Crytek Boss Cevat Yerli On Unpaid Wages, Ryse 2 And The Future

"The transformation was painful. We paid the price"

Eurogamer exclusive interview with Crytek co-founder, Cevat Yerli, discussing the studio's recent financial troubles, the sale of Crytek UK and the Homefront IP, as well as their transition towards a free-to-play future.

[OpieWinston]

I'm getting a feeling their "Partner" is Deep Silver.

And after reading this article...I know for a fact not to trust anything Cryteks Yerli brothers say.

700 people working under you...And you think a majority of F2P games are going to sustain you?

You're jumping on the MOBA wagon when it's already a crowded market.
You're jumping on the F2P wagon when it's already a crowded market. Only game that did well was Warface in Russia and it didn't do well anywhere else.
Cryengine business isn't doing so well...Which currently is evident with the lack of Cryengine games being advertised to the public. (Could be more, but sales suggest otherwise)

Cevat Yerli thinks Crytek is safe... Are you delusional?

[DarkOcelet]

You guys were good at pc , did you seriously had to go multiplatform , you bet big but lost and its a shame to see and game company or dev having financial issues , i hope you sort your problems out ...

[johny5]

They turned their backs on PC, and it killed them!

[Dante81]

They were doing pretty well up until Crysis 2... The nads these guys had blaming the PC audience for Crysis not selling more than 3 million.

[Revengeance]

Crytek has no future

[lemoncake]

The competition in the engine market has hit them hard, unity and unreal engines offer great product to developers and a great pricing structure.

[Kingoftherodeo]

if crytek is to make a strong comeback come out with something everyone wants or sell to microsoft.

[Baka-akaB]

Dear god i just read a whole lot of BS from Cevat Yerli . The part about wages is dumbfounding .

Basically "we communicated , people are just being emotional" ??

"Some people live in very tight financial planning. That's their own privacy. They can do whatever they want. Those guys, when they get under pressure it can become emotional. We tried to individually help out. Like if somebody gets in trouble they can talk to us directly so they don't get under pressure. "

Seriously ?

"But you still needed to offload Homefront and Crytek UK.

Cevat Yerli: No. We didn't need to do this. We didn't need to downsize our company. Maybe this didn't come across. We didn't need to sell Homefront. That deal would have secured Crytek's future even if it would have added another 100 people on top of where we were before we sold Homefront or changed Austin's direction. It is an optimisation stage that we said we should do strategically right now in order to focus short term our mindset on the launch of Warface, Arena of Fate and Hunt. It wasn't a pure commercial deal. It was a strategic deal for focus. We didn't need to sell Homefront or the UK office."

Now this is a good comedy show

[Perjoss]

This Eurogamer interview was great, they really pulled some hard hitting questions, they didn't hold back at all. Heh it seemed more like a grilling than an interview.

[Ausbo]

yeah they kept pushing and pushing. you could tell he was getting a little ticked too. Haha

[Kribwalker]

That man is a huge snake in the grass...I wouldn't trust him to cut my lawn let alone be my boss

[Mikeyy]

Glad i never gave crytek a dime, I pirated crisis 1 and 2. Didn't bother with 3.

Fuck this guy.