Crysis 2 Leak Not As Bad As First Thought

[RA92]

Frankly, I'm surprised people didn't rage over the fact that Crytek was pretending the leak was the PC community's fault and that we're getting the demo this late (in March) and pirate it anyway. Yes, I feel entitled to a demo at the same timeline as the console gamers, who're treated like a bunch of princesses. And I want to be treated like a princess as well!

Maybe this is just me, but if I were writing a novel and someone took the 2nd draft and published it for free without my permission, I'd be kinda pissed. The plot would make no sense, there'd be pointless scenes, and the character's names would change halfway through.

I like to think I'd have a bit of a right to get pissed off at the people who did it, then be happy when my actual fans didn't steal the unedited version of my manuscript.

Now, I don't...actually have any fans, and last time I checked, people weren't leaking anything I've written onto the internet.

But then again, what I write doesn't cost millions of dollars to make, market and publish...

Okay, my response might have come off as a bit disproportionate, but at the same time I'm tired of being treated like a criminal. And it's not just these guys. Look at Dice - how did they treat us for propping up their main franchise and for being the largest <url=http://www.mygaming.co.za/news/news/5549-Battlefield-Bad-Company-sales-strong.html>portion of the BFBC2's sales? By keepin BF1943 a console exclusive, obviously.

And this is not the first time that a game has been leaked way before its release. Remember HL2? That was leaked a year before its release. And how did the PC community react? By pulling together and supporting their favorite developer. And HL2 later went ahead and outsold Xbox poster child Halo. We as a community are a much more connected and empathic. But treated like criminals, anyway.

It was our platform that propped up Crysis. And we admired the developer who was willing to make a PC exclusive that would push the envelope of our hardware. And when the people you admire treat you like this when it was obviously their faulty security that caused the crisis in the first place, how are you supposed to feel?

I believe feelings run deep on this, and that usually impairs judgement. But anyway, something tells me we both agree that Homeworld was an awesome RTS title.

 

[Namewithheld]

It appears your powers of telepathy hold well.

And yeah, getting treated like a criminal gets damned wearing...hopefully acts such as this will hammer home the fact that we're not.