Okay so why no announcement. Take a guess... Because 0,1% of cards support DX11
About 20% of people on steam have dx11 cards, and that's the demographic which represents cryteks target audience. So crytek have at least 6m users capable of playing dx11 games via steam alone.
Okay so why no announcement. Take a guess... Because 0,1% of cards support DX11 20% of gamers today have a dx11 enabled video card and this number grows exponentially every month. Last month it increased by over 3%, next month could be over 4%. At this rate, by summer's end, the number of computers with dx11 cards could be well over 40%!