True , But still this "directx 11 must gpu crap" will make the game less available to customers ...
DX 9 has completed a decade this month, even 9.0c is 8 years old, and 10/10.1 are useless. I understand lots of people will be left out, but they have made the right call. Hopefully, this will mean a leaner game which runs well on various dx11 hardware. Crysis does have doubtful record as far as graphical implementation goes, first they artificially prevented DX9 users to use Very High settings in Crysis, and then the tessellation fiasco in Crysis 2, not to mention the original C2 launching without DX11 and just 04 options to tweak graphics. Lets hope this time around they are really serious about giving PC gamers the ultimate graphical extravaganza. They have indicated in their forums that the screenshot of Advanced Settings is a bit old, and quite a few options have already been added. Good going so far I would say.
Care to elaborate a little on that 'gameplay' you're expecting?
Graphics is what they specialize in, they did drop the ball with Crysis 2 on graphics and limit(streamline) the gameplay, and look what happened, huge backlash on them, and now that they're going back, people will still complain
I personally won't mind this game to be a technological demo as long as they are allowing the proper hardware owners to enjoy the demo.