Crytek going multi-platform due to rampant Piracy

In an interview with PCPlay Magazine, CEO of Crytek; Cevat Yerli has revealed that they longer will remain PC exclusive. The rampant piracy of Crysis and the high-development costs have forced the german developer to this decision. Full quote below:

Cevat Yerli: We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy.  To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.

Epic Games Headed to Steam?

According to the official Steam forums, Epic games may be headed to steam to distribute their titles via Valve’s content delivery service. A curious user was fiddling with clientregistry.blob and found what appears to be a key related to Epic Games. Quote from the forum post:

in my opinion “EPG” is a shortcut for “Epic Games” and all the games included in the subscription has “system” current working directory ( which can be sings of UT engine )

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EA: “We consider the people at Take-Two, and the studios and IPs, as diamonds”

The EA Acquisition bus is still going, with their recent buyout offer to Take-Two, things have gotten more interesting. However, with this quote, looks like we’ll be seeing a fitting end to the Take-Two story soon enough.

“We consider the people at Take-Two, and the studios and IPs, as diamonds,” he told the audience at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference.

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