I intentionally skipped the Crysis 2 beta because it was on Xbox 360. Meh. Crysis 2 MP will be dead after a month or two anyway.Problem not solved. No one is going to play the MP, and performance is one (there are more!) of the primary reasons.

Uh, no. No one is going to play it because:

1) Performance, performance, performance. Crysis 2 will only run well on some computers (that's a technically term; it means less than many). Yeah, that's right, that includes consoles too. Consistency isn't going to win it any points. People are going to lean on games that have much better performance, because there's virtually nothing compelling them to play a game that can't consistently run at a good frame rate when they can play better (key word: better) games like (yes) Call of Duty instead @ 60+fps. People are only truly forgiving of performance when the game is good enough to warrant it. See: Bad Company 2.

2) Gameplay. Crysis is a great single player game, and generally speaking, it has tight gameplay, but the multiplayer design is clearly an afterthought. Interesting systems yanked from Battlefield and Counter Strike aren't going to grab people when they can play better games like Battlefield or Counterstrike.LOL! "alot" of people are playing Crysis MP even today?

1) Crysis hasn't actually been out for that long. That wouldn't be impressive even if it were true. A LOT of people are playing Call of Duty 4 today. Even more people are playing CS1.6.
2) There are 498 people playing Crysis Wars on Xfire daily. That's slightly more than Unreal Tournament 3--another game that "no one" plays.
3) There are fewer than 130 servers according to GameTracker.com. No more than 11 of those servers currently have 10 or more people on them.

So "no one" is a clear exaggeration of the facts, but probably a smaller one than "a lot."

My prediction is pretty sound: Crysis 2 MP will be more popular out the gate on consoles (perhaps having an edge on PS3 thanks to the lack of Halo) than it will be on PC, and in a matter of months the player populations on all platforms are going to drop dramatically. The console version will be abandoned first, and the PC version will have dozens if not a few hundred daily players a year after its release. Will you be able to find a game a year from now? Probably. But get used to playing with the same small handful of people.

And yes, actually, I guess Call of Duty and Halo do share some of the blame for being more well designed multiplayer games!

And that's just one more nail in the Crysis 2 MP coffin. But since "people" technically just means more than one person, I guess you're right!That's a bit of a reach.