HISTORY
The very first Far Cry Friday was actually held on Tuesday, October 4, 2005. Cold Justice invited a number of Far Cry: Instincts map makers to show off their wares as part of Gamertag.com's Community Game Nights. The session was an instant hit, and at the suggestion of Capt Von Ryan (now known as Sh0tgun Murphy), became a weekly event. Cold Justice dubbed the event "Far Cry Friday" and the rest was history.FCF events were held regularly for several months, coordinated through the Gamertag.com forums. Some parties went well over 10 hours and often involved players on two continents.
Sadly, when Far Cry Instincts: Predator was released on the Xbox 360, the implementation was terribly buggy and the lobby introduced problems that made it difficult to conduct parties in the way we had in the past. Interest in Far Cry Friday languished in part due to the bugs and also due to a switch in platform preference for the Xbox 360 over the older original Xbox. FCF was officially pronounced dead by Cold Justice in late 2006.
UbiSoft eventually corrected a majority of the online problems, but it was too little, too late for FCF. A revival of FCF was attempted, but too many of the original players had moved on or even traded-in their copy of Far Cry Instincts: Predator. Cold Justice eventually had to sever his ties with Gamertag.com and Far Cry Friday began to be nothing more than a pleasant memory.
Far Cry 2
UbiSoft reincarnated Far Cry: Instincts into Far Cry 2, with a beautiful new look,a next-generation map editor and improved online play.The new Far Cry Friday started with the introduction of this blog.
We had two main goals in reviving Far Cry Friday:
- Create a party atmosphere with a core group of English-speaking adult gamers, both seasoned map creators and newbie players, who are more concerned about having good fun with good friends than they are about getting kill counts.
- Set up a support environment for amateur map creators where their maps can be play tested, evaluated and critiqued. We want to encourage people in their map-making endeavors and help them learn not just how to make maps that are pretty or unique, but to make maps that people actually want to play.
Far Cry 3
With the release of Far Cry 3 eminent, Cold Justice and Broken Piggy, of course, brought back the question of “Should we reboot Far Cry Friday?” And the answer was “yes!”Unfortunately, the game, while having significantly improved online gameplay, was released with a broken and severely hobbled lobby. But some things are bigger than a broken lobby, and many of the FCF regulars have, once again, rallied around the campfire to swap maps, stories and gunfire.
UPDATED 12-JAN-2013
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