Crysis 2 leaked almost 50 days early

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

What n-ster said. HP alone sold 62 million PC's last year.

they sold probably 61 million i wouldnt want to play gta4 or crysis or (ad infinitum) on, same as dell acer and all the other oems

and if you take the amount of mid - high end gfx card sales as anything consider most of us swap cards like they go stale or sumat ive bought a lot of latests, only to keep my old card to FIX a family pc at somepoint and no my rents dont game my mum hovers the mouse in the air stabbing behind both buttons shed be crap at COD:shadedshu

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Ever since Gehotz or w/e his name was cracked the PS3 and released it, there are more and more torrents up for PS3 games. I just read an article that japan just released its new 3DS and it was hacked within 2 hours.

So developers want to sit back and say that piracy is to blame? I say bullshit. A LOT of it has to do the economy. People just cant afford the shit. Until Sony cracks down like microsoft and starts banning hacked consoles, the PS3 is worthless to play on.

Also, why have PC games gone up $10 in the past year? They used to be $49.99 even when the console version was $10 more. I know developers need to make a living but damn, if you want to cut down piracy, make a kick ass game that people WILL BUY and charge less. Youll still make a helluva profit.

 

[BumbleBee]

Great article from Tweakguides.com talking about pretty much what we are. It was done in 2010 however.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_10.html

Taken from there actually.

"Wii: 36 million
XBox 360: 23 million
PlayStation 3: 17 million

That's a total of around 76 million 'next-gen' consoles currently in use globally."

"Estimated 1 billion PCs currently in use around the world, almost 200 million gaming PCs in particular, and around 1.5 billion individuals using the Internet"

I think those numbers are sales or haven't been updated.

January 2011
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30 million XBOX Live accounts worldwide (link)
60 million Playstation Network accounts worldwide (link)

While that number sounds great, you have to take into account that this includes not only accounts for the PSP and for their PSN website but all are free. These numbers do not tell us how many PSN Plus users they have which comes at a fee.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

God, not even the leak is awful, the Demo is too!
Laggy,skippy and absolutely COD
Everytime i see this ABOMINATION,or try to play it, to be able to at least accept it... my Guts turn inside out
Shame on you Crytek! I played the first Part for over 300 Hours, including the time when the demo came out...but this? Bah!

 

[{uZa}DOA]

Most of that isn't even close to true.

Bugs certainly do exist in the console versions of games, that is a huge myth that they don't. That is why console games recieve patches too.

Also, DRM does not mean you have to buy it again if you re-install your computer. I'm still using the original copy of Crysis I bought on lauch, and I've gone through probably 6 computers since then(not to mention dozens of re-installs).
However, what pisses me off as a PC gamer is that developers love charging us more(or even the same) for games that often don't get the same DLC as the consoles, or when we do get the DLC it is months or years after the console versions.

As my previous post stated, pirates are going to pirate the game no matter what. However, what sucks about this is that the news is picking it up and speading the fact that it has been leaked. That means your average joe bob user that might have bought the game is going to see this news and a huge "you can pirate this instead" flag will go off.

Well I believe Crysis one didn't have a reinstall limit but, I know for a fact Crysis Warhead does.. I recently had my sons hard drive go bad so while replacing that I just upgraded his system to i7 875/P55 and Windows 7. After reinstalling Warhead and patching I went to launch the game it tells me that I exceeded my reinstall limit and wouldn't let the game launch.....

 

[Crap Daddy]

There is a patch that overrides the install limit for Warhead. It's legit.

 

[ShiBDiB]

Let this thread die!

 

[RoutedScripter]

im not even interested to see all the spoliers before , since the game's very buggy i heard , not actually in any rush to play , got enouugh.