Crytek Moving Toward Free-to-play?

[Yoshi]

Yep. Entitlement attitudes are a gigantic problem.

[FirstBlood]

I have a really hard time believing anyone pirating games actually feels that they're entitled to do so.

[Diff-chan]

Have you ever read a comments thread on TorrentFreak?

[gamevet]

Have you ever read a comments thread on TorrentFreak?

Yeah!

http://torrentfreak.com/crysis-2-lea...d-fest-110213/

I just played the Internal 'leaked' version. It looks pretty hot. 5.4 gb download from hotfile. I cant wait for the finished version to get cracked, I will DL it for sure. I was only looking for this game as I just finished playing the first crysis, didn`t buy that either. I don`t believe in paying for many games. The last game i bought was Age Of Kings, 1999, created by ensemble studios. EA or no EA, devs will always create games, and true devs should be happy if people choose to download their efforts onto their computers. You can believe that their will always be TRUE Developers who will create for no payment, and the ones who don`t will soon have to seek alternative employment, as the age of paying for games is already a by-gone era. Took me 30 mins to hoover crysis 2 off the net. Peace.

Stealthy Monk.

No I dont work for free, but the things I am passionate about, I do for free. In a world of unpaid developers, the only kind of developer you'll have is passionate ones. People who pursue their endeavours because of passion are infinitely better at it than those who are motivated by money, that's not say that there are many who are motivated by both, but without the money aspect, the only motivation left is desire to create. People who labour under that incentive do so joyfully. With this in mind, it would therefore, be logical to assume that profit driven corps like EA are actually stiffling the proliferation of honest, grade A coding. With almost 7,000,000,000,000 peeps on this planet, there's plenty of good coders among them, think about it...

Stealth Monk

I was surprised by how many people (in the comments section) actually didn't download it, because they planned on buying it anyway. Then you have guys like JB here, that don't care who it affects.

[Joust Williams]

So why is he playing games that cost money? Obviously they aren't any good.

[FirstBlood]

I guess I shouldn't have said "anyone". Obviously they exist. But to act like the big problem with piracy is that people feel "entitled" to free games just isn't true.

[Frogacuda]

Well they feel conditionally entitled to them. Like if they know they can't afford them or otherwise couldn't/wouldn't get them, they feel entitled to play them anyway.

Which is a problem of entitlement, but not one that affects sales dramatically.

[kedawa]

I really don't care who pirates what.
The business model that has worked in the past is ill-suited today.
Publishers/developers will sink or swim based on how well they can market their software as a service.

[Yoshi]

I have a really hard time believing anyone pirating games actually feels that they're entitled to do so.

They either feel entitled or are just common thieves. I'm frankly having trouble drawing a line between those, but I am not sure what choice C is.

[Yoshi]

Publishers/developers will sink or swim based on how well they can market their software as a service.

Then gaming is dead to me. For someone who vastly prefers single player games and rarely buys DLC, there is no service to sell.