[Queen of Spades]

This here, is the thread to release your concerns about how the Crytek marketing of Crysis 2 has been over the last 18 months, and especially the demo which has set off this tidal wave. I myself, will do my best to go into detail about the demo dilemma and the underlying pent up frustration with marketing as a whole.

If you have been searching for PC or PS3 footage at all, think again. Have you been looking for those DX10 to DX11 comparison screenshots? Sorry, think again. Over the past 18 months of Crysis 2 and its developmental process, the PC and PS3 platforms have not seen a single frame of video or a single pixel of a screenshot. The Crysis 2 marketing has been solely fixed on the Xbox360, which has been eroding trust away at the community's faith in Crytek bringing a successful multiplatform game into the market this March, 2011.

Crytek has failed to fulfill their promises of a beta for those of us that signed up when this website launched. Instead, they released a sly "tech test", exclusive to the Xbox360. While we understand the need for a beta on the consoles, many potential customers are being turned away by the neglection of the PC / PS3 markets.

The recent exclusive Xbox360 multiplayer demo has resulted in a huge uproar, and not without good reason. Throughout the entire developmental process of Crysis 2, the PC and PS3 fanbase have yet to see or play it in any way. Throughout all this, all the community has seen is Xbox360 videos, Xbox360 screenshots, Xbox360 betas, and Xbox360 demos. Crysis 2 is supposedly a multiplatform game but the marketing would suggest to you that it is not. The Demo has set off a wave of frustration and disappointment that has been building up over the last 18 months and is well deserved.

In fact, recent polls suggest that the PC/PS3 fanbase consists of up to 75% of all potential customers. It is time that these voices be heard. The PC players are who have brought Crytek up to this point, and yet have been completely ignored. The PS3 fanbase has been left in the dark while the Xbox360 is basking in a warm glowing sun.

Some of the questions the community wants answers to:

Will we see every platform get a demo eventually?
Will the PC get DX11, dedicated servers, and modification support?
Will we ever get some PC/PS3 footage and screenshots?

The time has come for this game to finally be marketed like the multiplatform game it is. Most of the fanbase has lost faith in Crytek's ability to deliver the goods with Crysis 2. I myself, have canceled my pre-order due to a lack of information and beta/demo for the PC and PS3 versions of this game.

So go ahead, announce your concerns about Crysis 2 marketing on your platform here, and Crytek will do their best to get an answer to you. It is time that Crytek and EA woke up to their destructive and nonexistant marketing tactics for Crysis 2.

Knock Knock, Crytek.

[Vahpie]

This really is bad for the original supporters of crysis!! I don't know whether to Cancel my order or Say FU!!! one of them will happen!!!

1:Xbox 360 beta..
2:6vs6 multiplayer
3:Xbox 360 exclusive demo
4:Halo like jump around game play
5:prettier colors but less photorealism
6:they already have a relationship with M$
This is officailly a console game coming to PC!!
nothing to see here folks..

[Yama Pi]

I truly agree with all of your reasons Talon, especially with reason #4. Even made that thread about it (http://www.gamesas.com/forums/topic5623/page350.html) , to address its need to exist for the future of Crysis 2. Now look at what has happened, another Xbox 360 exclusive?

I just canceled my Pre-order too. For starters.

[JLG]

I've cancelled my pre-order aswell for the same reasons as you Talon, I just hope that they fix their mistakes or I won't be getting the game.

[meg knight]

I'm a PS3 gamer but I'm still gonna get it at launch since I dont care about MP.
I think you guys should blame EA, not Crytek.

[nath]

I am still planning on a release date purchase. but only because I have spend a few years hyped about this game and i would hate to have wasted that hype without actaully playing the game.

