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I don't understand... Is it the source code only, or is it the entire game, sound assets, 3D-models etc included? | |
Gutted for Crytek... | |
Oh damn! If I am hearing this right it's basically the whole game? Released a month before it's release date! OH GAWD! | |
Someone's probably going to get fired and/or killed for this... | |
Let's hope they take the time to change the key before release, even if it means a delay. And this is speaking as someone who has been eagerly watching any Crysis news for over a year, and who had pre-ordered the game. Crytek deserve better than this. | |
That fucking sucks. For Crytek I mean. | |
Was that really what you meant to say? | |
This is what I want to know too. Is it a full, compilable build of the 99% completed game, or is it just an install with some source code laying around too? Addendum:
I'll read a bit more before I have to go out, and I'll edit this post appropriately... Addendum 2:
Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/11/an-actual-crisis-crysis-2-leaked/#comment-619814 This seems to imply that I was right... An install of the game and a few pieces of source code. After seeing a list of files *somewhere*, I'm still not quite sure how far this goes. I'm fairly certain it's not all source code as the title of this article implies, but more to do with all kinds of internal Dev tools and stuff we don't usually get to see. Seems to be alot of console specific tools too... | |
Is this comformed or just someone makeing trouble? | |
I take it back, this is bad. Really fucking bad. Like, this is almost as bad, if not as bad as the Half Life 2 leak back in 03. | |
Confirmed , this shit is all of the internet, including videos on youtube. | |
Well no shit... That was to the Facepunch guy, not you Tito... | |
The article states that 'the full code' was leaked. It's just a build of the game with some additional keys, not the full source code. | |
Ughhhhh, I hope this doesn't mean a game delay and vicious legal battle. It's been sooo long :( | |
Yeah, source code by itself has a fairly narrow audience, because it won't do anything terribly interesting without art and sound assets. The only conceivable downside of such a release is that it will enable miscreants to more easily analyze the network protocol portion and try to find vulnerabilities and create cheats. The copy protection keys, OTOH, are pretty hilarious. Based on my blessedly limited experience with such things, you're supposed to keep such keys on a non-networked computer in a sealed room with strictly controlled access. Unsigned binaries go in; signed binaries (and nothing else) comes out. And if you want to be really persnickety about it, no one person has the complete password to the keys. You break it up among senior staff members, each of whom enter the sealed room one at a time to enter their piece of the password. And the company providing the copy protection tech (no one in their right mind wastes their time developing this shit in-house) typically makes you sign a contract stating that you will control the keys in a manner similar to that described above, under pain of being pelted with rocks and garbage, etc. etc. etc. You can imagine what this security theater does to your build turnaround times. All for a game. | |
And people usually worry about day 1 cracks... ouch. Day -45 release or whatever is taking the mickey slightly... | |
Someone should get killed for this. All that effort and some low life scum does this? Unforgivable. | |
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Crap, that is going to change sales like a motherfucker, it will be interesting to see if it increases sales (through potential buys downloading it) or decrease sales because people already bought it | |
Doh! The consensus on the facepunch thread seems to be that the game was leaked, a full playable game, and not the source code. People are going to pirate games regardless, but this kind of thing is going to drain the customers who were otherwise going to pay for it. As Extra Credits said to developers: "think of pirates as your competitors." Not only are they offering a free drm-less version of the product available for download 24/7, but now one available 48 days sooner. My money is on a disgruntled employee who did this. | |
Hi, thread. Nice to see you. Poor Crytek. This has to be hard on the developers, seeing people pirate their hard work like this. Especially when Crytek are one of the chief "still making games on PC" people. | |
That's... just... wrong. So wrong. How could this happen? I don't really care about Crysis as a franchise, but those folks at Crytek must be going berserker mad, suicidal, or anything inbetween right about now. Imagine spending more than two years of your life on a project like this, just to have a likely substantial part of the financial returns go down the crapper because some douche leaked the code. Get 'em, Crytek. Find out who leaked the code, IP-trace anyone who downloads it, and sue the pants off 'em all. | |
Gonna be mad? I wonder why. Its not like it's a giant leak or anything. | |
Even though I'm a PC gamer I would understand if Crytek doesn't release Crysis 3 on PC. This is outrageous. | |
It's not just a leak, it's a blueprint for a full crack too = ( Whoever leaked this needs to be punished, it's a big blow to the PC side of things. | |
Pff. PR stunt. Nothing to see here people.
ninja I greet and welcome this madness only to be able to fitness how this will affect the sales. >:) | |
Lol. It's Crysis 2. Warhead was the expansion to 1 (although it would have made an awesome standalone, in my opinion). | |
I can't tell if you are purposely exaggerating or not, but a viewpoint like that is just plain crazy. OT: Well that sucks quite a bit. | |
I imagine this was Crytek's reaction.
But seriously, I hope someone gets their arse handed to them. Crytek spent 3 years on this, they diverse every penny. | |
and people wonder why crytek moved to consoles! it so when shit like this happens the damage isnt quite as bad!. still a bit of a hiccup for them there :/
maybe some kinda record? lol | |
6 weeks prior to release? Mere letters cannot describe how much I laughed at this. Also 6 weeks has got to be a record. And while the guy who caused this clearly deserves a medal for making Crytek live up to the first half of thier name for the umpteenth time, Crytek will probably skin him if they ever find him. | |
First of all it could have been a typo. But it's not. I meant Crysis 3 because Crysis is supposed to be a trilogy. I meant that I would understand if they don't even develop the third game on PC after something like this. | |
He probably implied that Crytek would consider not releasing an hypothetical Crysis 3 for the PC, in the future. Anyway this is bad, even for pirates. I mean, of course everyone expected this game to be pirated a couple days after its release if not on release day, but with more than a month until its release... well yeah, I feel like I'm stating the obvious. I'll be looking forward to seeing sales numbers in a few months. | |
No, he's saying when they do Crysis 3 he wouldn't blame them if it didn't come out for PC. I mean, do these fuckers really not get it? Cry all you want about publishers restricting games and not supporting the platform, but if you're going to pirate it you can suck a dick. You're just messing it up for the rest of us. | |
Worse, that was a leak of the alpha version of hl2 and it wasn't even the full alpha, this is a leak of an entire finished product over a month early. | |
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Report: Crysis 2 Leaked
Almost 45 days before the scheduled release date, a complete build of Crysis 2 is freely available to people who frequent illegal download interwebsites.
According to a thread at Facepunch.com, the full code for Crytek's shooter sequel set in New York City, including multiplayer and the code key to deal with the online DRM, was posted today. No one is sure where the leak came from, but it's especially damaging because the game is near to being declared gold and shipping to retailers. If the code is recent, it's basically the game that everyone will be playing if they purchase the disc. Crysis 2 is set to come out for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on March 22nd.
"So a late developement build of Crysis 2 has gone up on certain sites, it includes the full game, including multiplayer," said user Tom Costello from the Facepunch forums. "It also includes the DRM Solidshield master key files, which only fucking handles the online activation.
"Crytek are going to be so fucking mad," he concluded.
Damn straight, they are.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
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