Posted by sara [Wednesday, 30 April 2008 - 13:03]
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PC Play has a new interview up with Cevat Yerli of Crytek. The man is expressing their issues with piracy and also announces that Crytek will no longer put out PC exclusive titles.
PC Play:How do you estimate the current state of the PC
gaming industry? Some say that it's only a matter of time when it's
going to finally die-off, the others say that "the big one" is only
getting its comeback pace. Considering Crysis is a PC-exclusive title, what do you think of its
market reception and its future? Skeptics would say that it's pretty
risky going PC-exclusive with such a high-profile title.
Cevat Yerli: It is certainly. We are suffering currently from
the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts
in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I
believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC
Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games
on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I
believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.
