Why Do You Think "Crysis 2" Underperformed?

[QUOTE="ocstew"][QUOTE="MIYAMOTOnext007"]

The average FPS gamer wants a great multiplayer, not a great singleplayer.

Crysis 2 had a great singleplayer, not a great multiplayer.

MIYAMOTOnext007

I clearly said "the average FPS (first person shooter) gamer"

People got used to Call of Duty and Crysis didnt play like call of duty

finalstar2007

Try to please everyone, and you please no one.getyeryayasout

This, they tried everything, but did not try to focus enough on any of those things, just pick up a mixer and throw it all and throw it out without having much of ambition on any of those things.

[QUOTE="GoldenElementXL"]Everyone I asked if they bought Crysis 2 replied with "I didn't even know there was a Crysis 1" The first being a PC exclusive hurt the sales of the second. The PC fanboys are going to jump all over me over this but it's the truth. I really don't care. *Going to play Crysis 2 now*Elann2008

this is bs, its like saying new IPs cant sell very well because no one knows them. The game didn't sell because it was mediocre.

The FPS market is a difficult one to compete in, it looks like a pretty good game to me but I'd buy KZ3 before it and then have R3 and BF3 too look forward to on the horizon. Perhaps gamers feel like I do or it just didn't appeal to as many peopl as EA thought it would.

Eh, it's a Crytek game. Outside of graphics they've always been pretty average.

They made a shoddy sequal, they don't deserve the sales. They will find a way to blame the PC for though I imagine.

They made a shoddy sequal, they don't deserve the sales. They will find a way to blame the PC for though I imagine.

tenaka2

Probably because it's a terrible game.

well... considering that their fanbase was on the PC and basically gave them the middle finger not to mention that pretty much no one knew Crysis outside of PC gaming (talking about general public not gaming nerds like us on gamespot :P) i cant say i'm surprised.

I hope they make less profit then they did from the original, that would be fantastic.

Im only ~1.5 hours into the game on PC right now, but the game plays fantastic and looks amazing (im playing on hardcore, I havent bothered ini tweaks yet). I dont get all the hate. I get SOME of the hate, but not all. Its a fun game.

I hope they make less profit then they did from the original, that would be fantastic.

tenaka2

Im only ~1.5 hours into the game on PC right now, but the game plays fantastic and looks amazing (im playing on hardcore, I havent bothered ini tweaks yet). I dont get all the hate. I get SOME of the hate, but not all. Its a fun game.

Cali3350

[QUOTE="tenaka2"]

I hope they make less profit then they did from the original, that would be fantastic.

Deadbeatcobra

Probably the same thing really. According to some trackers I visit Crysis 2 Xbox 360 has been downloaded ~600,000 times so far.

[QUOTE="Cali3350"]

Im only ~1.5 hours into the game on PC right now, but the game plays fantastic and looks amazing (im playing on hardcore, I havent bothered ini tweaks yet). I dont get all the hate. I get SOME of the hate, but not all. Its a fun game.

ocstew

I don't want Crytec to go bankrupt, Crysis 1 made a good profit, but they got greedy and made a shoddy sequal, that shouldn't be rewarded.

Sales are indicating that they getting what they deserve.

[QUOTE="Cali3350"]

Im only ~1.5 hours into the game on PC right now, but the game plays fantastic and looks amazing (im playing on hardcore, I havent bothered ini tweaks yet). I dont get all the hate. I get SOME of the hate, but not all. Its a fun game.

ocstew

People got used to Call of Duty and Crysis didnt play like call of duty

finalstar2007

[QUOTE="finalstar2007"]

People got used to Call of Duty and Crysis didnt play like call of duty

cainetao11

Im only ~1.5 hours into the game on PC right now, but the game plays fantastic and looks amazing (im playing on hardcore, I havent bothered ini tweaks yet). I dont get all the hate. I get SOME of the hate, but not all. Its a fun game.

Cali3350

It really is true, Crytek alienated thier PC audience, and did not suceed in giving the game a solid identity on consoles.

The PC audience got royally pissed (with a fairly good reason), and you cant blame console players for not picking it up, there are so many fps games out there, and Crysis were fairly average, imitating CoD too much to get its own identity.

And soon we will hear Crytek complain again -.- I wonder if the PC audience gets the blame for this one :S

PC elitists on every forum whining about it made the game seem fail. But then again you have DA2, still I don't see how two worse games beat Crysis 2 in sales. ocstew

PC gamers can't be blamed. Is not our fault if you can simply rent the game in Xbox 360 or PS3 for a weekend campaign run. Is not our fault if the game doesn't delivers in mp and lacks editor. Is not our fault if the game has 0 connections in characters and story with Cryisis. Is Crytek fault if the game doesn't appeals console gamers. I bought the game and dplay the campaign, If I don't like what I saw I have legit right to express my dissapoint.

