Crysis Warhead To Sell for A Modest $30

With Crytek announcing their next game to be released so soon after the full-priced Crysis, many gamers were wondering whether the next installment would require them to fork over another fifty bucks to revisit the Crysis universe.

Well, Amazon.com and Gamestop.com have recently put up Warhead as costing a modest $30.

[Tacki]

You'd have many happy gamers!

I mean, that's half the price of your average next-gen game release. Heck, that's less than some DS titles!

[thereapersson]

While it won't stop piracy, at least it's a step in the right direction.

[Bolts]

It is generally cheaper to develop for the PC than the consoles, and Crysis isn't the type of games that cost 200 mill to crank out so this pricing make sense. In the PC world new games with a $30 price tag is quite common.

[kwicksandz]

Its only the most powerful graphics engine bar none. yeah i bet they can crank it out cheaper than DS games LOL

[ChrisGTR1]

im pretty shure the price dosent matter to piraters. theyll download it even if it was 5$. its just their way of logic. they wont pay for anything. music movies games software OS.

did you know that world of warcraft can be pirated? yea.. theres tons of pirate servers running right now that allow up to 1000 people at a time. pretty extensive.

[mepsipax]

why do these idiot publishers bother, use steam, I mean come on you can blame poor sales on piracy, a pirate is always going to pirate, that's why he's a pirate, the reason some console ports don't sell good, its because of the measures companies take to prevent piracy, I wasn't going to buy mass effect because of securom (thank god they changed it) oh and chris, OS? how the hell do you pirate OS, that's what I call an extreme pirate, most pirates just don't want to buy a game but an OS? thats a little extreme.

[Charmers]

The reason Crysis and Warhead are not using steam is down to EA, they also have a download service which naturally they want you to use. So they are hardly going to allow a competitor like Steam to offer their flagship PC title. Naturally the EA store is nothing but a complete con, they only let you download the game for a period of 6 months after that you have to purchase the game AGAIN unless you pay an EXTRA $7 to buy a "warranty" of up to 2 years.

[BattleAxe]

Since its on PC, the only way to sell any decent amout of software is to drop the price. PC gaming is on the way out. Thats why Crytek said that will no longer be making PC exclusive titles.

[Charmers]

Yeah because selling 1.5 million copies of a game hardly anyone can get the fullest out of isn't really a "decent" number /sarcasm Crytek are moving to multiplatform for one reason only "greed", there is nothing locking them into the PC format. You see this is the thing with PC developers they are free to do what they please, there is no MS or Sony there to FORCE developers to stay on a particular format. Make no mistake piracy had NOTHING to do with Crytek going multiplatform. Hell they even admit that the Cryengine is "multiplatform capable" so why do that if you originally never intended going on to consoles but piracy forced you ?

[Gam71]

Great.

$30 in America means £30 in Rip-Off Britain

That's $60US.

[BattleAxe]

1.5 million copies and this game has been out for how long?? MGS4 has sold over 3 million copies in less then a month. So why would Crytek want to develop exclusively for the PC? If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. That was the point I was trying to make.

[M337ING]

Because they care about more than just making money.

[snipermk0]

You probably don't know much about gaming I presume. Crysis was one of the most expensive project till date. They spent a cool $28 Million for the whole project..

[M337ING]

And they still made a profit.

Even it its true, they didnt spend anywhere near the $100 million that was spent on GTA4 or the $30 million on Killzone 2.

Most of the costs were due to developing the cryengine 2. Now that its done, all games created on it will be much cheaper, hence the lower pricetag.

[DaddyDC650]

You have to be pretty low on funds to pirate a 30 dollar game that features mind-blowing GFX and sure to be at least decent SP and MP.

@ M337ING, I was talking about the folks who plan pirating a 30 dollar game being low on funds. Not Crytek. Read slower next time.

[M337ING]

I don't think they're broke after 1.5 million in sales of their last game...

[M337ING]

My bad... :)

[Old Snake]

Is this an expansion or a new stand alone game?

[M337ING]

Stand-alone.

New campaign ala Half-life Opposing Force, a optimized graphics engine, a new multiplayer mode, and gameplay fixes, new weapons and vehicles.

Good deal for $30. :P

[TheIneffableBob]

Nice.
I might buy it now.

[Charlie2688]

SOLD!

XD

[DaddyDC650]

Just pre-ordered @ Amazon. No taxes and free shipping!

[brothersimon]

They need to go console exclusive, defeat piracy by no releasing on pc.

[Charmers]

Yeah because there is no piracy on the consoles is there ..... Oh wait there is. I was one of the 1.5 million that bought Crysis and felt royally conned out of my money for a pretty boring FPS that ran horribly even on my Quad with 8800gts and 3gbs of RAM.

I can assure you I will make a point of NOT pirating Crysis Warhead (it isn't even worth the bandwidth), I will also make a point of not buying it either. They would actually have to pay ME $30 to get me even bothering to play it.

Anyway I do hope our console brothers enjoy Cryteks first project on their consoles, you have lots to look forward too like horrendous bugs, horrible pop up and single figure framerates but just remember you ASKED for them.

[Avto]

30$ how nice of em' I don't think they can stop piracy, the only real way to be sure your game will not be pirated is to give it away for free and maybe you can put a lot of dynamic advertisement in it.

[fermcr]

Amazon has Alan Wake to come out October 1, 2008

http://www.amazon.com/Micro...

Is that true ????

[ForzaAzzurri]

I wouldn't care if it was $50, I'd still buy it. It's so funny how Crysis was the most pirated game of 2007 when most of the little nut chuckers probably couldn't even run it!