Electric_larry

We'll just see how this goes. Here's the truth, this game didn't do well because most computers couldn't play it, most computers couldn't play it because it was poorly optimized. The game looked good, but was far from the most sophisticated graphics but it sure would take the most sophisticated computer to play it well, stuff that games like GTA4 for PC catch crap for to this day, yet this game somehow escaped that stigma, must have been the whole PC exclusive wet dream thing. If you had a PC that could play it, most found that it was simply a mediocre shooter. As far as it being pirated, that s just an excuse. Can anyone here say how they count pirated copies? No? It s because you can t, reasonably with accuracy anyway. I imagine it goes something like this. Numbers are rough btw.

Hey investors, we ve got a new game. Since it follows the same space marine shoots aliens theme people have been paying for over and over again it is guaranteed to sell at least 3 million copies.

Investors Okay.

Sometime later

Investors This game only sold 500,000 copies. What gives?

Um pirates?

Investors How copies of the game were pirated?

How many did we say would sell?

Investors 3 million

Exactly 2,500,000 copies were pirated.

Investors, Crytek bak, bak, bak piRAtes, bak, bak, bak piRAtes!

This is how you can confirm a pirated copy exists on someone s computer. You download the game file over bit torrent in its entirety from someone seeding the file, then you confirm it s the complete game. That s the way it s done. That s why some pirates will tell you not to seed if you don t want to worry about getting caught.

The reason I m telling you this is because I want console fan boys to think for a moment (and work is slow). Why is it impossible for any PC game to fail? If any PC game does less than expected sales we are always being told it's because of pirates, not because the game was average or terrible, nobody wanted it or even so poorly optimized that most PC gamers can t even run it. Pirates is every publishers excuse for failure on the PC now.

If you buy it and love it, great, I m happy for you. But don t buy it thinking you re getting the next best thing, a great PC shooter that was victimized by pirates. It s not going to be Halo, or COD or MW and if it fails on consoles too I have no idea what their f ing excuse is gonna be this time.