{"id":10809,"date":"2011-03-22T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"crytek-considers-drm-after-crysis-2-pc-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/10809-crytek-considers-drm-after-crysis-2-pc-leak","title":{"rendered":"Crytek considers DRM after Crysis 2 PC leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of a leaked (and unstable) beta build of Crysis 2 in February, dev Crytek is looking into DRM schemes for future releases.<\/p>\n<p>The spirit and morale of the team were super-super-high and we had gotten some really good news not even 24 hours before.<\/p>\n<p>And then, the next thing you know, there&#8217;s a leak going out and it hit us completely in every direction and everyone in the studio was really depressed by this,&rdquo; executive producer Nathan Camarillo told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameshark.com\/features\/813\/p_20\/Crysis-2-with-Nathan-Camarillo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">GameShark. <\/a>&ldquo;The whole mood of the studio changed. Everyone went from being cooperative and excited to isolated and depressed. It took the wind out of everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Consequences, it seems, will never be the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know there&#8217;s a lot of negative feelings toward DRM,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;But, I mean, what are we supposed to do? The actions of a few are causing maybe a mild inconvenience for others. If I&#8217;m playing a game and it has DRM on it, do I notice? Not really. I just know that there&#8217;s something going on, but doesn&#8217;t really enhance (sic) my play experience. So, it&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ll have to look at in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not yet known whether the final version of Crysis 2 will launch on PC with any DRM included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe actions of a few are causing maybe a mild inconvenience for others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}