Crytek: piracy is a problem for PC exclusive games

Crytek, developer of acclaimed PC games like Far Cry and Crysis and the CryEngine, cries out against piracy of PC games. Crysis 2, the game that the studio is working on now and that is based on the latest incarnation of the CryEngine, will be released on PC, Xbox360 and Playstation 3. Crysis was a PC exclusive.

An important reason for this choice is of course that more platforms means a bigger potential audience. But there is another urgent reason to embrace consoles.

Crytek’s Director of Business Development, Carl Jones, elaborated on this in an interview in PC Play: "Licensing a PC-only engine was made difficult in the last few years due to the changing nature of the games market itself. Piracy hurt PC-only games in terms of sales figures, so publishers and developers moved away from making such titles. As a result, console middleware was more widespread than PC focused technology such as CryEngine 1 and 2 (…) but circumstances limited the quantity of licensees we signed up."