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New Eurogamer article on the matter:

Eurogamer was contacted by a current employee of Crytek's main office in Frankfurt, who said staff there had not been paid for two months, and pay over the previous five months had been delayed by up to four weeks.

The source accused Crytek's embattled founders, brothers Cevat and Avni Yerli of failing to communicate properly with the company's increasingly angry workforce.

The source said the current belief is that Crytek has simply run out of cash, and while management are working on new deals, a rescue plan is taking longer than expected.

One source told Eurogamer staff aren't even sure if Cevat's still with the company, as he hasn't been seen in employee update meetings for months. His brother, Avni, has been the primary point of contact.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-13-crytek-once-again-in-crisis

 

[darkwing]

wow , what was Crytek's last work

 

[qanters]

wow , what was Crytek's last work

Pretty sure they just did a PSVR game

 

[Broken Joystick]

wow , what was Crytek's last work

It recently released Robinson: The Journey and The Climb - both well received VR games but neither money-making projects.

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[Alexious]

wow , what was Crytek's last work

Robinson: The Journey.

 

[Bedameister]

Yeah after the reports started coming month ago I thought that's it. Crytek is done I guess.
Hope people will land on their feet.
Man Germany really needs to step up their games development game.

 

[dracula_x]

wow , what was Crytek's last work

The Climb – Oculus VR
Robinson: The Journey – PlayStation VR
Arena of Fate (free-to-play) Windows PC

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Warface

basically VR games + FTP games

 

[FelipeMGM]

wow , what was Crytek's last work

They released 3 games in 2016

 

[comshoplesce]

lover wages? maybe they're too high? just guessing, how much do this people make a month? 3000/4000/5000€ or more?

CRYTEK = CRYSIS

see the irony here?

 

[TheSpoiler]

Didn't that one guy respond to some other person on Twitter about this saying everything was fine? He was a Crytek employee. It was in the other topic.

 

[jelly]

Sell Ryse to Microsoft. Crysis Trilogy or original remaster and Warhead for current consoles and modern PC set ups along with new mod tools.

 

[Vindicator]

 

[Zombine]

Didn't that one guy respond to some other person on Twitter about this saying everything was fine? He was a Crytek employee. It was in the other topic.

 

[sobaka770]

Crytek hasn't released a best-selling game in years. Even Crysis 3 wasnt that hot. But even then, you can't make Crysis money on VR games. The audience is just too small right now. It's like they don't want to make money any more.

I suppose they would like to sell their engine, though, wonder how that business is going.

 

[Doffen]

Amazon should buy them.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

They need to sell the Timesplitters IP instead of sitting on it, doing nothing with it. Make some cash and let someone like Sony or whoever give us a new game from this great IP.

 

[vaderise]

This explains a lot.

 

[Sesuadra]

Yeah after the reports started coming month ago I thought that's it. Crytek is done I guess.
Hope people will land on their feet.
Man Germany really needs to step up their games development game.

Feels like neuland

 

[comshoplesce]

so much cash can be made with CRYSIS TRILOGY REMASTERED for PS4/X1 or that game TIMESPLLITTERS?

 

[Dalibor68]

This explains a lot.

How does receiving what I assume must be a turkish videogame award from Erdogan explain payment problems?

 

[qanters]

They need to sell the Timesplitters IP instead of sitting on it, doing nothing with it. Make some cash and let someone like Sony or whoever give us a new game from this great IP.

Or at least get them re-released on the PSN store. Seems like bad business decisions have landed them in this situation. I hope they turn things around soon.

 

[KratosEnergyDrink]

Why they spend money for a VR game? The market for something like that is niche, fragmented and there is no money to make.

 

[kamandi]

yok artik

 

[mercenar1e]

I cant believe we are still talking about Crysis lol

a studio known for its FPS couldn't even finish Homefront The Revolution. The Crytek of old died years ago.

 

[VAD]

I thought they were making tons of money selling professional software to architects. That really is sad.

 

[Airan]

What I want to know is how did Crytek balloon up to the myriad of studios I keep hearing it had? Black Sea, UK, Ukraine, Hungary, even a fucking USA branch. Lmao there's also Korea and China branches!

Jesus it's like they just tried to expand without thinking of the consequences of rapidly adding a few hundred employees into the fold.

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

They should take that extra 20 bucks they got from me for Robinson on the PSN and pay their workers. Scumbags.

 

[CecilRousso]

It recently released Robinson: The Journey and The Climb - both well received VR games but neither money-making projects.

That seems to be a red line through Cryteks for years now, during their decline - always chasing the latest trends in the market.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

Or at least get them re-released on the PSN store. Seems like bad business decisions have landed them in this situation. I hope they turn things around soon.

Yeah I never understood why they acquired a fan favourite like Timesplitters and then did nothing with it, crazy when they could have done a new game, remaster or even a basic port and made cash from it.

