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Crysis 2 Leaked Over a Month Before Launch

Posted by Soulskill on from the airtight-security-there-boys dept.

iviv66 writes with this excerpt from Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "According to a thread on the Facepunch forums, 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." EA and Crytek have responded to the leak, saying that the illicit copy is incomplete and unfinished, and that "Piracy continues to damage the PC packaged goods market and the PC development community."

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  1. Obligatory.... by tanveer1979 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now thats a crysis

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    1. Re:Obligatory.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Looks like the game was released with "maximum speed."

    2. Re:Obligatory.... by infolation · · Score: 5, Informative
      I don't work for Crysis, but I know several 3-D devs and concept artists who've switched from film VFX to games and work for them.

      crytek keeps their workers in "company provided" living spaces

      Crytek Germany provide free accommodation to new developers who've relocated to Germany while they find their feet, and provide assistance finding private accommodation for longer term workers.

      to make them work longer

      Work longer hours, or work longer for the company? Quite a few of these people have to be persuaded to relocate from Crysis UK to Germany. Persuading people to relocate for a significant length of time requires carrots, not sticks.

  2. Astonishing by quiet+down · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...is currently freely available from all sorts of astonishingly illegal websites." So these websites aren't just illegal, they're *astonishingly* illegal! This changes damn near everything about my view of the story!

    1. Re:Astonishing by Urkki · · Score: 4, Funny

      "...is currently freely available from all sorts of astonishingly illegal websites."

      So these websites aren't just illegal, they're *astonishingly* illegal! This changes damn near everything about my view of the story!

      Astonishingly illegal web site will contain material that illegally violates copyright laws, with exploits that will first illegally violate your computer, and after sending spam will illegally violate other peoples inboxes, and after intercepting your web banking session will illegally violate your bank account, and after getting you your web cam and photo collection may illegally violate your privacy (which may or may not involve pictures of someone being violated, but as long as it's all legal, it's not relevant here).

      Sounds pretty astonishingly illegal to me.

      Better stick to just non-astonishingly illegal web sites, as they'll be mostly limited to copyright infringement.

  3. Remember the HL2 leak? by assemblerex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Valve went and changed the game substantially and for the better. I hope they take the chance to do the same to crysis 2, if they do (add more value) then no one will pirate the inferior version.

    1. Re:Remember the HL2 leak? by RogueyWon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The HL2 leak was of a build that was nowhere near ready. If I remember, Valve was somewhat guilty of having pretty heavily exaggerated how close HL2 was to being finished at the time. This doesn't in any way justify the leak, but it does explain why the game changed substantially and for the better - it wasn't really much to do with the leak at all. Crysis 2, on the other hand, has a release date that's not much more than a month and a half away. There's not much that can be done.

      There isn't really an upside to this one. The only way there could be would be if whoever in the supply chain is responsible for this leak were to say, trip up and fall out of a third floor window into a skip full of broken glass and dogshit.

    2. Re:Remember the HL2 leak? by WankersRevenge · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Bill Bryson wrote (and I'm paraphrasing here) in his book "At Home" that often times aristocrats held unreasonable expectations of their servants because they had never preformed the work that the servants did.

      I'm reference this because people who wrap themselves up in the ideology of "internet freedom fighters" probably don't understand the process of creating something and how debilitating it is to have that work released before it is ready. Especially after years of hard work and personal sacrifice went into it.

      I don't expect you to understand because I'm not talking about laws and rights and the inherit freedom of digital bits - I'm talking about what it takes to be a good neighbor.

  4. Re:Just fantastic... by RogueyWon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Incomplete" almost certainly doesn't mean "the last two levels aren't in there". Not when the game is this close to release. Games development doesn't work that way any more. What it probably means is that "the final 20% of the serious bugs that we needed to eliminate before launch are still in there". In other words, if this differs from the version that gets submitted as gold master, any differences will be a pronounced negative and will be the kind of annoyance that will just put people off from buying anyway (and create the worst sort of pre-release publicity).

  5. The whining just gets more annoying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    EA and Crytek have responded to the leak, saying that the illicit copy is incomplete and unfinished, and that "Piracy continues to damage the PC packaged goods market and the PC development community."

    Then just hurry up and die already. Or pull out of the PC market.

    What's that? You still make money hand over fist so you can't justify pulling out to your shareholders? Well fuck me, how unexpected.

  6. Re:It's a trap? by Ansoni-San · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... This is a ridiculously huge blunder for such a huge company and they've pointed fingers at piracy before ...

    Finally, someone talking about the main point. Exactly. This has nothing to do with piracy at all; along with any damage caused. They fucked up, plain and simple.

    The tone of their response to the leak just sounds like posturing, by a management that may be looking to either impose some hair-brained DRM scheme, or more than likely *hang on to their jobs*. Ridiculous.

    It's this new breed of management that is turning the PC gaming platform to shit and FUD.
    Piracy is like the new "the dog ate my homework" for the 21st century.

  7. Re:Just fantastic... by orphiuchus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its missing all ground textures and a lot of other textures, it doesn't run on any setting other than minimum, the screen constantly flickers when you play, you cant customize visuals, it crashes when you load a level for almost everyone, and the list goes on. Its a earlier beta than people are reporting.

    If you download and play this you aren't playing crysis 2. This version is quite old. It shouldn't hurt sales.