Crytek in danger of bankruptcy
- Thread starter Calin Banc
- Start date
Soldato
but they failed still.
If they just concentrated on PC gaming and released a PC game once every 3 years on a small dev team like 100 people they wont be bankcrupt.
Look at BIS who make Arma games. Doing fine at the moment.
If you got 800 people in your company, they should be releasing much more games
Permabanned
Gface is it's biggest lol.
Unfortunately Crysis wasn't much of a shooter.....FACT, his movements were way too slow...it's like he had lead boots on all the time, he's even slow with the suit working 
.
they targeted advanced graphics as their priority, at the expense of the actual game..they got it the wrong way around
.
.they targeted advanced graphics as their priority, at the expense of the actual game..they got it the wrong way around
.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-23-crysis-developer-crytek-claims-bankrupt-report-is-false
Crytek are denying the rumours.
Crytek are denying the rumours.
Soldato
honestly haven't liked any Crytek games except Far Cry. Crysis was pretty to look at but otherwise pretty boring, and sequels just progressively got worse
not a great loss imo
not a great loss imo
Associate
Those all look 'meh', hopefully for Crytek's sake people disagree with me
to be fair that's only the UK subsidiary.. no reason why that has to be a revenue generating operation... didn't look at the filled accounts.. but I would bet my 2p that its just a shell to employee in the UK and that's all your really seeing there is the employment cost of their UK sub.. noting of any merit going through it
Man of Honour
- Joined
- 21 Nov 2004
- Posts
- 45,718
Crytek have lost their innovation unfortunately. Hope they can resolve this for the sake of the 800 employees.
Associate
I guess considering the price of their source code, it was more about exporting the engine and the games were a tech demo to show the engine off, cos, to be fair, it's polished as hell. It ain't just pwetty gwaphics going on there.
Completely agree with this. Far Cry was excellent, though it was overshadowed by Half Life 2 at the time (unjustly imho). Other companies have developed the free roaming bits of Far Cry with moderate success - though the original vision does seem to be coming to fruition (Far Cry 3 developing on 2).
But I found the Crysis games very uninvolving.
Soldato
Problems keep piling.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
Now reporting that 30 staff from the UK office were let go, the UK office working on Homefront, with some of those staff rumoured to have moved to the company making Star Citizen. So sounds like they are trying to find jobs to shift people into if possible which is better than nothing, but they are pushing people out the door now. Apparently that is 30 of around 130 staff.
Soldato
Reports saying they only paid some devs £700 for the month and late.... but then they deny they are skint. Are they trying to push people out so they leave of their own accord? Constructive dismissal type job?
It is a shame..... i've got a soft spot for Crytek Nottingham because they use to be Free Radical.
Just look at this though... http://www.crytek.com/career/studios/overview/nottingham
Got a list of job perks.
It is a shame..... i've got a soft spot for Crytek Nottingham because they use to be Free Radical.
Just look at this though... http://www.crytek.com/career/studios/overview/nottingham
Got a list of job perks.
Associate
- Joined
- 15 Dec 2008
- Posts
- 647
Screwed over there core market, now going out of business.
Not really surprising, maybe they should have stuck with the PC guys and made a decent Crysis sequel rather than running over to the console crowd and finding they don't even like Crysis 2.
Of course the obligatory, blame the pirates excuse also did not help, own up to your failures if it was good people would have bought it, i knew it was a console focused COD clone and avoided it until it was down to a price that reflects the effort they put into it.
Not really surprising, maybe they should have stuck with the PC guys and made a decent Crysis sequel rather than running over to the console crowd and finding they don't even like Crysis 2.
Of course the obligatory, blame the pirates excuse also did not help, own up to your failures if it was good people would have bought it, i knew it was a console focused COD clone and avoided it until it was down to a price that reflects the effort they put into it.
Soldato
Having 800 odd staff and about three games in development isn't sustainable.
They sell themselves as a ready to go developer and pitch for projects with the main publishers. Not a sustainable business model.
If you look at EA or Ubisoft, they generally take on contractors after the game is penned and keep the good ones to join other studios they've swallowed up.
They will finish Homefront, but they will have to drastically downsize soon.