[victoria johnstone]

i think its very strange that nobody from crytek will say a word
about the pc
i mean really wtf are they waiting for 10weeks away and NOTHING
are the admins on this forum just ignoring us and not saying a word about it to the higher ups or what
we are the community we arent happy if they want to make money make us happy

[Taylah Illies]

I was very excited when Crysis 2 was first announced. I was even considering pre-ordering the game and I have never pre-ordered anything in my life. Still, what was certain at that point was that this was going to be a launch date purchase. Since then, I have endured more and more disappointing news. The switch to a closed generic city setting was very worrying, but I had faith in Crytek and I was willing to compromise. Later I hear about only 6 vs 6 players in multiplayer, no vehicles in multiplayer, no lean, no prone, and less control over suit functions among other things. My confidence in Crytek was shaking at that point, but still, this was going to be a launch date purchase. I was having my doubts, though.

The announcement of the beta came around, but it was an Xbox 360 exclusive. This was angering, but I decided to listen to the excuse of it being to test the online. Maybe the PC version doesn't need testing, but then why didn't the Playstation 3 get the beta. Does its online not need to be tested? Anyway, I got over that and stuck with my plan of a launch date purchase. As time passes by, I see that only the Xbox 360 version is being shown. As the topic creator has said, the Xbox 360 demo is the straw that broke the camel's back.

It's clear to me that Crytek and/or EA don't give a crap about PC gamers. So why should I reward them with my money? Unless this situation is rectified, I'll be waiting until the game hits the bargain bin at $20 or less and even then I'd be reluctant to give my money to a company that so quickly turned its back on the fanbase that made them successful.

[Jade Barnes-Mackey]

Gone from release day to 'beware, could svck balls'. To much microsoft money dike svcking for my liking. I'm playing this by ear now. I'll be playing deus ex anyway.

[Anthony Diaz]

Too many other games to excited in, let crysis 2 die. Ps3 and PC players can ignore this 360 orientated tripe and we can all go play portal 2 together

Wouldn't be as bad if EA were pulling all the strings like activision did for infinity ward, but we all know from DICE and Bioware that it isn't the case.

Also, i'm assuming crytek just took nvidia's money and ran.

[Vivien]

Are crytek afraid of what the PC community will think of crysis 2 if they see the game before having to buy it? Is this a business move to try to cut losses?

What are your opinions on the matter?

My personal one is that microsoft is pumping them full of cash (remember that crytek have a 360 exclusive lined up soon), and this is more likely a spin off of that them being ashamed. Unfortunately, this news will have made crysis 2's name mud with PC and ps3 users disaffected. Instead of multiplatform, all they've done is changed to 360.

Meh, PC and ps3 gamers have got better games ahead. We'll be enjoying portal 2 and ps3 users will finally get the wonder of what a valve game truly is outside of crappy microsoft restrictions (free dlc, cross platform, more win) and hopefully get lots of mods too! We'll leave 360 users to their half baked crysis 2, and their nerfed version of portal 2.

[Blessed DIVA]

How many of these threads are we gonna make?

[Angelina Mayo]

264.5

[Vahpie]

How many of these threads are we gonna make?

As many as it takes. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

[Tikarma Vodicka-McPherson]

Whats worse is I got svckered in to spending $900 to make sure my PC was Crytek-ready, but it does not even matter anymore because it will be a damn ass **** xbox port to both the PC and PS3. Spent two years hyped like crazy for this game, 2000+ posts, but it isnt worth a damn.

Crytek has thrown so much **** at us that it I can't take it anymore. Crytek can shove the dung they call Crysis 2 right back where the idea was born unless this gets fixed very quickly. I am not paying up my PC dollars for a Xbox360 sponsored craphole. Doubt I will be posting much here anymore, it is not worth my time, especially when the idiotic 12 year old Xbox360ers that don't know how to properly write their own language come on here January 25th and of course, will probably bich about everything with no good cause because they wasted their last two weeks allowance on this game. Oh wait, they got it for free. Too bad, they are probably too spoiled and will bich about it anyway.

[brenden casey]

Whats worse is I got svckered in to spending $900 to make sure my PC was Crytek-ready, but it does not even matter anymore because it will be a damn ass **** xbox port to both the PC and PS3. Spent two years hyped like crazy for this game, 2000+ posts, but it isnt worth a damn.

