Crytek to close 5 studios

[zMeul]

source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-20-crytek-breaks-silence-lets-go-of-multiple-studios

 

 

after the reports Crytek is no longer paying their employees on time,Crytek's Avni Yerli speaks:

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Undergoing such transitions is far from easy, and we'd like to sincerely thank each and every staff member - past and present - for their hard work and commitment to Crytek.
These changes are part of the essential steps we are taking to ensure Crytek is a healthy and sustainable business moving forward that can continue to attract and nurture our industry's top talent. The reasons for this have been communicated internally along the way.
Our focus now lies entirely on the core strengths that have always defined Crytek - world-class developers, state-of-the-art technology and innovative game development, and we believe that going through this challenging process will make us a more agile, viable, and attractive studio, primed for future success.

 

rumors indicate that mail.ru (also involved in Armored Warfare) will buy off WarFace

Crytek's studios in Budapest, Sofia, Seoul, Shanghai and Istanbul will be closed

 

also, Crytek has issued a press release: http://crytek.com/news/crytek-outlines-future-plans-and-focuses-on-return-to-core-competencies

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As part of the changes, Crytek will concentrate on development in its Frankfurt and Kiev studios and continue to develop and work on premium IPs. CRYENGINE will remain a core pillar of Crytek’s overall strategy, with enterprise licensees and indie developers alike continuing to be served by regular engine updates. All other development studios will not remain within Crytek and management has put plans into action to secure jobs and to ensure a smooth transition and stable future.

 

[Guest]

Can it close Crysis? Yeah sure it did

[Delicieuxz]

CryTek's big-title games have a particular personality, which I don't feel is represented by other games. I hope that we'll be getting more graphics-pushing AAA FPS titles from CryTek in the future, and it sort of sounds as though that's what Avni is looking towards with this quote:

 

"Our focus now lies entirely on the core strengths that have always defined Crytek - world-class developers, state-of-the-art technology and innovative game development, and we believe that going through this challenging process will make us a more agile, viable, and attractive studio, primed for future success."

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Can it close Crysis? Yeah sure it did

one of the biggests issues Crytek had is that their games were nothing more than benchmarks, or outright junk (Homefront: The Revolution)

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, zMeul said:

one of the biggests issues Crytek had is that their games were nothing more than benchmarks, or outright junk (Homefront: The Revolution)

They should have just quit game-making outright and gone into GPU graphics benchmarking instead, like Futuremark.

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, Delicieuxz said:

CryTek's big-title games have a particular personality

that's the problem, they don't

 

[Delicieuxz]

2 minutes ago, zMeul said:

that's the problem, they don't

The Crysis series definitely has a particular personality and gameplay-style - one that I enjoy a lot, and would like to have more of.

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, Delicieuxz said:

Crysis

Crysis and personality is like oil and water, they don't mix

if you say Crysis has personality, then you lowered the bar a lot

[Delicieuxz]

3 minutes ago, zMeul said:

Crysis and personality is like oil and water, they don't mix

if you say Crysis has personality, then you lowered the bar quite low

You're looking for the personality in the wrong places. The main characters don't have a lot of personality at the beginning - though development of their personalities grows a bit in the 2nd and 3rd title. However, the sci-fi story elements and the environments present a lot of personality. And the gameplay of each title is of its own kind in the FPS genre, and, to me, is quite fun.

[RagnarokDel]

Poor management lead to this.

[Misanthrope]

Hopefully this will help them out of their financial Crysis.

[VerticalDiscussions]

If Crysis dies, so does PC Gaming, smh!  

[Nizkus]

31 minutes ago, zMeul said:

one of the biggests issues Crytek had is that their games were nothing more than benchmarks, or outright junk (Homefront: The Revolution)

You mean that game developed by deeps silver (sure, it was started by crytek, but Deep Silver bought it in 2014)

[Linus_torvalds]

Crysis 3 is the most optimized game to the day IMHO.

