The Big P

[jawakiller]

Played once, will never do it again. I can imagine everyone who pirated Crysis 2 had this monologue:

My sweet, preicous machine. I love you, you are the center of my existence. If only there was a game that truly proved your worth...

Wait, what's this? Another Crysis game? Challenge accepted.

*three hours of pirated download later...

Hm, not bad, the start up menu looks nice.

*le three minutes later...

ARGHHHAAA!!! BURN IT WITH FIRE!! BURN THE HORRIBLENESS WITH FIRE!! IT BURNS, IT BURNS US PRECIOUS. TAKE IT OFF. NEED FIRE!

*le can of gasoline and a lighter

BURN THE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND CAST THIS DEMON BACK INTO THE ABYSS FROM WHENCE IT CAME!

*Meanwhile, back at company HQ...

Look sir, so many piraters loved our game. If only they bought it, we would have sold millions. Onward to make Crysis 3!

 

[Noxshadow]

Erin, you are a lier.

 

[rooislangwtf]

I must admit to pirating Crysis 2 for the sole purpose of seeing if my PC could handle it. I played the game for all of 10 minutes.

 

[BlueMage]

Well, Crysis 2's singleplayer was awesome, and I'm a PC gamer. Multiplayer was great in the demo, but in the final version it had lost it's charm.

And yes, I had played Crysis, and I think it's a better game, but Crysis 2 was still a solid, very fun game.

Thank you, from a fellow PC gamer.

Good to see so many good little boys and girls here.

This is why CoD and BF keep getting rehashed. When they make a new game, I'll actually buy it.

 

[ElPatron]

Clearly the four million people who pirated Witcher 2 had much better taste. Their morality still sucked though

Now, prove that there were 4 million individual downloaders.

Don't forget to account for seedboxes, failed/multiple downloads, the fact that those numbers are usually cross referenced with various sites, which makes downloads count several times.

Ever wondered why CD Projekt said they were only sending letters to people they were 100% sure? Because whoever calculated those numbers cannot prove them.

I'm assuming a lot of the people who pirated it did so to see if their computer could run it, not that it's a good excuse.

Especially with the existence of <url=http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx>this website.

I never pirated a game to know if I could handle it, but I know from personal experience that sometime that site fucks up.

Some hardware I had was supposed to run a game, it didn't. Another time, it said it couldn't handle a game. It did.

I never used that site ever since.

 

[Lunar Templar]

XD nice zinger at the end there.

to bad we'll probably get another Crysis game though :/

 

[AbstractStream]

Other P word? What other P word? Surely it isn't penis?

 

[plainlake]

The P- word? like in ported? Pirates vote with their wallet. As soon as that EA stamp is on there, alot of the profit is going to get pirated. I never played crysis 2 btw, dident look like much of an improvement from.. well, far cry..

 

[Something Amyss]

Ah, the dreaded P-word. Well ... the other P-word.

Still haven't narrowed it down.

People play pirated PC ports? Preposterous. >.>

Particularly appreciated the part about the property being pretty poor.

Pirates vote with their wallet.

Poppycock.

Piracy statistics say to the producers that these games are worth playing. This promotes the persistence of those poor titles, pretty much resulting in the polar opposite of a negative vote.

"Voting with your wallet" is a pretty pathetic notion to begin with, as it only really relates to affirmative motion. Particularly, whether game X or game Y is preferred. Negative votes are impossible to differentiate. Piracy Proponents are merely setting up another positive voting predicament, predictably prompting the assumption that people prefer these titles but prefer not to pay.

Popular pirated properties are considered preferable by corporations as they still promise popularity.

 

[Something Amyss]

Now, prove that there were 4 million individual downloaders.

Didn't even prove that. It used some dodgy assumptions and cooked mathematics to what would ultimately be a seriously inflated number. I seriously wouldn't be surprised to find the number was double or more what could be reasonably proved.

As of the time I hit quote, I have one post in this thread for a total of 33 posts. Assuming no other posts until I hit send, I will be one seventeenth of the thread.

Extrapolating, as CD Projekt did, I could assume I was 1/17th of the Escapist board posts. Since I have 7874 posts, that means that there is a grand total of 133858 posts.

