Dmitron said:
Crytek gambled and lost, it happens. Rather than blaming piracy, they should blame they're own lack of creativity, the cash thrown at them by hardware vendors desperate to push their next line of GFX cards, and not understanding what their target market wants.
exactly. they spend months/years of hyping the "graphics only highend pc will be able to play" and then they act suprised that this hype backlashed.
graphicwhores would have bought the game anyway, dont you think ? gameplay always played a second role in the previews/hype/interviews..... so is it really suprising that people thought gameplay would also play second role in the game ?
farcry/crysis has fans not only because of the graphics but since its gameplay is refreshingly different from your average shooter (well aside from crysis ending).
from the interview:
PC Play: One of the great things both about Far Cry and Crysis is that there are nearly limitless possibilities for getting through a level. Could you tell us if there are going to be some changes or advances in the sequel regarding that gameplay style?
Cevat Yerli: That has not be decided yet, I cannot really comment on any sequel of future iterations of Crysis.
they arent freaking decided yet on providing the gameplay their fans love ??? how ignorant/stupid is that ? i mean if i were making interviews i d sure as shit tell my fans that of course they will get the gameplay they love in future products too .....just X times better (which would hopefully be the case but even if i was lieing i d claim so).
to me it looks like cevat actually believes himself that people only buy their games because of movie-graphics and doesnt even realize thats not what made farcry/crysis stand out at least partially in a flood of mediocre (SP) FPS.
well, maybe multiplatform is good for one thing, since crytek cant really improve graphics anymore upon crysis when they aim for xbox360/ps3 games too.... MAYBE, just maybe Mr. Yerli realizes there s other things that *could* make crytek games stand out, they are there.... he just didnt notice em yet. (and since he himself apparently didnt, how should the mainstream recognize it ?)
then again , i think the chance is alot higher that they ll simply aim for CoD/Halo clones..... if it isnt movie-like graphics, it must be movie-like story & freedom (or lack of), right ?
another thing that striked me as hilariously stupid on cryteks part (and smart on nvidia s part) was making DX10 the default thing when playing with vista, or artificially enforcing dx10 for certain things (like having physics /time of day in multiplayer)
i cant count how many people i seen bash crysis because it ran lacklustre on their 8800 card ..... when they were told to right click crysis, select "play DX9" everything worked fine and they became happy gamers. and its not like they lost anything from going dx9. custom made configs proved shortly after release that dx10 is a load of bullshit and the only things that it has over dx9 are noway worth the 25% or more FPS drop .
(might be less with some new beta drivers i heard, didnt try it out yet)
really good advertisement there when people with 8800 cards complain about shitty performance in forums , which wouldnt have been a problem if they made dx9 default and dx 10 merely an option (like other games handle it).
maybe cevat should piss off and let one of his smarter brothers take over cause crysis suffered the most from bad marketing, not piracy.
heck look at the codex, this thread had 3-4 posters who bashed the crap out of crysis a few months ago and now actually say its a flawed, but fun game. this thread has 3-4 posters who might say the same in another few months when they have a better pc.
can you blame them ? they marketed the game as a graphicswhores dream for nvdias most loyal customers ..... would maybe have looked different if they marketed it as an actual game (or slowed down on the hype shit in general, and for example spent those 4-5million wasted on launch parties.... into things like.... well getting a half decent setting/story and a longer campaign )