After the last several days of seemingly relentless attempts to get in touch with someone from crytek or ea to give me a statement on this issue, I have FINALLY spoken to a human being at EA support. He said that it is a huge issue right now and approximately 75% of the games on the market (both ps3&360) are affected. It is in fact a bug/corrupt game file that the developers are working diligently to come up with a patch for. When I asked what kind of time frame we'd be looking at his response was "It could go live within a week.. But dont hold your breath" which isn't very comforting, but its something. I also asked about potential reimbursemant or compensation for this nightmare he said "Its possible all those affected could receive Crysis as compensation for the inconvenience.. But dont hold your breath" So there it is folks, lets just hope they fix it quickly.

Hope this helps you guys.. I know I feel better just having spoken to someone about it.. But the more I find out, the more I will post.

But just to be clear, they have not officially announced that they're working on anything for it because of the magnitude of this problem..

They said they addressed it in the updated 1.1 patch notes. Check it out. I can't confirm yet because it hasn't been released on Xbox 360.