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who read the whole interview, as the guy who gave that number even partially admits to its faulty nature.

 

[I.Muir]

Pirates again, when did this become a big deal
I thought the bigger deal was being punished for not being a pirate

 

[kouriichi]

Shes right. I hated Crysis 2.

I wouldnt pirate it if EA payed me to. ((mostly because i dont accept dirty money, and EA isnt exactly clean.))
It was just horribly annoying to me. It was really slow, and the controls felt kind of floaty. The worst offence being they added the whole "Dog Tag" Mechanic to the game to stop camping, and then added in a perk to negate it so people could stay invisible in their dark corners.

It looked nice though. But i happen to think Borderlands was one of the best looking games ever. So graphics dont mean all that much to me x:

Oh wait, OT: Great comic These are the main reason i jump on the escapist daily.

 

[Agayek]

Huh... I always thought that smaller, more linear level design would give developers more opportunity to enhance NPCs AI behavior and pathfinding. Say what you want about Crysis but the AI was impressive for the scale of environment it had to deal with. Thanks for lowering the bar Crytek!

Speaking as someone who predominantly played stealthy in Crysis 1, the human AI was just this side of retarded. You can quite literally walk up and choke a ***** right in front of someone and they will continue to stare blankly at you until you walk away.

 

[Vault101]

Cryisis 2 is bad now?....

 

[Xan Krieger]

Crysis 2 was bad? That's news to me and I played it all the way through twice.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

This is what I thought when I saw that The Incredible Hulk was one of this year's most pirated films. I think's it's because it's the worst Marvel Studios film, but people still want to see it before The Avengers, so they just pirated it...

 

[roostuf]

I actually didn't see the ending to this comic. When the punchline kicked in, it gave me a chuckle. Good one, but still sad that so many would pirate a game like that. You would think that these gamers would consider behaving since gaming companies are trying to come up with ways to stop piracy or 'sneaky' tactics to rip them off.. which now gamers are being the ones ripped off. Had to say it.

I like to call it karma, and i like your icon by the way.

I <3 Cteno!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Other 'P' word? What other 'P' word? Potato? Pistachio? Piccolo? Printer? Playstation? Pringles? Pepsi? Paparazzi? Pokemon? Phantom? ...damn running out of 'P' words.

 

[mike1921]

Ah, the dreaded P-word. Well ... the other P-word.

Still haven't narrowed it down.

People play pirated PC ports? Preposterous. >.>

Particularly appreciated the part about the property being pretty poor.

Pirates vote with their wallet.

Poppycock.

Piracy statistics say to the producers that these games are worth playing. This promotes the persistence of those poor titles, pretty much resulting in the polar opposite of a negative vote.

"Voting with your wallet" is a pretty pathetic notion to begin with, as it only really relates to affirmative motion. Particularly, whether game X or game Y is preferred. Negative votes are impossible to differentiate. Piracy Proponents are merely setting up another positive voting predicament, predictably prompting the assumption that people prefer these titles but prefer not to pay.

Popular pirated properties are considered preferable by corporations as they still promise popularity.

does popularity matter if it doesn't mean money? Piracy only helps game profits if word of mouth is good and convinces someone else to buy it.

Voting with your wallet is a fine notion if you could actually get enough people to do it. The problem is it's impossible to get so many people aware with a market like gaming.

 

[Comic Sans]

Well, Crysis 2's singleplayer was awesome, and I'm a PC gamer. Multiplayer was great in the demo, but in the final version it had lost it's charm.

And yes, I had played Crysis, and I think it's a better game, but Crysis 2 was still a solid, very fun game.

Someone. Finally!

I was beginning to feel like that one guy who likes the prequels better in a Star Wars convention. Honestly, I liked Crysis 2 a whole hell of a lot. It was more linear and wasn't as graphically impressive (though it still looks better than everything that doesn't have Battlefield or Witcher in its name), plus it's a shining example of how to perfectly pace a game.

I can't see how this game deserved much hate...

Because this is The Escapist, where it's popular to bandwagon hate popular stuff.