 

[b0se]

Damn, this is actually very sad, they were one of my fav companies and Crysis is one of my fav series

How could this happen ? They've got CryEngine and some pretty good stuff there

 

[User123456]

After what Crysis turned into with Crysis 2, I can't say I'll miss Crytek too much. Also the total lack of TimeSplitters.

 

[TheWretched82]

Feels like neuland

Sure does. In South-Western Germany (which, besides Bavaria is the economically strongest region), there's virtually no "good" game developer, beside some smaller ones (Black Forest Games, for example).

My guess is, that the automotive industry snags up all good programmers. But that doesn't explain, why there's NOTHING.

If I had the opportunity, I might switch to game development, but not with bad pay and crunch...

Either way, I have a "source" about Crytek as well. But his info is old. However, he said that even some years ago, Crytek always was on the verge of bankruptcy. Not that this is interesting info now, though...

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Sell Ryse to Microsoft. Crysis Trilogy or original remaster and Warhead for current consoles and modern PC set ups along with new mod tools.

lol i don't think microsoft is buying

 

[Intel_89]

They should've stopped making games after Crysis 3 and just focus on pushing their own engine to other developers.

 

[mercenar1e]

lol i don't think microsoft is buying

I thought Microsoft wanted to purchase the rights of the sequel but Crytek denied to sell.

 

[LewieP]

People talking about Crysis Remasters, EA likely have the publishing rights to those games.

People saying they should sell Ryse to MS, I doubt MS would be buying.

They should sell the TimeSplitters IP, but i doubt it'd attract any buyers wanting to pay big bucks. Probably would be nuTHQ, and probably would be five figures or low six at a stretch.

 

[hwalker84]

I thought Microsoft wanted to purchase it at first but Crytek denied the sale lol

They wanted to buy the Ryse IP. Now Microsoft will probably wait and obtain it from their carcass.

 

[FelipeMGM]

Zenimax/Bethesda should scoop TimeSplitters. Get their single player FPS roster even stronger, and with a game a bit different from the ones they have now.

 

[fireflame]

Issues started soon after Crysis 3 if I remember well, even on the official forums many people had lost faith in them. The first Crysis was good, the second inferior and more linear, and the third even more disappointing.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

I thought Microsoft wanted to purchase the rights of the sequel but Crytek denied to sell.

that was when the game was still fresh

no one will give a fuck about ryse by the time they can get a sequel out if they start development now

 

[mercenar1e]

that was when the game was still fresh

no one will give a fuck about ryse by the time they can get a sequel out if they start development now

yeah it all comes down to horrible management decisions lol

 

[exmachina64]

I thought Microsoft wanted to purchase the rights of the sequel but Crytek denied to sell.

And now they can wait for Crytek to go out of business and buy it cheaply at auction.

 

[KratosEnergyDrink]

Sure does. In South-Western Germany (which, besides Bavaria is the economically strongest region), there's virtually no "good" game developer, beside some smaller ones (Black Forest Games, for example).

Shin'en for example has a steady release of good games, but almost exclusively on Nintendo. Their latest game, Fast Racing Neo, is really great and a technical marvel.

 

[Sjefen]

They need to make some deals fast or get some new investors. Selling of IP's is probably the last things on their rescue plan.

 

[Reki]

Are they publicly traded? I mean, they could be vulnerable to a takeover, but if things are as bad as they say nobody should be willing to step in...

If they don't have money they would have to start selling properties pretty soon. For a studio of around 700 employees (according to Wikipedia) a deal or two won't pay the bills.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Issues started soon after Crysis 3 if I remember well, even on the official forums many people had lost faith in them. The first Crysis was good, the second inferior and more linear, and the third even more disappointing.

hard to stay away from that console money breh

 

[OriginalJonty]

Zenimax/Bethesda shouls scoop TimeSplitters. Get their single player FPS roster even stronger, and with a game a bit different from the ones they have now.

Get Machine Games to work their magic like they did with Wolfenstein and you have a winner.

 

[Bedameister]

What I want to know is how did Crytek balloon up to the myriad of studios I keep hearing it had? Black Sea, UK, Ukraine, Hungary, even a fucking USA branch. Lmao there's also Korea and China branches!

Jesus it's like they just tried to expand without thinking of the consequences of rapidly adding a few hundred employees into the fold.

Yeah that's probably exactly what happened.

 

[Vindicator]

They need to make some deals fast or get some new investors. Selling of IP's is probably the last things on their rescue plan.

Besides the Erdogan pic being from 2015, maybe he'll approach them to develop an epic fps where aliens are replaced with pkk-cyborgs that turned turkey into new-kurdistan and in the besieged presidential palace you are given the honorable task to end the oppression.

 

[Bamboo]

yikes i had no idea. Feel bad for the employees.