Crytek CEO: Not sure there will be a Crysis 2 demo

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Crytek CEO: Not sure there will be a Crysis 2 demo

Posted Apr 16th 2010 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Demos, FPS, Multiplayer, Crysis 2

While Crytek released a free single player version of the original Crysis and also released a free LAN only version of Crysis Wars (with the ability to be turned into a free online supported game from time to time) it's not certain that Crytek will offer a free demo of their upcoming shooter Crysis 2. Develop reports that Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli stated, "That's something we need to think about, because we haven't fully decided on this yet."

In fact Yerli believe we may see less and less free demos released in the game industry overall, saying, " it becomes prohibitively expensive" to made them. He also feels that publisher Electronic Arts' announced plans to possibly explore ways to release a small version of a full game for $10 or $15 is "interesting." Yerli believes EA plans in this regard have not been explained fully, adding, "I understand why people are thinking that all EA wants to do is maximise profits out of the audience, but really, what it's really trying to do is get investment back but while being as fair to the gamer as much as it can. Ultimately, it will be a better deal for the game."

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

How is this a better deal for the gamer? I try demos out so I do not get stuck with a crappy game. If the demos crap the game is crap. They just want to make more money period.Posted at 1:56PM on Apr 17th 2010 by jon

ok i want to just make you aware that its easy to take apart a ps3 or an xbox 360 and insert a mod chip. also if you go onto any torrent site ul see that the console piracy is rampant and if not worse in some cases. seriously this silly justification that pc piracy is to blame for poor games ports, now charging for demos and companies going console only is insane. yeah sure ppl will pirate ul never stop it as ppl will always find a way round it but remember that there is and always will be a growing community of loyal pc gamers (myself inc) who pay for games and are getting pissed of when having payed for games the restrictions mess up our gaming experience. like crysis warhead, i now have a useless copy as my installations ran out as it only let me install it three times even though i payed full price for it, gta4 runs like a bag of crap and actually keeps crashing coz of the secure rom rootkit anti piracy [#@!?]e. I know this as ive actually cracked my legal version just to stop it crashing.
what they are doing is like what the army do to a soldier that cant keep up. they punish the whole squad for one man slacking trying to make the pack hate the man. often the pack will hate the man but the clever ones can see that the institution is at fault and are unfair. punish the man sure, but not the rest of us.
seriously ppl think
evil is allowed to prevail when we say "its ok its just a business practice"Posted at 8:06PM on May 26th 2010 by Ace