One fantastic update would be for LAN capabilities.

I am not disappointed in the game at all. The multiplayer is super duper and the campaign is far better than most story modes coming out these days. My one request would be to update the game to make it LAN capable.

It makes sense business-wise. The biggest reason I can think of and hope for is that MLG would pick it up in a heartbeat. All the games on circuit right now are extremely slow paced compared to past years. Everyone I have talked to is tired of watching or playing MLG Reach. Crysis 2 is so fast paced and exciting to watch that it would bring a whole new fanbase to MLG and the same for Crytek.

LAN would also be a lot of fun just to be able to play it. In any game, LAN is infinitely smoother than online multiplayer. It would bring an entirely new aspect to the Crysis 2 community.

I agree 100 percent. Then everyone would see who was the best at this game. And this game would have NO bugs. Imagine that.

lan would not fix all the bugs.

Maybe not but would allow more people to play multiplayer

LAN would rock, didn't notice the game didn't have it at first - so I will be advising my LAN buddies to avoid this game for another reason.

LAN is not needed. Why put in a feature that less than 0.1% of buyers will take advantage of? It's an anachronistic feature from the days before ubiquitous high speed internet, and if people refuse to buy it because of it, then they'll be such a tiny percentage of sales it'll make no odds.

I mean, seriously, who the hell lugs their TVs and 360s/Pcs round to a friend's anymore? Only the ultra-hardcoe who are such a tiny part of the audience that it probably isn't worthwhile doing the coding for it.

Games like CoD and Halo only add it because they expect to be part of the MLG circuit which requires it, and being part of that gives them nice amounts of free marketing. That's the only reason. Due to their dominance in that sphere, and Crysis being a lot more dynamic with suit abilities and not easily reducable to the "DMR/Famas only, same perks" formula MLG player thrive on in their stagnant, extremely narrow skill set, this wouldn't have a chance of being included in rotation, so there's no point.

Some of us can Drive - and some of us host LAN parties, seriously Left4Dead (1&2) with 8 people at a LAN party is so much fun, and some of us like to be social and have a drink or 2 with mates while we game......

I appreciate that, but not may people do this anymore. I prefer to game at home, and if i'm going out for a beer and seeing my friends, i'll go to a bar or a film or a restaurant, not play a videogame which I can do anytime. I've been gaming for over 25 years, but it's always been something I do when i'm stuck in the house, and the majority of my friends are not hardcoe gamers.

LAN gaming was always a niche, and it's now even more so. The vast, vast majority of people will not know 8 or so people in their vicinity with the same game and the will to meet up and LAN, or even the room needed. Even the people I know with this wouldn't be interested in a LAN party as they'd rather do something else than game when we meet up in the flesh.

The 1000 or so sales among the super-hardcoe they will have lost in total by removing features such as this will more than have been made up with the 100,000 extra sales among casual players by focusing on other elements, like bringing it to consoles.

The developers will be more than happy with the direction they took and doubtless couldn't care less about people like yourself not recommending to friends as a result. They've abandoned you as a market by choice, not incompetence i'm sorry to say, and issuing boycott threats to them is missing the point entirely.

No the lack of communication from the Mods and the piss poor state of the MP is imcompetence - I haven't boycotted the game, I have it and have loved the **** out of the campaign 3 times now. I just want the MP issues patched so I can really enjoy an extended session of gaming, but I have quite a large group of friends that are gamers and that actually respect my oppinion and have fun at LAN parties with games that support it, so when they ask "Should we get this for our night LAN party" I will say to them "No, it doesn't have a LAN function" and that will be the end of it....

And Steve, I've been gaming hard for 15 years, and LAN parties have generally been something me and my friends do several times a year, because we are social gamers that get sick and tired of the morons that have become the majority of online gamers - And the 1000 copies they lose to the people that won't buy it cause it doesn't have LAN will be dwarfed by the amount of people taking it back because the MP wasn't patched fast enough for their tastes. They may have got those initial sales, but to those people Cryteks reputation is already tarnished and they won't be buying Crysis 3, if and when it comes out.

If LAN is a dying element in gaming why are there 2 LAN bars in Australia (MANA Bar), with a 3rd opening soon. And I mean Bars, as in you can get beverages that have alcohol in them. This scene in Australia is on the increase, not the decrease. Social Gaming is Fun, Heaps of Fun.

So thanks for having and a Rant, but I still would have enjoyed LAN functionality, and apparently so would have others.

It isn't a rant, it's a fact, and not socially gaming doesn't make me a hermit (although gaming over Live with chat IS socially gaming believe it or not) it just means I just choose to do other things when I go outdoors instead - things a lot more social than staring at a screen.

3 bars in a country of over 20 million does not make a renaissance. LAN is a niche. Niches can be profitable for a couple of bars in a couple of cities, but not for a million selling developer. There's probably more S&M bondage clubs in the country, and that's hardly about to go mainstream is it?

Lastly you vastly and repeatedly overestimate how representative your opinion is. I find the game fine (MP menu music being the only issue I have, which can be turned off anyway) and so do the majority of people, it's just this forum is full of people who don't, but you're hardly effecting sales if you, the arch complainer, hasn't taken this back, then I seriously doubt "floods of people" are. You're the classic vocal minority acting like your represent the silent majority. Personally my opinion of Crytek has been highly raised by this after never playing a Crytek title before, and i'll be playing Crysis 3 just fine.

Some people are never happy. That's fine, but plase stop characterising yourself as the majority. An angry LAN player is in about the smallest demographic there is, and you repeatdly flooding this forum and derailing topics back to your niche tastes and opinions do not change the fact that what you and your friends enjoy and believe do not represent anyone but yourselves, and the game should not be tailored around you as a result.

