Crysis expansion announcement soon?

By Robert Purchese Published 2 June, 2008

Crytek too busy to do any patches.

Crytek has told its fans there will be no more patches for Crysis because it has its hands full making something that "will be appreciated by the community".

Word appeared in the first official monthly update, where the developer said sorry and promised more information on its secretive project "very, very soon".

"At this time, there almost certainly will not be a patch 1.3 delivered for Crysis. We are aware that this news will disappoint many of you, and we would like to apologize profusely," said Crytek.

"There is a good reason for this and we hope you understand when you hear more about the reasons why in the very, very near future. Please realize this was an extremely difficult decision, but please do know that we are listening to your comments and are making more consistent community support a high priority.

"We are confident that the things we are working on will be appreciated by the community, and we hope for your continued support."

Earlier this year Crytek apparently filed a trademark to protect the name Crysis Warhead, adding to its Crysis Wars and World In Crysis stable of names. Publisher EA was unavailable for comment.

Crysis is a shooter where you trek through jungle into the heart of a hostile alien-populated area, using your futuristic super-armour to lift up vehicles and behave like a superhero.

It scored well but struggled to sell bucket-loads, resulting in Crytek blaming piracy and vowing to drop its PC-exclusive focus in the future.

Head over to our Crysis review to find out more.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • sargemat #1 4 years ago

    God I hope so. Just finished this at the weekend.

  • hiddenranbir #2 4 years ago

    I hope it's PC exclusive.

    Hehe.

  • smoison #3 4 years ago

    Put Co-Op in it!

    Its the only thing that would make me go back to it.

  • Wyrm #4 4 years ago

    Screw the patch, just release an expansion! Classic form from EA.

  • monkie_king #5 4 years ago

    Surely anyone interested in Crysis will have bought it and finished it by now, so another patch is a bit redundant anyway?

  • mkreku #6 4 years ago

    I can't believe they release a game that will run well on 0.2% of the computers on earth and then blame piracy for the game not selling..

  • IneptPercy #7 4 years ago

    I have to say my PC ran it nicely and after all I sent on the PC to run it £25 for the game didn't seem bad.

    From that for people I know there is 3 copies to every 1 original so if you expand that it will have had a huge impact on sales.

  • Buran #8 4 years ago

    mkreku: your criticism has no sense. If the game can only run in a small portion of the gaming PCs, why is so popular in ilegal p2p downloads?

    I played the game throught four times, the fisrt in a 7800, then HD 3850 and the last ones in a 8800 GTS 512, and even if the games is as betters as the power of you hardware.

  • rudedudejude #9 4 years ago

    Out of about 20 people who play this, I don't know one who has bought it legitimetly.

    Single player only, torrents do the job.

  • CARL05 #10 4 years ago

    Blamed its lack of sales on piracy?
    The real reason is probably due to it demanding about 8GB RAM and 2 NVidia 8800GTS' running in SLI if using Windows Vista!
    ...otherwise I may have bought it.

  • ChrisOTR #11 4 years ago

    I for one bought it legitimately. And loved it, even on quite low graphics settings.

    Pissed off at the "Screw the patches, just do an expansion pack for it" line of thought :(
    Edited by 1 at 02/06/08 @ 13:29

  • Nithron #12 4 years ago

    @Buran: And your comment doesn't make any sense unless you assume that everyone who downloaded the game managed to play it properly. Everyone knows the system requirements are astronomical, so a lot of people probably just downloaded it to try it out, knowing full well it would never actually work on their PC. Who wants to pay for a game they know isn't gonna work properly?

    Also, aside from anything else, I don't think making the highest graphics settings only accessible on Vista did much for their sales either.
    It was totally arbitrary as well; You can actually just mess with the game files and make the maximum settings work on XP, with better performance. They were just sucking up to Microsoft.
    Edited by 1 at 02/06/08 @ 13:43

  • FlamingCarrot #13 4 years ago

    PLEASE no aliens! It kills the games fun factor.

  • Buran #14 4 years ago

    Nithron: I'm agree with your opinion about the "Very High " settings "only avaliable on Vista", this was a bad marketing maneuver because as we all known all effects "under Direct X 10" escept object motion blur and subsursface scattering works nicely in Windows XP under DX 9.

    But, at the same time, piracy has no excuse: THERE IS a demo to try if the game works on our systems. The players which have been downloading the game via p2p are pushing the developers to adopt nocive anti-piracy technics like in Bioshock which at the end are very bad to legitim purcharsers.