I remember when i bought i7 3770k + GTX 660 i did not had money for RAM (i wanted 2133 MHZ 1.5 v ram) I had to put in that computer old 1333 mhz 2 GB RAM. 

I installed on that machine x64 windows 7 and Crysis 3 of course. (At that time i so wanted to play that game at high settings)

I remember when i was playing game computer was using 1.8 GB RAM. x64 OS + Crysis 3 at high settings with 2 GB VRAM.

Todays games are just shit. They use shitload of RAM + VRAM and still have worse graphics then 3 year old crysis 3 LOL

Oh and the original crysis i have finished on i3 540 OCed 4.1 GHZ + it's shitty HD graphics + 4 GB RAM.

[ThinkWithPortals]

46 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Hopefully this will help them out of their financial Crysis.

*claps slowly*

[Master Disaster]

RIP I guess, never really like Crysis anyway so its no great loss.

 

Wonder if this will affect RSI and SC in any way?

[Bouzoo]

2 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Hopefully this will help them out of their financial Crysis.

It goes like this.

 

 

Hopefully this will help them out of their financial... Crysis.

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[christianled59]

Crysis was an eyecandy game that was a bore to play through. Crysis 3 felt like 50% cutscenes and 50% generic shooter. A beautiful, generic shooter.

[Zodiark1593]

Original Crysis on Medium settings and 720p actually ran surprisingly well on my laptop's Radeon 5470. Any other game that tried to cram through shadow effects completely choked. Ultra settings were obviously not meant for the hardware of the time, and more like a slideshow preview of what is to come. 

 

Also, original Crysis was (to my knowledge) the first game to utilize ambient occlusion. Given how true indirect lighting via Ray tracing is still absurdly expensive, this is a very valuable effect. Would be nice to have Ray traced indirect lighting to replace AO in the near future though. 

 

I do hope the developers continue turning their testbeds into games. 

[RotoCoreOne]

Question is... are the employees going to be paid before being laid off?

[Agosto]

Please don't die Crytek

Our children need a future in which they can ask "can it run Crysis" while talking about new on-eye VR gaming platforms

[Doobeedoo]

Damn. I'd like to see new Crysis game, hopefully one day.

[mrchow19910319]

5 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

Crysis 3 is the most optimized game to the day IMHO.

I remember when i bought i7 3770k + GTX 660 i did not had money for RAM (i wanted 2133 MHZ 1.5 v ram) I had to put in that computer old 1333 mhz 2 GB RAM. 

I installed on that machine x64 windows 7 and Crysis 3 of course. (At that time i so wanted to play that game at high settings)

I remember when i was playing game computer was using 1.8 GB RAM. x64 OS + Crysis 3 at high settings with 2 GB VRAM.

Todays games are just shit. They use shitload of RAM + VRAM and still have worse graphics then 3 year old crysis 3 LOL

Oh and the original crysis i have finished on i3 540 OCed 4.1 GHZ + it's shitty HD graphics + 4 GB RAM.

I think crysis 2 and 3 was not that popular was because no one play its multiplayer mode. 

Single player mode is really hard to produce, it takes a lot of time and money to build. Multiplayer mode is relatively easy to build for the devs. And that's where the money comes in. New DLCs, new maps, new weapons/skins etc. I really enjoyed crysis 2 and 3. I remembered playing 2 for several times. And there are a lot of conspiracy theories that on the internet which says EA held back Crytek purposely. I think to some extend it is true. I have not played crysis 1 before. But people who did, all said that 2 and 3 are trash compares to it. Not sure why. 

[matrix07012]

This is what happens when you lower your standarts to accommodate consoles. Your signature IP goes to shit...

Warface is pretty fun though.

[ADM-Ntek]

16 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

RIP I guess, never really like Crysis anyway so its no great loss.

 

Wonder if this will affect RSI and SC in any way?

not in a negative way. they bought all the rights years ago so they don´t depend on CryTek. it might even be positive they always search for people with cry engine expertise.