Report: Crysis 2 Leaked

[Nurb]

At least people will know if it runs on their computer before then by it if there's no demo

Evil Otter Is Pleased

That is terrible!

Crytec's big release crippled by dicks on the internet. Two things here, firstly is it going to affect the release date? And second is this going to affect sales so badly that the studio might not be able to recover and could they be forced to close as a result?

So far, piracy has not had a big effect on larger developers/publishers. Most titles are released pirated before the release as it is. Just usually not this early.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

What actually was the DRM? I'd say if it was particularly controversial or intrusive, and now it turns out it's going to get broken a month before release, I'd consider releasing the game with a patch to remove or downgrade the DRM, no sense annoying the legit buyers, the pirates will have had a go and moved on by then.

Unfortunately, I'd say that, even if this does very well and sells a ton, it won't help, because people are already convinced that piracy destroyed the sales of this one.

 

[Nurb]

Note to PC gamers: this is why no-one makes games for you anymore.

That's good reasoning... in a wrong kinda way.

 

[drisky]

Note to PC gamers: this is why no-one makes games for you anymore.

Are we going to have to bring out the "happily dying" picture? Besides games get hacked on every system, not just the pc. Its not a legitimate enough reason not to port it.

 

[kajinking]

Someone broke the Spore record for getting screwed over by pirates!

I do have to admit though how could this happen? What kind of people could have gotten a copy of the game this late into it's build?

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Oh, fuck. This is serious. I hope it's not that late a build, or else it could become a serious problem. I, for one, plan to demo the game and possibly buy it, but no downloads.

It seems the build was of early January.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Someone's probably going to get fired and/or killed for this...

I'm guessing someone got fired and pissed at the lousy sendoff, no dev would send out their own work unless they were out to hurt people, and yes when you get source code it is always an inside job.

Unless it's a really bad build this will probably kill their PC sales.

 

[thiosk]

sadness. I intended to buy cry2 as well.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Flood the torrent sites with convincing fakes while there is still time. That should lessen the damage slightly.

 

[Irridium]

Crysis 3

Lol. It's Crysis 2. Warhead was the expansion to 1 (although it would have made an awesome standalone, in my opinion).

No, he's saying when they do Crysis 3 he wouldn't blame them if it didn't come out for PC.

I mean, do these fuckers really not get it? Cry all you want about publishers restricting games and not supporting the platform, but if you're going to pirate it you can suck a dick. You're just messing it up for the rest of us.

Agreed. And people wonder why Publishers don't like PC gaming.

Fucking idiots... this is why we can't have nice things!!

While I'm not exactly broken up about the DRM being broken(at 45 days before release, holy shit thats a new record!), but this can't be good. Hopefully they find who did this, and fire his ass.

 

[ASnogarD]

Why the hating on the PC scene ... this leak must of been from inside , or a pathetic security loophole on the Crytek server that holds the builds.
I'll bet its a insider job, one of the builds going out to the publishers and eary access journalists got split to the net.

... or if you are a serious conspiricy , tin foild cap wearing viewer , its a setup for extra publicity... like the HL 2 leak.

If a 360 build got leaked, would the console get the same hate ? Those who pirate this build had intended to pirate the game long before the leak, us legitimate potential customers on the PC platform do NOT deserve to be tarred with the same brush.

 

[Xan Krieger]

How long till some idiot posts on Crytek's forum asking for help because something in the game didn't work right?

 

[vrbtny]

It looks like a Crytek Employee really wanted to release a PC demo....

*Snigger*

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Is this comformed or just someone makeing trouble?

Oh prepare for trouble (and make it double), but it seems to be legit.

I'm actually looking forward to Crysis 2 (though I was going to wait a month or two as there are other games I'm after) and while it was guaranteed that it would be on a pirate site withing a week of release this is something else.

Since it's still to go Gold maybe they can do something small to mitigate the damage.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Better question, how the hell was it leaked? I mean a week before or something sure, but a month and then some? Thats a major issue.

 

[Reed Spacer]

Gotta admit it's kind of funny, though.

 

[Mr. Omega]

And some people still wonder why companies are so desperate to fight against piracy...

OT: Well, not much good can really come from this.

 

[Art Axiv]

I wouldn't be surprised if:
a) Its a controlled leak. Trying to pull off "an apple", if you know what I mean.
b) Crytek finds out through Escapist about this.

 

[David Demers]

Tell me about it.
This is terrible.
Dead Rising 2 was leaked 5 days before release, and cracked THREE days before release.
Gaming seems to be dying.

 

[Firetaffer]

Flood the torrent sites with convincing fakes while there is still time. That should lessen the damage slightly.

Yeeeee...eeess... Plant virus's there, that'll be good!