Y'know I was almost irritated that EA wanted my £24.99 right away when I pre-ordered crysis 2 from them (had a £10 off code for thier online store) you dont have to pay with Amazon untill its dispatched even if you pre-order it but now I'm actualy kind of glad. I know it wont make much difference to soften the blow to crytek but they have my money already... or at least EA does and I feel all the prouder that I've paid for this game I've been waiting for for so long in the wake of all this. Now I just need the release date to get here!
On the plus side too, after reading up about it I've learned some interesting things and just made me want the game all the more, first that it will run perfectly fine on my system, and look good too, after seeing peoples reports of frame rates and rigs they were testing it on etc.
Although speaking of graphics, not sure if its just because its an early beta verious but the graphis are devided into 3 sections, "gamer" = low spec, "advanced" = med spec and "hardcore" = high spec... odd for crytek given the options you had in the first game. Oh and this beta is DX9 only, and from leaked footage it looks great already, cant wait to see what it will look like in DX10 or even DX11!
And while I'm avoiding story spoilers like the plague, I've fallen in love with the soundtrack, hope this link wont get me banned or anything but when I find tracks like ....its just amazing... also I totally want the image that guy used as my desktop background!