MyCrysis has word that Crytek has addressed a problem with the auto-patcher for Crysis Wars that was partially responsible for a diminishing player population in multiplayer Crysis games. Crytek also grants that attrition may be part of this equation as well, a situation they hope the free Crysis Wars trial that kicks off tomorrow and next month's retail release of Crysis Maximum Edition will change:

As a few of you have noticed recently the numbers in Crysis Wars have seemed to rapidly decrease. After some investigation of the communities concerns we have ascertained that there was an issue with the prompting message from Patch 1.3 to 1.4. Unfortunately due to a mix up, the wrong version was being forwarded.

We've now solved this issue and all people remaining on Patch 1.3 will now be forwarded to Patch 1.4 and therefore we expect the numbers to pick up somewhat. We are also aware that this is not the only reason for concern, as some of you have been quite disappointed by the dropping numbers in Crysis Wars recently. As we obviously want to make sure you guys, and everyone that plays our games is able to hop straight in to their favourite server with plenty of others, we're offering the Spring Trial Period starting tomorrow.

Along with this fix and the trial, Crysis Maximum Edition hits the shelves on May 5th, which should also be help in revitalizing the numbers. We thank those of you that have stuck with us for so long for your continued support, and we want to asure you once again that we're definitely going to be producing some great stuff in the near future to make sure that playing Crysis Wars, never gets dull!