Marketing seems a bit off. The ads have been stylish and eye-catching, but there was really nothing to it other than some guy in an unusual looking suit fighting in NYC. It needed something that a viewer can identify with.

Homefronts ad campaign extended way beyond television. Here in NYC alone, there were add on cabs and buses and in subways, not to mention the billboards. It even had box art that was more interesting than generic supersoldier fighting aliens.

Too many great games and not enough time to play them all - I'll be one of those that pick it up at a later date. :)

I am starting to have my doubts about it reaching the combined sales of 4.5 million of Crysis and Crysis Warhead.

[QUOTE="tenaka2"]

I hope they make less profit then they did from the original, that would be fantastic.

Deadbeatcobra

Yeah. The thing is Crysis sold over 3 million copies on the long run. Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, made those piracy comments about the PC when Crysis was selling poorly intially, I think it might have to do with the fact that they set the bar pretty high with Crysis. As people got better and better hardware people brought Crysis, over 3 million of them and Crytek quitely stopped talking about piracy on the PC. That's why Crysis Warhead sold faster over a shorter period because people already had a gaming rig to run Crysis which would easily run Crysis Warhead.

Catering to the fans of the franchise would have probably helped.

Right now, the game has some very rough spots in the tech department to the point where the predecessor is not only more consistant but more impressive overall.

furthermore, Crytek have not been up to the job in regards to bug fixing and anti cheating measures in MP.

Initially, people could apparently "hack" MP with NOTEPAD and it seems you can (hopefully could) log in and compete using a KEYGEN :?

I'm not sure what the AI is up to but they're sure easy to confuse. Looks like they have a hard time dealing with stealth.

Console players didn't know about the game because no one really outside of major gamers and people on forums know about the first Crysis. And PC players didn't want it because it was so downgraded from everything the first game did great. It didn't even feel like a proper pc game.

Its not COD

People bought it for the multiplayer and complained about it. It should always have been marketed as a Single player game IMO and releasing a multiplayer demo just made people think it was all about the MP.bobbetybob

MP that needs a lot of work at that, at least on PC. Kinda ironic that it's probably the worst of the three.

lol

I'm glad it bombed and scored worse than Crysis1 at almost everywhere. Maybe they've learned their lesson.

Besides Crytek overestimating the success of a game making it's 1st entry on consoles, I think bugs and tech issues with the beta hurt it a lot.Even still,most videogame series' on consoles don't seem to really take off until their 2nd showing. So my guess is Crysis 3 will have a lot more success than Crysis 2 did.

Besides Crytek overestimating the success of a game making it's 1st entry on consoles, I think bugs and tech issues with the beta hurt it a lot.Even still,most videogame series' on consoles don't seem to really take off until their 2nd showing. So my guess is Crysis 3 will have a lot more success than Crysis 2 did.

Poncho_Hachacha

Esecially when they were still there upon retai release ;)

Considering Yerhli's comments I'm not even sure there will be a Crysis 3. I would'nt be surprized if he's a thinking a PC exclusive would have been less hassle by now.

Crytek has to realize that the console market is a whole lot more competitive than the PC games market. Mediocre FPS games that are all about "teh grafix," like Crysis and Crysis 2, aren't going to fly on consoles.

Length.

Because of it's lack of an identity. I unfortunately am one of the fools who loved Crysis 1 and bought Crysis 2 and haven't put more than 2 hours into it. What a waste of $60 for a pc game. Game truly is mediocre at best.

TV advertising market =/= Gaming forum minority. [QUOTE="ocstew"][QUOTE="SAGE_OF_FIRE"]consoles ocstew

DA2 may of taken steps back, however it didn't have the launch debacle of visual settings, broken multiplayer and disregard for the PC audience in general. That's looking at both as multiplatform games.

Which is why I personally picked up DA2 on launch, and am yet to buy Crysis 2. Coming from someone who bought DA:O, Awakening, Crysis and Warhead all on release.

Because of it's lack of an identity.

bigblunt537

Crysis is a PC franchise. Consolites outside of System Wars didn't know the game was even coming out on consoles or didn't know about the game, period. Regular Joe only knows about Halo and Call of duty, everything else is crappy.nintendog66

The game didn't sell because it was mediocre.

Krelian-co

[QUOTE="nintendog66"]Crysis is a PC franchise. Consolites outside of System Wars didn't know the game was even coming out on consoles or didn't know about the game, period. Regular Joe only knows about Halo and Call of duty, everything else is crappy.dc337

[QUOTE="dc337"]

[QUOTE="nintendog66"]Crysis is a PC franchise. Consolites outside of System Wars didn't know the game was even coming out on consoles or didn't know about the game, period. Regular Joe only knows about Halo and Call of duty, everything else is crappy.skrat_01