Piracy on PC is a given, i don't know how many more years it would take for you to realize that.

Full version will be pirated either way (this includes consoles and PC), and same pirates would buy the game for Multiplayer. You don't lose anything from this. And you know that, that's why i agree with some people that this is a marketing plot, of course you would never admit that, it would destroy you if you do.

Piracy on PC is a given, i don't know how many more years it would take for you to realize that.

Full version will be pirated either way (this includes consoles and PC), and same pirates would buy the game for Multiplayer. You don't lose anything from this. And you know that, that's why i agree with some people that this is a marketing plot, of course you would never admit that, it would destroy you if you do.
Wow.It staggers me that you think this is a marketing ploy.They spent 4 years on this.They have put in their blood,sweat and tears in this game.Do you actually think they would sacrifice all that for a marketing ploy.And moreover even if they had to do somekind of a marketing ploy,they would have released a freakin DEMO,which they are.The PC Multiplayer demo is coming soon.

I just went to see what they are saying about it.
Intelligent people say that they will wait for the final release, because this is an obvious beta-tester release with many errors.
One guy asked how he can play the multiplayer because every time he try to make an account it says "account creation unsuccessful"... and here is when I stop reading because it was too much laugh.

What I do believe is that some guy will not work for any game company ever.

About piracy, consoles are the problem. The biggest piracy market is the consoles. On PC you can stop it just making the multiplayer part a blast, then everyone will want it and buy the game. For example, in Argentina 90% (if not more) of the console games are pirated but is less than 30% of the PC games. You have almost the same amount of PC able to run a modern game compared to the amount of consoles that can run the same game. In other countries this is worst, and there are some European countries where the consoles are 100% pirated and PC around 80%.
What I mean, if you really want to stop your game to be pirated, don't make it for consoles.

Well, don't blame the PC community. Console games get leaked way before release too. Just look at the last two Halo games. They were both leaked in the summer before their release. If you want to pin the blame on someone, pin it on the employee that leaked it. A developer beta build of a game is not something that just appears on torrent sites
Still a mystery, how the beta" build was the one leaked? But, none the less its a tragedy

I'm not gonna download it because i don't want a low quality spoilers and... i'm already preordered a Limited edition (nano edition is not available for me)

So Crytek, my support is for your company!

=)

To prove my support and to counter such a travesty to your efforts. I ordered from my provider two more Limited editions of Crysis 2 and one Nano Edition for the sake of any additional support. (Though most likely, I'll just give the two Le's and keep the first pre-order and nano for myself )

Any news about the situation?

Hello Crytec
If you bring out the demo tomorrow, there will be no problem.
Btw: What is a fps without online gaming!

I will buy Crysis 2 anyway!

Grz from Holland

Any news about the situation?
No new developments, there surely on it..

Heh, I wish I could buy lots of limited and nano editions like you, Black Angel :<

Any news about the situation?
No new developments, there surely on it..
Yeah,they better get a handle on the situation.Me and my couple of friends just pre ordered 2 nano,8 limited and 2 standard editions:)ALL HAIL CRYTEK,MAY THEY COME OUT OF THIS PREDICAMENT UNSCATCHED:)

This better get's resolved soon, , for Crytek !

It's really awful
But I'll buy Crysis 2

I hope we get some information about this soon. About who did this.

Don't worry every true player will wait on original version of the game. I will wait for sure.

Sad to hear. However I think this was a stupid thing to do (Posting this on the website) Because most people didn't know and now the WHOLE web site knows that the game is up there and playable for free. I think it wasn't a good decision to post this but.. Don't worry.

Anyone expect a delay to come put of this?

Have seen unprecedented support in the community for Crytek and their hard working team since this broke. The people who wait and enjoy the final full product in all its glory will be the winners....and so will Crytek.

I tjink the main problem is that it seems the DRM masterkeys have been leaked with the game as well, so that means it should be very easy to pirate the game once its out, at least thats what i heard, i hope Crytek can still prevent that

I think they are using a different masterkey for the retail one and used a old one for the early builds so if a old one is found it doesnt work with the retail version of Crysis 2.

This is the first time I have ever been angry at the news of a leak. I have never and will never pirate a game. I can see that the support for Crytek is huge and this unfortunate event will unify the community. The best thing now would be to hurry out the beta so that gamers can play it while waiting for the release.
There are some positives in this. I was going to buy the standard edition but now I am going to order the limited edition.

Keep up the good work.

Hi everyone i registered in gamesas just to give my opinion in this thread.

What happened to Crytek is really awful i think everybody agree with that. What reaaaally makes me angry is what Mr Cry-Nick is saying " Piracy will always damage pc gaming".
What the hell? You guys already began throwing rocks on pc gamers? We're not even responsible for this leak since its an internal problem INTERNAL SECURITY PROBLEM MR NICK. then instead of throwing stones on pc players find the person responsible of the leak.
I don't understand why Crytek and EA can't take their responsibility of what happened. It's an employee or someone in charge of developping something that leaked this version. So EA should increase the security process.
And please MR Cry-Nick many games were leaked a way before their launch, assassin's creed the first, halo 3, half life 2 etc.... And not only in PC. Please don't use this stupid excuse to say that pc gamers are baaaaaaaaaaaaad ... Steam is doing nearly 1 billion dollars of revenues ... So just stop this crap about piracy because all platform are subject to piracy.

And really i've never seen pc gamers such reactive to a leak and to support a developper all the comments on the sites says to support crytek and we all will.

edit: you can crush the leak effects by getting the beta out

INCREASE YOU SECURITY !!!

Ugh.. bad news :/ So how did it leak out? Was it from an un-protected server or something?

I have pre-ordered the PC Limited edition a long time ago

I don't see why the game could be delayed because this problem have a simple solution within the time until release, in the case that the masterkey is compromised.

And for the game, as of what I had read many people have problems, visual or gameplay, so for a lot of people was a waste of time and bandwidth. Cheers to them, next time think about this.

And for the piracy, don't worry about. We all know the game will be pirated but not a single pirated copy can be used on multiplayer. Every single player that love the multiplayer side of the game will buy the game.

What a game company can do to avoid piracy is give additional content after release as free DLCs. As the game is already bound to a key and to an account you can bound the DLC to that specific key/account pair, and if someone want to crack that will have a hell of problems. Eventually it will be cracked, but at that time you'll be releasing more content and probably a new game.

I dont care if the demo is delayed.Let them work on final retail game and rectify any loophole.The entire PC community is supporting you Crytek.