Crysis 2 leaked in its entirety. ffs.
greentooth
This is just horrible:Rock Paper Shotgun wrote:I have no words. Actually, I have some words- according to a thread of the Facepunch forums (which may or may not be deleted any second depending how the Facepunch server holds up), a developer build of Crysis 2 containing the full game, multiplayer and the master key for the online authentication has been leaked, and is currently freely available from all sorts of astonishingly illegal websites. This sounds like it might be a serious tragedy for Crytek. Crysis 2 was scheduled for release on the 22nd of March, so the leaked build could be dangerously close to finished. More on this as we hear it, and thanks to RPS reader James B for letting us know.
I don't know where to begin, this is terrible. I really hope Crytek makes it through this alright.
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Update edit: Killzone 3 is reported to have been leaked as well. Bad times for devs.
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They've got console releases too, those will probably make much more money. If it turns out decent I'll buy it for 360 anyway, this doesn't affect my decision at all, to the contrary, if people say the leaked build is really amazing I might even preorder
This time around it's a good thing they developed for consoles, so at the very minimum they can track a pirated copy, if pirated. Rather than that the impossible of finding maybe the source leak.
My condolences though to all staff who worked diligently on this promised title.
well first of all they have to be a massive cunt
from then on it's pretty easy
Oh well, leakers/pirates can burn in a sea of basement sweat and smegma.
I wonder was it a hacker or did some ass clown from their staff leak it.
Read that the leaked build does NOT include DX 10 or 11, is filled with unfinished assets and bugs and does in no way represent the finished product (duh) so at least the pirate assholes don't even get to see the eyecandy edition of the game, or experience it fully. Sucks that they got the master key to the online authenticator though.. Might mean that Crysis 2 has to be delayed so Crytek can write a new system to combat day 1 cracks
Most games are leaked and on pirate sites a few weeks before they come out anyway - its a fact of life. With so many people working in the production line getting boxes stuffed with discs, retailers, reviewers, etc. It's not really uncommon.
If it's a press build, it's likely tagged somewhere with an identifier that shows who leaked it.
The entitlement gamer of today would play an alpha and be super angry that the game is so buggy and sucks, and cancel his preorder after spending weeks blasting shit on the official forums
Stupid people are horribly vocal, and at least in regards to gamers, the majority
Happened to Half Life 2 just short of release, too, which didn't seem to affect sales.
But still
I just posted about it on Twitter. Someone instantly threw me a link.
Is it too early for Julian Assange jokes? *cringe*
Seriously, I hope the game does really well despite all this, and that people downloading it early want to slit their wrists dealing with massive bugs and issues from a pre-gold build.
I am not sure myself, but reading tha thread on facepunch, aparently it's a build back from January, not a gold build
Anyway, thanks all for the comments.
It is not nice seeing years of work out there like this, that is not how we meant you to have a first glimpse of the SP campaign.
HP: So it was leaked by someone in Crytek? That's seriously effed up
If you're looking for it, sure.
It's even worse when the forum of a game developer allowed it to be posted and be viralled all over the place especially since Facepunch is a magnet of these careless kiddo/slacker types. I'm hoping for the karma justice on those twittering warez-spreading parasites too...
Hboybowen - you are digging yourself a grave here. Sharing joy about an unauthorized release of software on a messageboard populated by industry professionals is going to earn you the [ASS] stamp. It is not good news.
Also, I hate when news companies tell EVERYONE about the leak. No one would really know about this leak had gaming websites and such just ignored it.
But that's the nature of the beast, I suppose.
imma punch you right in the baby makers you silly man!
Be interesting to see how Crytek handles this, and here is hoping the fans who really appreciated the first game (as well as the company) will hold of downloading and pay for the real game once it's released.
We can always hope right?
Anyone can tell you that having your own work over the past couple years be both leaked and widely distributed majorly sucks - it doesn't take a leak to figure this out... anyways, there are tons of places other than the dev studio itself that the leak has could've been originated from. Nothing good at all is coming out of this.
So, you see a woman get her purse stolen, you don't try to stop the thief because stealing has been around a long time and it will teach the lady a lesson about, what exactly?
What is the lesson one can learn here? Don't trust your employees? Don't send reviewers copies of the game? Don't trust people in general? Fuck giving shit out on PC because the worst parts of piracy happens on the platform?
The only thing likely to "not happen again.:thumbup:" is another Crysis game on PC.
Seriously, I can see why people have you on ignore
Agreed.
I was really really interested in it, which is why I'm worried - Crytek are one of the last AAA PC focused multiplatform developers, and they are really pushing games technology in great ways. If they stopped releasing to PC because of this it would break my heart.
Plus regardless of Crytek or Crysis, you know EA is going to take this as a massive lesson in why never to publish to PC.
You can ignore people? Sweet! *problem solved*
you could Preorder the PC version right now and make all your friends do it too....
im 100% going to buy Crysis 2 and this is pretty tempting...
is it wrong?
I bought the first game because I wanted to see how the engine was but I started playing the single player game and I really liked it.
Still, loved the first Crysis and will definitely buy this one too
And everyone who downloads this free version is going to brag to their friends about getting it early, making pirating seem that much more "awesome".
Piracy is wrong and there is no excuse for it. If you want something, go and buy it. Easy.
Im buying this on release day for PC and i hope enough people will do the same so that Crytek dont rethink their future support for PC.
@Hboybowen
Not cool man. Its prob. best to keep those sort of opinions to yourself when studios are closing all over the world and really talented people with families are losing their jobs over shit like this.
@thatnumpty
If you have worked for 2 years on a game and someone stole it from you a month before release, and then proceeded to gave it to the world for free, would that be wrong?