THIS JUST IN! Brand new fix for all your problems!
Step 1. Locate your instalation disc
Step 2. Throw it away
Step 3. Locate pirated version
Step 4. Play
Step 5. Kill Yourself

Thank you.

This game protection is biggest fu** up since Splinter Cell Conviction, you could play that game online with pirated version too, they failed at porting from consoles properly :3
I pity the fools.

Step five should be step one.

This doesn't help the people who didn't bother pirating the game the first time and paid the $60 for this "game"

Although I do feel sorry for people who just assume games are going to be good, pay $40-$60 for it, just to see it fail and then turn around and hear of pirates getting the game in a higher quality for free (sorry but the DRM just fails beyond belief, games shouldn't even have DRM if they have a single-player on PC because their going to get cracked no matter what)

This is why more and more people turn to piracy in my opinion, and this is why game developers are going to shift more towards consoles (even though their not immune to piracy either, it's just that most people are too worried about their K/D ratio in CoD instead of being concerned about what the firmware on their DVD drives are).

Like I always say, give people a quality game, show that quality in a demo, and then provide customers on all platforms with a quality service in-game with little hassle to setup (hint at DRM, a simple server-side activation code for multiplayer honestly is all that is needed) and provide excellent customer support, then there will be less of a need for piracy in my opinion

You do not want to point most of the development towards consoles (where did Crysis originate at again?), give the demo to consoles first (and then of course screw it up for PS3's), then port (which I hope was) the Xbox 360 game to PC, slap VERY few PC-specific options on it, and then have people pay the full $60 for what you call a "game". Can somebody say Black Ops Sequel? Maybe the EA logo on the Crysis 2 box might shift some of the blame off Crytek, but still why even have EA involved at all >.<

Also unrelated, but why take a first person shooter anyway and stick it on... anything but a computer? Also there isn't even a Mac copy either, but then again the focus of this game was clearly not towards making any computer play it nicely (don't you dare start on why Mac's don't deserve games or other bs like that).

was shocked when i saw today that the pirated version works for online play..
wtf
if i would have known that, i would have taken a pirated copy too..

was shocked when i saw today that the pirated version works for online play..
wtf
if i would have known that, i would have taken a pirated copy too..

After seeing the "Press Start to Play" and the (very) limited graphics option choices, that should of been a red flag there to people as to buying it...

Edit: I of course meant in the Demo :p

Why the hell I can't play on multiplayer?!?!?!

So crytek doesn't use server side activation for multiplayer? o.O

They thought that the DRM in their game would work?

Come on crytek. Sometimes i get the feeling that some games developers need to actually look up from their game to see what other games have done well. Bad company 2 never had this problem (did it even have offline DRM?) and i'm very sure you could have been able to get in contact with DICE about how they did it!

So crytek doesn't use server side activation for multiplayer? o.O
It wouldn't be as bad if the keys required would have some kind of key pattern (there's a word for that that starts with A) but it's so bad that any random string of alphanumerical characters can be used...

new update. Make sure you're logged in as administrator, and you can skip steps 1-4, just do step 5 and VOILA!