Crysis looks great, but as far as I can tell, it's essentially the same thing(shootin' KO-reans) all the way through, which is why I'm not excited about Warhead.

Yeah, didn't bother to download it, there's no way in hell I could play it.

I guess my plan to download patches for games I don't have is working...

BTW, the demo was appropriately advertised and marketed, so anyone clever enough to download it from torrent or whatever would have been well aware of the demo, which came some months before release.

Eh. Crysis was a decent game. However, the people at Crytek need to STFU already. also, if I recall correctly, wasn't Crytek suspected of pirating game making software a while back?

There was a demo for Crysis. Unless you had a Quad Core PC(which I'm guessing most pirates didn't have.), I don't buy the "I pirated to see how it ran" excuse.

@jim Sterling

Your anti-pirate bullshit is pissing me off. Your anti-homebrew stance is also pissing me off. Stop fucking whining. I doubt you even have a pc that can play crysis anyway, so how does this effect you?

BTW, homebrew and pirating software are completely different things. Yes modifying your psp to run homebrew software is actually illegal due to legal agreement you accepted stating you wouldn't modify the hardware or software for unattended purposes. But they are not ethically the same thing. Also, why the fuck is wrong with dumping my psp games on memory stick or dumping my games on my pc's hard drive. Yes they are both illegal activities but I don't give a shit. Yes I buy my games, i just want to be able to run them off memory instead of a freak'n disc. This way it makes it easy to switch between games and reduces and wear and tear on my cd's, which always end up all over the place or in 100 cd spindle cases mixed with shit from 1997.

Also I'm really annoyed by the all the self-righteous bullshit too. You know why I'm not against pirating? Emulation. I want to play Earthbound on my pc or psp? Is that so wrong? I"m pretty sure in your early days you played with snes emulators. Heck if it wasn't for Zsnes I would have never discovered all those great snes rpgs.

Back in the late 90s early 2000s there were tons of snes rpgs we didn't have access too because american publishers didn't want to bring them over. Our only resort? Emulation and fan translation. I respect all those hard workers that got Star Ocean to finally work on an emulator or the fine Translation work for Shin Megami Tensei I and II. Go ahead hate pirating software you hypocritical jackass. I know I have no right to stand near the banner of anti-pirating, becasue I grew up doing that shit all through highschool. Maybe you weren't a geek back in the 90s (i have no clue how old you are), but I knew many fellow geeks who copied/pirated psx and pc games. Is it becasue we wanted to destroy industry? NO, we just wanted to fucking play games.

So go ahead with your anti-homebrew, anti-emulation, anti-"pirating" campaign. Keep thinking that stealing games and developing homebrew software is the same shit. All you do is make yourself out as a big hypocritical fool. Shut up and let the industry handle the pirating crisis themselves, they don't need you keep whining about so-called pirates, who just want to play Earthbound on their goddamn psp.

Pirating a game that is readily available and one that is out of print is completely different, ethically.

Again, he's not quite right. I downloaded the patch to see if the damn game worked well yet. Not because i was still playing it. In fact, testing that patch probably was the last time i played it. It didnt make much of a difference, incidentally.

Also wanted to point out that people that pirate everything and buy nothing are still dicks.

Perhaps those pirates couldn't afford the game itself after purchasing the fusion-powered rig necessary to play it comfortably at the graphic detail that all the screenshots and preview info promised?

byrc: Sssh, child.

I'm not completely anti-pirating, I'm certainly not anti-homebrew and I'm not anti-emulation. If you'd actually read the things I write, you'd realize that my main beef is with the bullshit excuses. I couldn't give a fucking shit if you pirate, but don't expect me to believe you justifying it with anything other than "I didn't want to pay."

I've used emulators, I download music. I am not suggesting pirates should be strung up by their balls. What I am saying is that it's a difficult thing to justify, and the people who try often end up looking like dickheads.

Your anti-pirate bullshit is pissing me off. Your anti-homebrew stance is also pissing me off. Stop fucking whining. I doubt you even have a pc that can play crysis anyway, so how does this effect you?

HAHAHAHA you're a laugh riot, keep it up.

I dont think Crytek realizes people pirated Crysis cause they heard it runs like crap on most machines.

An excuse hast appeared! What shalt thou do?

FIGHT MOCK
USE LOGIC IGNORE

Has anybody actually thought of Crysis as anything but a graphical benchmark? I can't think of a single feature that should make Crysis stand out other than "requires a super computer powered by human souls to play". So instead of asking me "Why don't people by our game?" maybe Crytek should try asking "Why should people by our game?"

How about this for an excuse "I'm not paying $60 for that piece of shit". I couldn't even be bothered to use bandwidth for it after trying it. Now Spore, Left For Dead, Ghostbusters, etc, they get money when they come out.

In extension to my earlier comment about pirates who were too cashless after forking out for the hardware. More likely is that most people were put off actually buying the game by most stores' policy of not refunding/giving store credit for games that have been opened. A friend of mine had to give me his copy of Call of Juarez (purchased legally) because it ran like a three-legged dog on his machine and the place he bought it from had that very same policy. I know this discounts the avenue of actually renting the game, but the rental fee on top of buying it (should it actually run well) IS added justification to those who need no justifcation at all to pirate.

On a lighter tangent - I like my women like I like my coffee. Stored in jars in the 'fridge.

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Good article, sad comments.

I was also one of the 2 people in society to try the demo... it ran OK on my PC [at points], but still looked like Far Cry, and because I wasn't blinded by pixel shaders I realised it was cruddy to play.
I didn't even finish the demo, never mind wanting more. No sale.

p.s. I agree with Bwark-Kupo.

@SourGr8pes
No, but you can go online and order one from the internet, just like you can get your pirated imports.

Dumbshit.

Pirates wouldn't need bullshit excuses to justify themselves if there weren't any self-righteous defenders of copyright around to put them on the defensive.

Everyone has some pirated something in their lives and most people still do. What pisses me off is the people looking down on pirates when I can look at almost anyone's computer and find something they shouldn't have on it - whether it's music (most offenders), movies, anime-fansubs or games of some sort. I'll bet most of you have watched some of that "free pr0n" on the internet but that ain't supposed to be free either.

I think that as long as you buy something you are not a total jackass but the hypocrisy is what really disgusts me.