An interesting, and compelling, opinion piece on the impact of piracy on the PC Gaming market.
MP1st talks to Crytek about Hunt: Showdown's success, future title updates, inspiration behind weapons and more.
Crytek gives an update on their new Crysis game, confirming that it's still in development, with more to share down the road.
Yeah they really messed up by not adding the Multi-player to the Crysis Triogly because while the campaign was fun I really loved the Multi-player and couldn't wait to see what it was going to be like on current gen.
They could have dropped new maps and DLC and fans would have bought it up... -But they dropped the ball and did just the Campaign's with no new content or story, which was just crazy.
Anyway still hoping Crysis 4 is the whole Chicken Sandwhich with all the toppings.... Can't wait.
That's awesome. So how long till the studio closes and everyone gets fired?
Immersed Gamer writes: "Frans Bouma just received a Cease and Desist letter from Crytek, developers of Crysis. Did he pirate their game? Or maybe he infringed on their copyright? What horrible thing did Bouma do to deserve this? Well, he modded in a photo mode so that people could take beautiful pictures and share them on social media."
"from his Patreon page" Uhhhh yeah.......Oh gee and I wonder why that was problem? You know where this goes there Filip or perhaps you are just not quite yet.
It's astounding how quickly someone uniformed will take a side of soulless company just because a modder might be making some pocket change.
For your information: He puts all of his camera mode mods on GitHub, completely free of charge. His Patreon is nothing more than a way to tip him some cash for his work.
He says so himself on his GitHub page:
I do this for fun, not profit, but can't create cameras for games I don't own. I've therefore setup a Patreon page which allows you to safely support my work".
Are you following "mastershredder", or are you not quite there yet?
I did some digging and from what I can see it's probably the "early access" releases of his mods only through Patreon that may have stirred Crytek to send the C&D. Apart from that his mods are indeed available free of charge through his GitHub page.
It’s a non-profit mod tho. It confuses me cuz modders can do things like completely overhaul the art assets of a game or add licensed cars, but adding a photo mode seems to get the cease.
Rarely do you see something with so much potential (Crytek) shoot themselves in the foot so many times.
Instead of sending a C&D Crytek should thank him, for this, because this will lead to more people buying and playing the game.
What he seems to forget is that piracy is bad on all consoles, not just PC. Developers can never escape piracy.
He isn't ignoring that fact. However, it is infinitely easier to pirate PC games than it is console games. No hardware modification is required.
Killzone 3 is already on torrent sites. PC gamers are not the only pirates. The version of Crysis 2 that was leaked is not the final build. Do some research chins.
How is it the pirates fault that an internal beta build of Crysis 2 was leaked early, that's like throwing money on the streets and frowning upon anyone that picks it up.
If PC sales of Crysis 2 are bad, then yea maybe one could argue this was the problem, until then no one knows what kind of impact it will have, people forget that its a buggy version and largely incomplete especially on the graphics front(a major selling point).
You know this isn't the first time this has happened to a major PC game, the last major leak went on to sell over 5 million copies and still counting.
Also the author should learn not to generlize PC gamers as pirates, the market is doing fine through legit paying customers.
cuz when pc gamer buy games they can actually do whatever they want too/in the game.