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Crytek UK staff no longer going to work

The bulk of employees at Crytek's UK office are no longer going to work, according to people familiar with the situation - Kotaku

windblowsagain4015d ago

Bye Crytek.

Too many bad decisions imo.

Ryse was one.

Nobody cares about crysis games. Just kill the game off for good.

Expanding while not doing well enough is poor judgement.

Hopefully the engine will survive.

-Foxtrot4015d ago

Their arrogance finally caught up with them

They had a good thing with Far Cry and Crysis but they had to go and spoil it.

PR_FROM_OHIO4015d ago

Yep they were more concerned running there mouths about other devs when they should've been worried about making good games rather then over hyped games!!

bouzebbal4015d ago

can't agree more on the arrogance part!

Eonjay4015d ago

Ryse can't be their last release. Oh God no.

mikeslemonade4015d ago

Crytek made bland games. If it wasn't a graphics spectacle then it was bland like Far Cry and Ryse.

It's like eating chicken without any skin or seasoning. Too bland..

brave27heart4015d ago

Its their own fault, simply because they're sitting on the timesplitters licence and refusing to make a game with it. Thats a licence to print money and they wasted it.

Serves them right. Shame for the staff though.

darren_poolies4015d ago

Homefront Revolution might be their last release.

guitarded774015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

You guys do know that Cyrtek UK was kinda recently purchased by Crytek and was formally Free Radical Design. They had a lot of serious failures before Crytek bought them including mismanaging millions from LucasArts for Star Wars Battlefront III. Just want to clarify what Crytek UK is. Personally, I had doubts about the acquisition to begin with.

SilentNegotiator4014d ago

They should have made the Crytek engine affordable from the start. That might have saved them.

abstractel4014d ago

I enjoyed Crysis 1 and 3. Ryse was technically beautiful but extremely repetitive. Homeland looks fantastic, I'm a bit afraid of what's going to happen to it now.

I definitely think they made some poor decisions but I also feel that after Far Cry / Crysis, PC gamers were unnecessarily harsh on them for going multiplatform which spilled into the media. Crysis 2 wasn't a bad game but they probably should of called it something different so it didn't have the open world expectations on it. Crysis 3 looked like a next-gen game when it came out on PCs and was lots of fun IMO with great weapons and I particularly really enjoyed the tech crossbow.

It's a shame that Ryse had such horrible game design considering the effort and beauty that went into that game. It was just so repetitive.

I hope they survive but I am sure another studio will rise (no pun intended) up from the talent that made up Crytek UK. Hopefully with better game designers.

UltraNova4014d ago

'Ryse can't be their last release. Oh God no.'

Hahaahah, it wasn't that bad dude common my friend had a blast...for 2 hours then went out and exchanged it for cod ghosts. Seriously I'm not bullshiting you. 4 months later he got a ps4...(no he didnt sell his Xb1- Quantum break!).

Its a shame Crytek is essentially disintegrating ...I 'm sure the vultures are watching and waiting until their close to their last heart beat to swoop in a offer to save them at their lowest acquisition price possible of course...

One question remains, based on their choices so far do they deserve their fate?

LonDonE4014d ago

@thunderbear
crytek where spending more then they made, plain and simple!!!

on another note, I LOVED THE CRYSIS 1,2 and 3.
I dont understand why crysis 2 gets the hate that it does, it as a awesome fps single player game working around the limitations of 512mb consoles! the maps are designed with so much freedom and let you engage the enemy how you want, for a city based game the environments where very vertical and open! just like crysis 1 which was not a open world game this is a fallacy!

I would so buy a Crysis trilogy remake in native 1080p at a locked 60fps on my PS4/X1!! i would buy it in a heart beat! i think the crysis games were meant to be played at 60fps!
STEALTH ENGAGED!!! LOL

Vladplaya4014d ago

They had a good thing with FarCry 1, everything else after are just random games that use FarCry name. Not saying those are bad games, but making games that have nothing to do with each other while slapping FarCry name on the box to make money off it, was never a good idea either.

ChronoJoe4014d ago

Poor free radical, they deserve stable employment.

christian hour4014d ago

Crytek UK, they used to be Pandemic... Though I dunno how many of the original team were still there, if any. Such a shame to see that studio go through the same thing twice in less than a decade.

