This week Crytek revealed that it would cease to be a PC exclusive game developer with its CEO Cevat Yerl blaming the piracy of their latest game Crysis as the reason for the decision. But is piracy in the PC game industry really the main issue? The new PR head of CD Projekt (The Witcher) Tom Ohle doesn't believe it is. In a new chat with Gamasutra, Ohle says that while piracy is an issue, it also " . . . . doesn't have to be as big a deal as it's made out to be." Ohle believes that people who pirate games had no intention of paying for the game in the first place and if they can't get one game for free they will just go ahead and pirate another game.

So what is the biggest issue, if not piracy? Ohle believes its the "ridiculous range of hardware configurations" that PC developers have to deal with when they create a game. He believes that titles that do work on a wide range of hardware, from The Sims to World of Warcraft to most recently Sins of a Solar Empire, have a much better chance of being successful. The recently formed PC Gaming Alliance has announced that they plan to deal with this issue as well as others in the industry. Ultimately, Ohle is optimistic about where PC gaming is headed, saying, "As long as larger developers and publishers don't abandon the PC or move exclusively to casual games or MMOs in the meantime, we'll ride out the storm and everyone will just have to accept that PC gaming isn't d00med at all."