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Reddit giveaway for Crysis Remastered goes poorly for Crytek

Giveaways from developers, publishers and other companies in the videogame world are a common sight on Reddit and are usually some of the top rated posts as people flock in for a chance to win with entries usually filled with praise. For Crysis Remastered and Crytek things did not go as planned.

Crytek recently started a giveaway for 20 Crysis Remastered Steam codes on the subreddit /r/pcgaming. It’s still live right now and you can enter if you’re so inclined.

Crysis Remastered launches on Steam come 17th September after being an Epic Games Store exclusive. If you guessed this is why some of the comments were bad, you guessed right.

“Probably they didn’t sell enough copies on Epig trash store and now they come here to advertise their hot garbage after they took the exclusivity money,” reads one comment with 199 upvotes.

We’re not sure if the “Epig” part was intentional or not, but it works either way.

While the store exclusivity was a sore spot it’s not the focus of the top comments. Most point to the fact that this remaster didn’t do enough compared to the original game.

“Crysis Remastered is a [sh@^ty] remaster and I don’t want a key,” states the top comment on the entire thread with 900 upvotes.

Other comments add that the remaster “[looks] worse than the original”, has physics problems and has performance issues in an attempt to recapture the spark of the “Can it run Crysis?” meme from years past.

All of these issues are not new and were brought up in reviews of the remaster when it originally launched last year.

We’re aware that Metacritic is a flawed platform but it has its uses for some quick comparisons. Right now Crysis Remastered has a 69 Metascore from 21 critic reviews and a 3.6 user score from 158 ratings. Reading some of those ratings brings up the same issues mentioned in the Reddit thread.

Said thread requires users to post the text “I’m in” to enter the contest and, while many users have done so, the negative comments are by the far the highest voted and sit on top of the thread when loading comments by the default order.

This may all seem like keyboard warrior nonsense and, well, it is, but sometimes companies get called out when they try to win back some favour with some free keys.

We feel sorry for the community manager who had to make the Reddit post and now most likely has to sort through hundreds of inflammatory comments about a recycled game from 2007.

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