This is eerily reminiscent of how that news broke too "Pandemic Studios staff no longer going to work". Next day we get leaked footage of in house dev tests of SWBF and some concept art for a new Timesplitters.

Hopefully this frees up the Timesplitters IP to be purchased by a studio passionate enough to deliver the game we've all beign waiting for, instead of sitting on it like Crytek have been.

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AngelicIceDiamond4015d ago

While I agree on some cases your not speaking for everyone here though.

The PC crowd largely respects Crytek's work.

F4sterTh4nFTL4015d ago

Since Crysis 2 even the PC crowd lost respect for Crytek.

-Foxtrot4015d ago

I think the minute they turned their back on the PC community with Crysis 2 they lost most of that respect. From what I recall they didn't like them sucking up to Microsoft and focusing too much on the 360 or consoles in general

HeWhoWalks4015d ago

Thank you! To say: "nobody cares about Crysis" is silly. Plenty of people still do and if Crytek fully goes under, it will be a sad state of affairs for many in the PC community.

badz1494015d ago

Yeah, pc gamers be like "oh no, what games are going to max out my Titan GPU now?"

WitWolfy4014d ago

Respect doesn't necessarily pay the bills.

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DeathOfTheFanBoy4015d ago

Ryse was not a bad decision, I agree the mechanics could have done with more fine tuning but they stepped out of the FPS box... a good thing!
Also, I LOVED Ryse, really wanted a squeal, doubt that'll ever happen now though.

zidane13414015d ago

Ryse was the shit. Screw any haters, they can go back to whatever ADHD game they came crawling from. Ryse had a great story, and great action. very varied settings too. People are so annoying.

TheWatercooler4015d ago

It was a bad decision to make it Xbox one exclusive. Microsoft destroy studios

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abstractel4014d ago

It was so damn repetitive. If it was a 4 hour game it would have been fun, but the same exact weapons and combat techniques fighting the exact same shaped humans for 10 hours doesn't make a great game. God of War 1-3 did so well because they really mixed up the enemies and you really felt progression as you leveled up your weapons.

Automatic794014d ago (Edited 4014d ago )

RYSE was a great game most people knocking it never played it and are going off of reviews from gaming websites. Personally, I thought a sequel was coming this was definitely a franchise MS could have build upon.

Note to MS please save crytek and bring the sequel to RYSE love that game.

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KnightRobby4015d ago

I know one of the employees there via Facebook. They left Crytek happily and took a pic of themselves with a lighter and a firetruck outside of the building. It appears the hate for Crytek has grown and is very real, especially among employees.

Such a shame. If only someone else could have taken the reigns of the company before this apparent fiasco.

zidane13414015d ago

blah blah blah. Ryse was fun as hell, you hater.

True_Samurai4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

Ryse did not put Crytek in the situation they're in now. MS funded and paid them to make the game. It wouldn't have hurt them none since it was all paid for by Ms. All they had to do was make the game and collect their share from the sales. But leave it to a Sony fanboy to try & find a reason to blame MS

SuperBlur4015d ago

"Ryse 2 was cancelled because of a conflict between Crytek and Microsoft over who would own the rights to the franchise. In exchange for funding Ryse 2's development, Microsoft wanted to take over the Ryse intellectual property, something Crytek couldn't agree to, so both parties decided not to continue."

draw your own conclusion from this , i personally think they didn't want to get in bed with MS again because they lost too much revenue from going exclusive to xbox 1 .

With the money they got from the deal , they had to pay maintenance cost of the studio , which include paying the employees .. what do you need to keep your employees working ? Money? If you release a game and you can't keep paying your employees, what's missing from your studio? Profits?

I'd say , Ryse exclusive to Xbox 1 was their biggest mistake , waste of time and money.

trancefreak4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

The biggest issue with crytek is their inability to produce game bug fixes and game patches. The community begged them to fix game problems especially crysis 2 and they fell on a deaf ear.