Crytek has thrown so much **** at us that it I can't take it anymore. Crytek can shove the dung they call Crysis 2 right back where the idea was born unless this gets fixed very quickly. I am not paying up my PC dollars for a Xbox360 sponsored craphole. Doubt I will be posting much here anymore, it is not worth my time, especially when the idiotic 12 year old Xbox360ers that don't know how to properly write their own language come on here January 25th and of course, will probably bich about everything with no good cause because they wasted their last two weeks allowance on this game.

^ I'm with this guy.

[Kayla Keizer]

Whats worse is I got svckered in to spending $900 to make sure my PC was Crytek-ready, but it does not even matter anymore because it will be a damn ass **** xbox port to both the PC and PS3. Spent two years hyped like crazy for this game, 2000+ posts, but it isnt worth a damn.

Crytek has thrown so much **** at us that it I can't take it anymore. Crytek can shove the dung they call Crysis 2 right back where the idea was born unless this gets fixed very quickly. I am not paying up my PC dollars for a Xbox360 sponsored craphole. Doubt I will be posting much here anymore, it is not worth my time, especially when the idiotic 12 year old Xbox360ers that don't know how to properly write their own language come on here January 25th and of course, will probably bich about everything with no good cause because they wasted their last two weeks allowance on this game.

I hear you man... I hear you... sad times we live in

[Rob]

greedy times we live in. For the funny factor valve should release steam sales figures on PC for valve games, just to give crytek the finger. (lowest estimates are <9m for left 4 dead, and half life 2 is at least <14m or so)

[Shelby Huffman]

I've canceled my pre-order. I might pick it up if there's a PC demo and it's really mindblowingly good. Otherwise, I have better things to sped my money on.

I talked with my friends who used to play Wars with me @ lan parties and they decided to cancel as well (9 more pre orders down the drain). Most of them won't re-purchase - not all of them liked crysis as much as I did. Crysis 2 was going to be our new lan game, but I don't think that's going to happen (not when games like SC2 and cs:s are still so much fun).

I'm not going to say that I'll never buy it - because... well I know I will, but my pre-order is gone. Maybe once the dust settles and the price drops.

Like The Comfy Chair, I'll probably be playing Deus Ex 3 anyway (along with Brink, when it comes out). I used to be super excited about Crysis 2. Now I'm disappointed, but it's not like this is the only game worth looking forward to.

[matt]

Saying you cancelled preorder not plan to "purchase" later. Trying to keep the poll legal, atleast.

[Thomas LEON]

I totally cancelled my Amazon pre-order. I'm going for Deus ex and IF I play this it will most likely be an illegitimate copy I'm afraid. I know the team worked hard on the game but EA, M$ and the higher ups at Crytek have screwed the pooch. I just built a new Sandy Bridge rig with a GTX 580 and now I feel like an asshole. I'm tired of having a next gen "platform" and being pushed to the side. Wtf Crytek? You built the game on PC yet you're letting the Xbox users benefit?

[Taylrea Teodor]

Some people here should get a life xD

[Eilidh Brian]

You people who aren't buyin anymore are a bunch of babies. PC is still going to be the best version regardless of any of those problems you listed. I cant wait to play this game on my PC.

Grow up you bunch of brats.

[Glu Glu]

You people who aren't buyin anymore are a bunch of babies. PC is still going to be the best version regardless of any of those problems you listed. I cant wait to play this game on my PC.

Grow up you bunch of brats.

It's the implication of how they've been bought out by microsoft. it hardly inspires confidence. it'll be best to wait now. I'm not saying i won't buy crysis 2 if it proves worthy, but they're definitely not getting a pre-order.

[Janeth Valenzuela Castelo]

You people who aren't buyin anymore are a bunch of babies. PC is still going to be the best version regardless of any of those problems you listed. I cant wait to play this game on my PC.

Grow up you bunch of brats.

It's more about making a stand against all the **** we put up with, I'm sure that alot of these people really wanted to play this game... and have been hyped about it for a very long time.

I am still getting this game, and I will be BUYING it on the day it comes out... but i have alot of respect for those who want to make a stand.