  • YourMessageHere #15 4 years ago

    First, as others have said, making this so high in the SysReqs department might have seemed like a way round piracy (if they can afford the hardware they'll have no problem buying the game) but is a great reason why people were reluctant to part with cash. Second, this is far from the first game that has been diabolically supported by devs and publishers; Far Cry's patches were pretty lacking too IIRC, and EA are very good at failing to patch adequately. My flatmate loved Far Cry so he bought Crysis (him actually buying games is rare), and was highly disappointed both by the game and the later lack of support. He has therefore vowed never to pay for a Crytek product again, just as he has with other firms in the past, preferring to download and deny them their money in exchange for the poor products and service he feels he has received from them on occasions when he has parted with cash.

    I don't think this is particularly unusual behaviour. Now multiply that out and perhaps Crytek's moaning about piracy can be seen in a more appropriate context: if they want people to pay for their games, give them their money's worth. Whether that's a properly finished game or patches that fix problems properly and do what players want, the company must deliver or risk this sort of response in future. By basically going "fuck you, customers, we're busy" you hardly engender good will and an inclination to be nice to the company, do you?

  • Nithron #16 4 years ago

    YourMessageHere hits on a big problem concerning piracy: it's hard for people to feel guilty, and very easy for them to justify pirating software, if they perceive the companies as treating them badly. Like for example putting ridiculous copy protection measures on their products, or providing poor after-sales support.

    Also Buran: Noboby's pushing anyone into anything. If game developers really are looking at the number of people on p2p sites downloading their games and assuming that every single downloader is one lost sale, then treating their legitimate customers like crap as a consequence, that's their own fault for acting irrationally, quite frankly.

    And lastly, there's plenty of incredibly well-selling games on PC, and their developers/publishers aint whining about their sales being obliterated by piracy, are they? Valve almost exclusively make games for PC and they're doing damn well, despite their games being all over the p2p sites(No, Steam doesn't stop piracy.)

    I aint advocating piracy, and it obviously does cause a fair old amount of lost profits, i'm just playing devil's advocate here and explaining that you can't just assume everyone downloading your game would have bought it if Bittorrent had never been invted, and that probably, this game's sales were not so shite just because of pirates.

  • Buran #17 4 years ago

    But the sales from BF2 were high even after the annoying post-launch support. You could argue that the Crysis mp don't worth the pay, but recent mp titles as Quake Wars (which I like a lot) or UT III had poor sales.

    So, then the main reason for a lot of people to not buy Crysseems to be that "is too easy to piracy" and "don't work on very high with AAx4 in my desktop". What would be the developement politic from Crytek then? They want to deploy shooters with stunning technology, which clearly had a price.

    My main worry about Crytek going to multiplataform is that: the other developers are too lazy in terms of technical improvements. UE3 games don't look as good as Crysis or S.T.A.L.K.E.R., graphically COD 4 sucks -even the two years old BF2 can show maps eight times larger-, and companys as Blizzard or Valve are oriented to the mainstream in the system requirements department. I don't want that the quality standards in visuals or physics in PC to be dictated by the hardware limitations of the consoles with 512 MB of RAM.

  • Meho #18 4 years ago

    Damn, and to think that I just yesterday uninstalled Crysis from my computer... Oh, well, I'll perhaps even buy new hardware by the time the expansion is out.

    As for the piracy and sales, hasn't Crysis sold more than one million copies or is this often repeated piece of data incorrect? I mean, more than one million is not bad, is it??? I for one downloaded the sucker the day the torrent was out and then when the game showed up in our stores (with the usual several weeks lag) was more than hapy to shell out for the speial edition. Crysis is a game as if made for me alone: challenging but easy enough, reasonably open-ended but with a solid '80s action flick story, graphically slick but not lacking in gameplay. Good save system as well. It is a much more convenient experience than Far Cry (that I love but can not just glare over its obvious problems) and I really feel that the abnormal system requirements did a lot more to damage its sales than piracy.

  • IneptPercy #19 4 years ago

    I think there is a huge thing with people thinking specs need to be higher than they really do.

    I have a reasonable gaming PC (£600) and it runs just fine, you don't need to spend £2000

  • paketep #20 4 years ago

    Translation: "Fuck you, PC gamers. We want to make games for consoles. They sell more."

    They're certainly doing their best to alienate customers. "Yeah, we are working on a patch. Ohhhhh, no, not anymore. Sorry!".

    "Yeah, the specs are high, but we are going to support it for a long time. Ohhhh, not anymore. Sorry!".

    Way to go, Crytek.