There is more to it than that especially by removing the sdk which can kill a community of people whom try to produce all types of mods, art pieces, games etc which pretty much sealed the fate of the community.

cj1pate1014015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

You do realize crytek uk is filled with most of the people at free radical games? Some of those same people helped make golden eye 64 and perfect dark. SO please stfu about something you knw jack shit about..

GiantEnemyCrab4015d ago

What didn't you like about Ryse? Just curious because your name is windblowsagain, your blog is nothing but PlayStation.

Dead_Cell4014d ago

The bit where it goes in another console.

SaturdayNightBeaver4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

PC gamers cared about crisis , then crisis 2 came out. im glad they're going down , i really am. you can't go full peasant as game company and expect to last so long. Next stop, Ubisoft?? Please!

Ausbo4014d ago

wishing companies to go out of business is not cool. Because with that comes loss of jobs.

Eyeco4015d ago

I feel sorry for the Free Radical guys
*Timesplitters 4 development hell
* Haze= poor critical and commercial reception
* Free Radical going down under
*Being aqquired by a lousy company (Crytek)
* Lousy management, unpaid labour

And now this, the poor guys cant catch a break, majes me wonder if we'll ever see TS4 what a shame.

showtimefolks4014d ago

farcry 1 awesome
crysis 1 awesome
time splitter awesome

Ryse more tech demo than an actual game
crysis 2 okat at best
crysis 3 boring/dull/chore to play

I am not expecting anything special from Homefront 2 either

If i was running Crytek than it would be such a power house company, it seems to me when they make their engines that they get very little feedback from developers/developers needs. On the other Hand Epic does it totally different

I would make sure there will be a time splitter HD collection on ps4,xbox oen,wiiu,ps3 and xbox360(easily 3 plus million in sales)

I would go back to what made crysis 1 so much fun, than i would also like to see what was amazing about farcry 1. I would ask my developers to mix both and make one kick ass game.

when will these companies realize there is money to be made.

Capcom we want games like original resident evil with action that is geared more towards RE4

we want meagaman X/Meagman series

we want a street fighter that doesn't get 3 more version of same game within 12-18 months

we don't want on disk dlc that you have to pay for

square enix:

where is next dues ex?
FF7 remake easy money
FF15 put more peple into team, it has to come out fall 2015
KH3 has to come out by mid 2016
a complete KH HD collection for ps4(possibly xbox one)

Its not hard to make money if you just listen to your damn fanbase

elninels4014d ago

Come on man. Way to state the obvious. Do you think they are utterly unaware of what the consumer wants?

Execution is what matters in game develo moment, bussiness, and everything else ever really.

You're whole "plan" is so very vague.

Its like saying "if I were a general manager I would just sign the best players and have my coaches run the best plays"

showtimefolks4014d ago

elninels

no it doesn't apply yo sports theory.

SE own those IP's so nothing is stopping them for making those games. The sues ex team could have made 2 more dues ex games by now.

Ausbo4014d ago

i actually had a lot of fun with ryse. I don't understand all the hate. yeah it was repetitive, but so are a lot of other games.

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F4sterTh4nFTL4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

Oh Dear, I am afraid this is the end of Crytek as we know it, I don't see them recovering from this. Far Cry 1, Crysis 1 and Crysis: Warhead were amazing, everything after that was just bad decision after another that has led to this.

mikel10154015d ago

Dang, I wonder what will happen to the Timesplitters IP?

-Foxtrot4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

If Sony are smart, they'll buy it when it goes up for sale when Crytek go bust.

Timesplitters - Sony

Crysis - PC/Xbox One

Team_Litt4015d ago (Edited 4015d ago )

Lol. Sony buying anything. . .from someone going bust. Irony.

-Foxtrot4015d ago

It's just an IP, not a company.

imt5584015d ago

Todd Papy couldn't imagine what will happen at Crytek in near future! Well, maybe he will return to Santa Monica.

MrTimesplitters4014d ago

I rather see it go to Nintendo rather than Sony as free radical was composed of ex rare members and is a fitting place for Timesplitters. I also wouldn't want to see it as a exclusive to PS4 either. But in the end I just hope it doesn't die and I hope this doesn't effect the development of Time splitters Rewind.

masterfox4015d ago

damn that really sucks, I hate when somebody looses his job . I hope they go back to its roots Crytek are very talended. They just need to get on the right track.

