I know that there are threads here for the Crysis 3 score. I recently downloaded the game on Origin yesterday and went through the campaign. I own the Digital Deluxe edition on Origin, which includes everything. One thing I noticed is that the soundtrack is included in this bundle. I am very disappointed (though it doesn't come as a surprise, these Activision sleezebags) in my Call of Duty: Black Ops III Hardened Edition. It came with a download of the soundtrack, but it was in 128kbps!! That's just lousy.

Anyway, returning to Crysis 3, my copy from Origin is in lossless wav at a consistent 1411kbps across the entire album. I know nearly everyone here hates wav files, but give me a shout out if you would like this. I can convert these into flac, mp3, or m4a. I definitely will convert it to 256 m4a because I will be copying it to my iPod and that saves a ton of space. I WILL preserve the original wav files though, don't you worry. Let me know!

original .wav files from Origin purchase?

Yeah, hard to believe right?

awesome, TIA

I have yet to be told by anyone or read anyone saying that they distinctly hate WAV files. I myself have ripped numerous CDs in WAV with EAC (WAV's a little more widely supported by media players than FLAC & having the uncompressed native just makes conversions a breeze), but then also provide FLAC & MP3 (320kbps CBR/Constant Bit Rate) conversions as FLAC's the same as WAV but losslessly compressed to a smaller size, but others aren't particular about lossless and just prefer having the versatile & smaller MP3 at that cost of quality they may not be able to distinctly hear anyway.

At the end of the day, if the majority of users here have anything in common with me, they're here to get music they otherwise cannot purchase and/or acquire for themselves, whether it'd be lossless CD rips on account of not having a disk drive nor the knowledge of how to do so, in-game music files I myself haven't a chance in figuring out how to extract, music sold only in a specific region (Ex. Ryu ga Gotoku/Yakuza music being sold only in Japan), unofficial soundtracks which provide a mix between soundtrack & in-game music to satisfy a lacking quantity that official releases often have or rare music collections from limited or no-longer-sold copies. That or getting a sneak peak at what they're trying to buy (Ex. It's a big benefit to be able to fetch a copy of Nioh's soundtrack & ascertain just how worth the trouble and/or cost of purchasing & shipping from Japan to England it would be to get it's sublime music is).

But when you offer choice between the native, the compressed & the lossy, everybody's happy (As long as you, the uploader, have the internet upload speed & online storage to cope with it). And if it comes down to it, I'd argue with just putting up the native. At the end of the day, anybody can convert a WAV into an MP3 with little-to-no hassle with the huge assortment of free audio software like Audacity or Goldwave and priced software like dbPoweramp.



Original .wav files from Origin purchase?

Indeed! I was as surprised as you when I got my hands on it.

Thank you!