Crytek Says PC Gamers Pirate 20 Times the Games They Purchase
In a recent interview with IGN, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli says the vast majority of PC gamers pirate their games. He gives enormous figures of 15:1 to 20:1, which may or may not be true, at least for Crytek. However, as an industry, this number seems too large, yet reports of pirating Crysis specifically are numerous; not to play, but to test machines to see if they will run it.
Asked about online verification, Yerli stated that there will always be some way to crack the game or go around the system, and if not other problems can occur. The recent Mass Effect PC dilemma may hold back sales for publisher EA, but as of press time reports were not available for sales numbers.
Tags: Cevat Yerli, Crysis, Crytek, Pirating, Warhead
July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
What rot. I’ve hundreds of games (er, been gaming a while) and not one single pirate copy.
However, with Mass Effect not working for three weeks after I bought it whilst pirated copies where working fine, only my honest nature stopped me from getting a crack.
After three weeks of frustration, poor tech support and masses amounts of tweaking my system, game, hardware etc… the game suddenly started working for no reason after almost 10 re-installs.
Turns out the SecuROM program thought I had a pirate copy! You couldn’t make it up!
Anyway, it’s Russia and Asia that are responsible for most of the cracked copies and the copyright laws have no juristiction over there. I don’t know why devs/publishers are bleating to us as we’re not the source of the problem.