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DF Direct: Crysis 4's uncertain future is a grim portend for the industry

Crysis 4 is "on hold" and Crytek is facing layoffs - so what does that mean for the company that was once Germany's biggest games dev + the industry as a whole?

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PrinceOfAnger132d ago

I really want to see a Crysis 4 with all the ray-tracing & path-tracing effects. It would be a shame if they canceled the project. Maybe they could do a kickstarter?

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" Crysis is something of a tentpole game series for us at Digital Foundry, with a reputation for being an early adopter of graphics technologies that would later define entire generations of PC and console video games. That includes the likes of screen-space ambient occlusion, sub-surface scattering and ray-marched volumetric lighting, but you could write volumes about just how ground-breaking that first game was "

isarai132d ago

I really hope they come out and push the industry forward like they used to. I miss old crytek

PrinceOfAnger130d ago

They all look disappointed by this news especially Alex

JEECE129d ago

Pretty sad that the studio that gave us a monumental game like Crysis is now subsisting on microtransactions from a live service PVPVE game.

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Crysis 4 put "on hold" as developer Crytek is next studio hit by layoffs

Crysis developer Crytek is the next studio hit by layoffs, as it announces it's set to lose an estimated 15 percent of its 400 employees.

RaidenBlack138d ago

Why'd the day start with such sad gaming news?
Absolutely disheartening.

Jingsing138d ago

Maybe putting The Power Rangers in Hunt Showdown will get you some money back. (sarcasm)

Kassanova07138d ago

I'm always rooting for Crytek.

P_Bomb137d ago

I’m rooting for Crysis. Hope they work it out.

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Crytek Wanted Crysis To Be "Future-Proof"

According to Crytek CEO Cervat Yerli, "I want[ed] to make sure Crysis does not age, that [it] is future proofed, meaning that if I played it three years from now, it should look better than today." Yerli and the team designed Crysis' highest graphical settings for the PC hardware of 2010 and beyond.

While Crytek has officially announced Crysis 4 is in development, nothing new has surfaced. For now, gamers' only way to scratch that itch is to play the Crysis Remastered Trilogy available on PC and consoles.

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RaidenBlack161d ago

OG 2007 Crysis (not the remastered weirdo), is & will forever be a legend amongst the PC community.

PrinceOfAnger161d ago

This video will always be impressive to me, even for years to come. Some things here are better than games we have today, OG crysis is the best version!

https://youtu.be/SVg63_aNr-...

RaidenBlack160d ago

OG Crysis physics, man ... amazing! Thanks for the reminder!

PrinceOfAnger160d ago (Edited 160d ago )

Looks really nice with VR mod too

FinalFantasyFanatic160d ago

I'm still shocked that it looks as good as it does today, puts some modern games to shame.

Profchaos159d ago

I thought the remaster was fine tbh some rough edges at launch but after some patches it's decent

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isarai160d ago

I mean the lighting and physics still hold up extremely well. I still revisit it from time to time.

RedDeadLB160d ago

That CPU performance thing is preventing it.

isarai159d ago

Yeah unfortunately Crystek's decision to bet on the linear progression of clock speed in CPUs was derailed by the unforseen shift towards multicore CPUs. It just wasn't built with that in mind because that wasn't even in the conversation at the moment

DivineHand125160d ago

I remember when I tried to play Crysis with my Intel Pentium Dual core E2200 @2.2GHz , 4GB ram and GeForce 9400gt. I was a kid back then and that was the best I could do. I would get about 15 to 20 fps. When I over clocked the CPU to 2.8GHz I would get about 40fps. The experience wasn't good at all and it was the only PC game I could not run back then unless and put the settings on low. At that point the game went from cutting edge graphics to PS2 graphics. To this day I haven't completed the OG Crysis. I was able to complete Crysis 2 and 3 after building a new PC when I got my first job.

HyperMoused160d ago

Never played it, worth a try you think?

Profchaos159d ago (Edited 159d ago )

Worth a try just because it's the only game that lets you pick up a turtle on the beach and throw it at enemy soldiers that should have been a back of the box feature.

But nah seriously unless you're nostalgic for it I'm not sure if it will hold up

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