» Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:26 am
Although this could be a marketing strategy, I don't think it will really affect Crysis 2 sales on PC, after all, Crysis 2 sold Over 3 Million Copies on PC, just being a singleplayer game with a somewhat good unsupported Multiplayer, Crysis 2 has a awesome singleplayer with a Excellent Multiplayer mode.
Again, with leak or no leak people would still pirate the game, but with the leak, everyone who would have pirated the game is playing the leaked version and possibly missing some cool features of the final build, so they end up quitting and don't pirate the final build when it's released, or they get excited and pre-order the game
I believe since the leak, the pre-order amount has increased, both from pirates and non-pirates.
However it's difficult to believe it can be a marketing strategy since instead they could have just released a working demo of the first level and MP with 2 maps