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I would need to be paid to play Crysis 2.

@Chris_Spray
I agree. That game was so bad, that the only way I'd play it again was if someone payed me.

Well at least I agree with them on the DLC issue, not so sure about the f2p only. F2p can sometimes be just a different way of milking the customers to death as well.

Jesus..can U ban this spammer scum already!

He'll get squished sooner or later :)

Excellent news, and a bold strategy plan for the future. "Crysis Wars" I believe was a good indicator, being Free at just how popular game an remain whereas their paid brethren die in the dust.
Looking forward to what comes next, and Browser-nased and Social games are still in their infancy.

Crytek gone mad..once they was benchmark games maker..and now...oh

I utterly disagree, especially with the notion that Crysis 2 was a bad game. This is utterly tragic news for me, a single-player FPS fan. We're losing more and more quality developers, either just getting closed down or going multiplayer-only, and to now lose the maker of Crysis and Far Cry because of piracy paranoia and console indifference - that makes me sad.

Raven, Monolith, Free Radical, Bungie (they're making an MMO, you know it), Codemasters, the STALKER guys, probably id Software now that RAGE flopped, I'm going down the list of single-player FPS makers and I'm coming up short with what ones are actually left for me to look forward to... especially as even Crytek are calling Crysis 3 "just a contractual obligation, we don't want to do it".

SP is dying (aside from RT/TBS/RTT/Flight Sims), Tingler. You can see it already in the 5-6 hour SP Campaigns in shooters. I enjoy MP in some (read: SOME) online shooters, failing to even play their SP campaigns ("Battlefield" mainly) but I feel your pain.
It does all come down to Piracy Paranoia, but I wish it stopped at that.
There is something worse, insidious and as soul-reaping as old Lucifer himself - Social Media. Ina addition, F2P is a misnomer. try playing "Lord of the Rings Online" without spending any real cash and see exactly how far you get...not very far at all. So for Crytek, Microtransactions are obviously going to the way of the future.

If U make A great game, even piracy would not be a problem. See Bethesda or DICE. Single-player(!) and Multi-player games which sold above 10 mill worldwide. Crytek just a lazy scared baby, who cant fight the piracy. Skyrim was pirated much, but still, support of Bethesda with mods, kits and overall behavior to their fans make them reliable developer, and their products selling very well...its just the type of how they should approach.

Herodotus i really need to contradict you on this one,sp is dying?Most gamers,especially the hardcore ones and the casual croud,are mostly interested in single player,screw what the social media say everyone with a brain know not to believe their bullshit.
As for f2p,the example you`ve given is a bad one,lotro was originally pay to play and because of this it couldn`t transition completely into a f2p but if the model is done right you can definetly go through the entire game and enjoy it without having to pay jack.

Saying that single player games are dying might be an overstatement. But it cannot be denied that online multiplayer is where publishers can make the most of their money, whether you like it or not. The market for SP games is diminishing. It is in that context that ppl say SP games are dying, although it will never "die" as such.

Yes, I should have been more specific. While endless complaints are lodged about the continually shortening of SP Campaigns in most FPS's/TPS's the downward spiral continues. Then again, the attention span of most gamers these days is around 6 hours and then it's "Next game please, Daddy". I tenbd to stay away from these games, and enjoy the long SP Campaigns in the genres as outlined in my previous post.

They are dying because most developers focus so much on making cool looking engines that can render out some cool cutscenes, buy some rock music and make for an enticing commercial and fool people it is the next COD - the way you want it and focus on DLC items for MP game and all there is - is the MP game because there they have a chance to tie you up to an account and battle piracy.

Single player shooters have for a pretty long time been quite boring and absolute horrid story wise. Sure, there are one or two games that stands out but honestly - either skip stories and give us Quake action where the gaming and controls and level design makes the game - or make a game that is more like Sin, Modern Warfare - old CoD etc. Solid action with good intense scripted story to it.

But most of all - go back to how it used to be - http://imgur.com/r/gaming/AW6kK ;)

"CoD" and "CoD 2" - I 've lost count of the number of times I played those SP Campaigns but they were worth the trip (not forgetting the venerable "MoH" series, including the muchmaligned "Paciic Assault" which I had loads of fun with). Now though, I wouldn't get through one as it is just cut-cene to cut-sne, with some shooting in between.
So that makes sense about showing off the graphical prowess of the game, not it's actual content (even "Crysis", I believe sufered from this).

Oh, you are lining up goodies hero - CoD 2 I played several times trying to beat all the difficulties - I also enjoyed the early MoH games tremendously! Never did I believe though that that would be the norm of how almost all games would play in the future...

Shooters need more diversity, we need more Serious Sam and "crazy" games that is all about the feel or running through levels that are designed awesomly and have that feeling of blasting things and enemies to bit down to perfection. All the pseudo-realistic war-shooters are turning into old arcade games - press a number of different buttons to time-attack a boss and then shuffle to cover and lean out to shoot...