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Crytek Laments Crysis 2 Leak

By james_fudge

Crytek's Nathan Camarillo, the executive producer of Crysis 2, lamented about what he called the "worst day in the company's history," - the day it heard that Crysis 2 had been leaked to file-sharing sites around the Internet. Speaking last night at the Guardian's Gamesblog Live event (covered by AverageGamer), Camarillo described the event as a traumatic experience for the development team and expressed concerns about the financial impact a leak such as this could have in the long run.

Besides the leaked build being a sloppy, buggy mess that Crytek didn't want the public to experience for obvious reasons (because the leak was an old build from January), Camarillo was upset that a storyline the company tried so hard to keep a secret was partially revealed.

Here is what he had to say about the story and the bugs: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).