Speaking in a recent interview with PC Play magazine, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli stated his belief that piracy is a core problem surrounding the current generation of PC gaming.

Yerli noted that Crytek is suffering huge losses as a result of piracy and as such, the company does not plan on releasing PC exclusives like Crysis in the future. Future titles will be multi-platform, which isn’t all that surprising given that Crytek demonstrated its CryENGINE 2 running on PS3 and Xbox 360 during this year’s GDC.

We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.

Good to hear that they will still support the PC platform. Multi-platform game releases are a win-win for consumers, really.

PC PLAY – Magazine For The Next Level Generation [PC Play]

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