Crysis 2 is going to suck. Blame EA and their greediness.

Cool story bro

The PC is Still Important, just not to us.

They left the last part out.

Nicely put Kevin. I like the quote at the end.

If people pirate games that means less games and that means less of a push for newer technology from AMD, INTEL, and Nvidia. If it wasn't for gaming on the PC we would be running a Pentium III with a 3DFX Vodoo 3 2000 pc right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have good knowledge that Crysis 2 looks better than any console game available but will only utilize directx9, not 10, not 10.1, and definitely not Dx11. Trust me, it could of looked a lot better and consoles definitely nerfed the graphics.

Crysis 2 is a definate maybe for me. I'd like to play a demo first tho

Love the last sentence. Something I've pointed out to people in the past, PC gaming is what drives much of the PC market, which is what trickles down to the console market.

actually i'ts a lot easier to pirate console games.

here is a fun fact for everyone.

THERE IS NOTHING IN DX10 THAT DX9 CANT FAKE.

ever hear of fake it till you make it? here is a truth. crysis 1 locked the best out for dx10 systems. however game was hacked, allowing the best, in the demo at least to run off dx9, and you cant tell the difference.

and here is another fun fact

EVERYTHING THAT MAKES DX11 BETTER THAN 9 OR 10 CANT BE HANDLED BY CURRENT HARDWARE.

current hardware cant handle dx11, at least with full everything 11. sure we have tech demos, but thats it. look at hawks, i believe one of the only games with tessalization (sp). i can barely tell the difference between on or off in that game, and it sucks 30-40% of the fps. and that is a week tessalization, imagine what a real strong one would do? imagine it, crysis with 4-5 million pollies, and all those pollies are concentrates with in 50-100 feet of you, and everything further is less because you don't see it as well. there is no game engine currently alive that can handle this AND play a game at reasonable frame rates ON reasonable hardware.

now crysis was a benchmark game, not in game play, i mean literal it was a benchmark game.

if you want to make a real game you make it for real systems.

i have to say, i LOVE that consoles are "holding" games back, instead of 1 upping each other year after year and forcing hardware upgrades, they are forced to 1 up each other by optomiseing engines. anyone who cant appreciate that... i cant really write what i want here or else i wont be able to post for a while again.

Hey wait I think I get it now!

Developers only complain about PC piracy because it happens WAAAY more than console piracy.

I guess that also means if you were a developer who wanted to minimize his losses to piracy you wouldn't even release on the PC.

i guess some developers are realizing how useless and constricting consoles really are, lol

No matter what Crytek does they'll never please everyone. There will never be a happy medium so people will just have to deal with it. They made an SP demo of Crysis and it was still pirated to hell. Yeah they don't all equal a lost sale but the bottom line it is simply doesn't look good any way you slice it to the developer/publisher and it's incredibly disheartening to everyone who gives a damn. So when they make a big budget sequel, who can really blame them for wanting to maximize the return on their investment? Cause and effect. The more people bite the hand that feeds them, the less they're going to be fed.

Yes, I'm a console gamer, but the PC is still important - I think the visual experience is usually better on a PC, if a game is designed well. PC gaming fanboys (hey, and console fanboys) give me a laugh though.. So they are good for something.

It's really sad that the game has leaked. I'd like to think that if people like the game they'll buy it, but that's naive of me.

OMG. Don't you guys get it? Crysis was never meant to be a fantastic game or something everyone could actually even run.

It was created for only one purpose and one purpose only. To create and showcase a new engine that could be sold to developers, for them to use for years down the road when the hardware caught up for their games. It takes years to develop a game, so this made sense.

Crytek could care less if anyone bought Crysis if every developer jumped on licensing their new engine.

Crytek wanted to be the new iD or 3DRealms. Licensing out Quake Tech and Unreal Tech to everyone makes tons more cash than just making a game does.

The problem with Crytek IMO was their engine was too far ahead of its time and video cards didn't keep up with Murphy's law after the 8800 series cards.

The never ending "can it run Crysis" joke discouraged developers and most ended using other engines, such as Unreal tech 3, instead. Crytek realized this and the dumbed their tech down, but by then the shine had wore off and it was too late.

there is a difference in how fps games are made... map wise?
i have to say this is less of a console thing, and more of a "people bought this game the most, lets emulate it" fpses changed in a few ways.

at first they were more or less flat. sure there was higher and lower ground, but it didn't matter, until quake, or duke nukem, i forget which came first.

than they tried to make them big and expansive areas, but people tend to like the claustrophobic corordors more.

and now level design is all about what was proven to work, and who will like it. seriously, i see no real "if consoles weren't around we would have this" kind of game play change.

now if you think all fpses should be free roaming and very nonlinear, well think again. if you want a highly cinematic game, linear is the way to go, and its easier to develop a game that way.

now correct me if i am wrong. but depth of field, and motion blur were both things that were shown off as look what dx 10 or 11 can do, i think 10. now look at borderlands, and other games. borderlands has dof on dx9, and many games have motion blur. dx9 is very robust and can fake MOST of what dx10 can do, and allot of 11. only real thing that stands out as can not do is hardware tessellation, could possibly do software.

After all, as one Tom's reader said on the forums, PC games are what drive the gaming hardware industry towards evolution.

I was the one that said it lol, " the first one " sweet! Good job on paying attention.

I just recently purchased a P67 motherboard all the way from Wisconsin because of the whole recall fiasco, a 2600k which is currently running at 5GHz on water right now as I type and some Corsair DDR3 2000MHz 2 X 4GB memory.

I kept the rest of my setup in my signature.

We are the people who made console gaming possible, and the crowd that will continue to push the boundaries so they can advance even more over time.

Not only that, we 're helping push the limits on research in preventing and curing diseases and disorders and research in other fields as well. The console is just more widely used because not every one knows how to work on a PC or they just don't want to.

I think that they definitely worded it horribly the first time around.

OH YEAH!!! INSTANT BUY FOR BATTLEFIELD 3!!!
PC lead platform please become the hot trend for this decade.

PC have always been the evolving platform for gaming.

There are several reasons for that,
One - there are no main spec PC (both good and bad) leaving a huge range of different specs, the rig is customizable to the owners heart & budget's desire. Just like cars, the user can have any spec ranging from a traktor to a ferarri.

Two - They are upgradeable whenever the owner desires and the purchased software will still work unlike most consoles when the user purchase the next version.

Tree - Software developers learn to adapt to the big variety of specs making coding for it trickier but also more rewarding (how many programmers can make truly multi-threaded software that scales for any numbers of threads for instance?). Sure its harder to optimize for all specs but its not as critical due to the brute force available.

My 2 cents!