Crytek CEO: One legit PC game copy equals 20 pirate copies

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Crytek CEO: One legit PC game copy equals 20 pirate copies

Posted Jun 27th 2008 9:30AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, FPS

In a new Q&A for their upcoming first person shooter Crysis Warhead, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli is once again raging against piracy in the PC games industry. Yerli states that the industry is the "most intensely pirated market ever." As far as sales of their PC products, he claims that in terms of their 2007 shooter Crysis, "the ratio between sales to piracy is probably 1 to 15 to 1 to 20 right now."

That's a pretty brutal opinion and while Yerli states that they will try to stop piracy in some way with Crysis Warhead (he doesn't announce specific plans at this point but it's likely to involve some kind of online DRM) he does say, " . . . if you're a PC gamer, and you really want to respect the platform, then you should stop pirating. We will see less and less games appearing on the PC, or less and less games pushing the boundaries of PC gaming." While he has already stated that they are moving into console game development, Yerli did say they would "only consider PC exclusive titles that are either online or multiplayer and no more single-player."

Tags: crysis, crysis-warhead, crytek, ea, electronic-arts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

OR, maybe they could just lower the price of their games? :)Posted at 10:47AM on Jun 27th 2008 by WilR

Oh for the love of crap in a can. That is such utter bullshit, the reason why Crysis FAILED in being a well sold title is because of three things:

1. Lame marketing. Crysis to be honest looked more to be a showcase for it's new Crytek engine, that's pretty much it. The story of Crysis was just extraordinarily cliche and lame.

2. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS!!!! Despite the vast amount of gamers out there with heavy duty gaming rigs, many gamers do not in fact have this hideously insane rig to support such huge system requirements. For the graphics quality itself, it seems that it's just way too bloated, and way too heavy on system resources, JUUUUST for that extra tiny bit of detail.

3. Price. Crysis was a poorly marketed game, they gotta realize it, they focused so much on the graphical capabilities of it's new engine that it forgot how to be innovative and fun. In all honesty it seems many games / movies are becoming a penis-waving contest for visual artists to see which one's is bigger.Posted at 11:08AM on Jun 27th 2008 by Iron Raptor

Has to be pirating. Has to be. There is no way they wrapped a mediocre game around a resource hog of a game engine. Nope. No way.Posted at 1:38PM on Jun 27th 2008 by ticklefist

It really dosen't matter that people pirated it.
go on any big torrent site, and look at the comments for crysis.
Its just a bunch of people crying because their computers aren't good enough.

I bought a copy of crysis. and I have to say I'm regretting it now. They canceled the latest patch to work on that "Crysis warhead" thing which just continues that crappy story. Honestly I bought Crysis for multiplayer,Because it looked like a fun game to play DM and TDM. Multiplayer has always been buggy and unbalanced. It has always needed work and still does.
Posted at 3:29PM on Jun 27th 2008 by Eric Jackson