The vast majority are happy with this, and don't mind waiting a few weeks for a patch (mainly because we aren't idiots and understand a patch involves a bit more than just ticking a box...)

Deal.

I hope you feel better now, I'm glad you've misunderstood to the degree you have.

Enjoy Ranting on the forum - I know I will.

1000 sales = 60,000 Dollars.

A lot of people still LAN, casual and hardcoe competitive.

I appreciate your assumed stats. It seems you are very practiced in skepticism.

Would it be so terrible to have a partnership with MLG and reap the benefits of opening a new market?

It's one aspect of a game. You don't have to play it but it would be a nice option to have.

You should see my mancave. I have LANs all the time. I constantly have 4 full setups at my house.

Your rants are worse than my trolls.

I don't like MLG, it's hypocritical, because they say they are all about skills and wins, but they always employ the easiest tactics to get kills.

1000 sales = 60,000 Dollars.

A lot of people still LAN, casual and hardcoe competitive.

I appreciate your assumed stats. It seems you are very practiced in skepticism.

Would it be so terrible to have a partnership with MLG and reap the benefits of opening a new market?

It's one aspect of a game. You don't have to play it but it would be a nice option to have.

You should see my mancave. I have LANs all the time. I constantly have 4 full setups at my house.

Your rants are worse than my trolls.

ITT: People who think they represent the masses, but don't, and need their entitlement issues sorting out.

LAN is dead. It's to today's network gaming what dial up is to broadband. Sure it has diehard enthusiasts, but so does CB radio. It isn't mainstream, it never was, and certainly never will be, and you do not represent anyone but yourself. Having 4 LAN setups at your house is irrelevent. I could have a dog fighting ring in my basemant - doesn't mean it's what people are crying out for.

Implementing it would be a waste of time, money and effort for all concerned, and pointless extra time onto the development cycle. And as said, MLG wouldn't be interested as the game isn't narrow in scope enough. Too many variable confuse their tiny, metagame obsessed, tactically stagnant BXR minds.

Why put in a feature that less than 0.1% of buyers will take advantage of? It's an anachronistic feature from the days before ubiquitous high speed internet, and if people refuse to buy it because of it, then they'll be such a tiny percentage of sales it'll make no odds.

Because MP is seriously flawed when you have to play it with the whole world!!! I have a 45dwn/10up connection and am stuck with an RED BAR almost every game.

If I throw in Black Ops (with Region Filter ON) I play people on the West coast, everyone has 4-5 green bars and the gameplay is excellent. With a player base 10x that of Crysis 2 server issues shouldn't exist.

The ability to play localy would be very cool, no lag what so ever.

Maybe the amount of people using LAN is small, without it being there to use that amount dropped to 0.

If Lan Will Take Care Of This Lag. Im Game.

ITT: People who think they represent the masses, but don't, and need their entitlement issues sorting out.

“Agreed.”

LAN is dead.

Really? What does that even mean? It might be in the minority though if that's what you mean.

It's to today's network gaming what dial up is to broadband. Sure it has diehard enthusiasts, but so does CB radio.

I don’t think people who use Dial up are enthusiasts…unless they really like that start up sound.

It isn't mainstream, it never was, and certainly never will be, and you do not represent anyone but yourself.

Well of course he’s representing himself and so are you. It’s called having an opinion.

Having 4 LAN setups at your house is irrelevant. I could have a dog fighting ring in my basemant - doesn't mean it's what people are crying out for.

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Truly we only have such setups at our house.

Implementing it would be a waste of time, money and effort for all concerned, and pointless extra time onto the development cycle. And as said, MLG wouldn't be interested as the game isn't narrow in scope enough. Too many variable confuse their tiny, metagame obsessed, tactically stagnant BXR minds.

I don’t think you know what metagaming means. Also adding lan to a game is pretty cheap, adding servers for a multiplayer game is slighty more expensive.

Also...

ITT: People who think they represent the masses, but don't, and need their entitlement issues sorting out.

Not including LAN on a console game is tight,its 2011 and ALL console games should have LAN,its just as important as the rest of the game.
Here are some games that should have had LAN:
GTA4
AVP
CRYSIS 2
BFBC2.
I for one love linking up 360's with my son in his bedroom,undead nightmare,far cry 2,the list is endless.
It all boils down to cheapness from the big money companies,i have also noticed that most DVD'S have less features to make us buy the blu-rays,hence,no LAN to make everyone buy xbox live!!!!!!!!!!!I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know this for sure but I think that LAN gaming is probably going lower down as far as numbers are concerned what with the surging amount of people that have Gold accounts on XBL.

I have a buddy that plays most of the game that I play and I would rather play with him on XBL than connect the two consoles together. Convenience is frikking awesome.

LAN gaming rocks. Allows you to throw a little gaming party. It's really a disappointment that most newer games are getting rid of the feature. It can't be too much harder to throw LAN capabilities on to an already online multiplayer game. It uses similar coding, just local. It svcks that a lot of the newer games are even ditching the capability to create your own game.

And yes, people really do bring their TV's or monitors over for gaming parties. I mean a big selling point with TV's these days is how slim and light they can be, seems like it's just making it easier for LAN parties.

Seriously, Stevolutionary or whatever the hell your name was. Try a little harder man, if that's at all possible. People that go on forums to trash talk with big words to get an ego boost are just pathetic. People enjoy LAN parties, just because you're some douche bag who wears all black living in his mom's basemant doesn't mean you have to ruin everyone else's fun.

Oh and I just learned recently that a holes that do that are called trolls. So ha, you troll bastard.

ME and my mates have LAN party's, so i wouldn't say its dead!

got to admit though Crysis 2 Should have a filtering option.