Report: Crytek Employees Refusing to Come in to Work
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This is what happens when you spend ungodly amounts developing an engine no one wants to license, your last game was an awful failure, you spend god knows how much developing a f2p game that only just came out a few months ago and few people seem to ever talk about, and your most successful series is just moderately successful, but not a blow out hit.iseko said:
I sit in the opposite camp to you though. I won't be sad to see them go at all. They made some good engine technology, but they weren't a good game developer.
the majority yes, I believe the founders of Free Radical went off to form a mobile app studio. and from what Crytek stated, they never seemed to have the willingness to create another Timesplitters game; at least they've allowed Timesplitters Rewind to be produced for free by the fanbase.PunkRex said:
I dont think it was the popularity of the Xbone was the sole cause for Ryse's flop, but mostly because of what it was. I remember that in the grim darkness of 2013 where Ryse was announced and there was no combat mechanic at all. Just move to an enemy and QTE would take over.Ultratwinkie said:
I imagine its hard to win people back when you reveal a game that has no more gameplay than the old dancemat games. And at least they made a good party game.
The main studio may surprise you every once in a while, but the brand has been more noted for its flops lately. Especially Call of Duty: Roman Warfare, and Call of Duty: Now with Microtransactions. For the latter, they just couldn't match their console competition (host of f2p games on the Playstation, not beating WoT to the market on the 360, and now they're just hoping they'll appeal to SOMEONE on Steam.
What we're seeing is that they're putting a tourniquet on costs. That'll turn gangrenous soon, followed by amputation.
What we're seeing is that they're putting a tourniquet on costs. That'll turn gangrenous soon, followed by amputation.
it's times like this where you'd think devs would learn to manage their finances better so troubles like this would never happen. Though considering the self-destructive tendencies of companies I better not get my hopes up.
Yeah Ryse just looked so boring to me especially after that abysmal E3 reveal, I never really even considered it a contender in the console wars. It was launching against a superhero game about a guy who could shoot neon lasers to fight an army of concrete powered soldiers and a zombie game were you can do this:gigastar said:
And what did it offer? Guy with sword stabbing people over and over again.
Crytek isn't looking to be bought by Deep Silver, Crytek UK is.
Didn't Deep Silver already have a chance to when they snatched up Volition and 4A?
Didn't Deep Silver already have a chance to when they snatched up Volition and 4A?
People keep saying this but it really isnt true, the CryEngine is being adopted now more then ever, there are around 45-ish games (not counting the indie games) since 2011 that use CryEngine. In comparison idTech 4 and 5 combined have less then that since 2004 (they have 11).Ultratwinkie said:
CryEngine isnt as out there as the Unreal Engine or Unity for indies (or Frostbite for EA, heh) but it is VERY out there and I bet that it is doing its financial part fine. If there is anything to blame its everything else since they never really had a hit game for some time now, all of them being just average while having big budgets.
I can't imagine who though making Homefront 2 was a good idea. It was a shitty game that was universally panned and sold terribly.
Isn't this the company that is run by a guy who essentially said "single player games are dead" and does nothing but focus on graphics over everything else? I could see why they would be struggling with that kind of mentality.
I feel bad for the workers though, they're getting screwed over big time.
I feel bad for the workers though, they're getting screwed over big time.