Electronic Arts and Crytek have just announced – via the game’s official Facebook page – that the online multiplayer mode for the first Crysis game will no longer be available from October 11th.
According to the teams, there aren’t enough players to justify maintaining the online services for this title. Needless to say that Crysis game out almost 11 years ago, so this is something that does not really surprise us.
Here is the full message:
“Online multiplayer will no longer be available from October 11, 2018.
We don’t have the required number of players to keep up the service and ensure all our players have a great online experience.
We appreciate your support and hope you continue enjoying our single-player campaign.”
Crysis’ online multiplayer was interesting and I really enjoyed back in the days. Witnessing the player interacting with the environment and plants for the first time in a multiplayer game was a unique experience, and Power Struggle was a mode that took advantage of everything that Crysis was offering (from the nanosuit to the vehicles). It’s just a shame that it never really took off.
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Did not know it was still available all this time.
This doesn’t come as a surprise though, because it makes sense for the Devs/publisher to pull out the online hosting services, given the majority of the playerbase might have shifted towards playing other new Online/MP games.
But OLD still remains Gold.
Crysis 1 was a very good game, an excellent shooter. It redefined the First-person shooter genre to a whole new level.
I still play CRYSIS 1 for the nostalgia though. I find the game much better than Crysis 2 and 3.
KAOS Studios also made a similar move, imo. They dropped the MP mode on their title “Frontlines: Fuel of War” (FFOW), but obviously this game failed to meet the expectations of the gaming community.
I enjoyed playing the SP story mode of FFOW though.
Yeah man.crysis 1 was really a great game and waaaay better than the next versions.not only truely next gen visuals,but also very good gameplay that was not just a typical FPS.
Totally agree with you.
I think few players were still there, but I’m not fully sure.
I think the CryMP community made their own hosting software to keep the multiplayer alive to some extent, despite the official shutdown of the servers ?
Hope one day we will get real crysis 2
Amen. Actual Crysis 2’s linear “urban jungle” is so disappointing compared to the first game.
Isn’t there a small but dedicated group of fans that still play this? If so, there should really be a way to let them host their own servers.
I stopped caring about multiplayer when player run servers became a thing of the past. Used to be a games multiplayer died when the fans let it not when a company decided to kill it.
This about sums it up for me.
This doesn’t come as a surprise though, because it makes sense for the Devs/publisher to pull out the online hosting services, given the majority of the playerbase might have shifted towards playing other new Online/MP games.But OLD games still remains Gold.Crysis 1 was a very good game, an excellent shooter
Copy/paste Spam BOT detected…*sigh*
I wonder why so many copy/paste spam bot in this site lately…
They are active on other websites as well, where DISQUS is used as a means of forum communication.
But yes, unless the site’s Mod/Admin JOHN doesn’t take any serious action, and/or ban such spam accounts, these bots will keep on popping up.
Over at VideoCardz, the mod/admin has been deleting and banning accounts of these copy/paste spam bots.
Report them so we can ban them (it’s pretty difficult to keep up with so many comments). We now banned both of these accounts.
Okay. Yeah, I have already done that in the past by flagging such comments as spam. Will try doing it again.
Cheers !
I recently reported many more similar cop/paste comments as spam, but ALL the replies are still active ?
I don’t see them as deleted. Do you guys get any sort of notification if someone reports a comment, and where are the other mods ?
When you report a comment, it shows up on our “Pending” tab. Right now we don’t see any comments there.
Oh, that’s very strange….I’ve already marked few accounts as Spam bots before.
I think there might be some problem with the DISQUS software. I really don’t trust this whole “disqus” chat system. lol.
John is too patient guy/admin 😀 even for that Kardashian,he’s not insta-ban that user immediately,but wait couple weeks before ban him/her(?)
Well there is a difference between someone having a different opinion and those who simply copy-paste other comments (spammers) 😉
Where is that KKW guy, by the way ? I haven’t seen him make a comment since past many months or so.
Maybe he still here,but change his disqus name or something..
This doesn’t come as a surprise though, because it makes sense for the Devs/publisher to pull out the online hosting services, given the majority of the playerbase might have shifted towards playing other new Online/MP games.But OLD games still remains Gold.Crysis 1 was a very good game, an excellent shooter
Jeez ! Another BOT.
i did not know it was still active after…11 years!
The modern age.
“We’ll tell YOU when you’re done with the game.”
just make Crysis HD.