Wunray
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Yo that gif is trippy.Id tech, CryTech, Slip Engine= Mind bending Crisis Reboot. If that is true, then pc players with 3090 are in for a treat. MS $$$$ is giving us hell blade 2, Avowed. Imagine What can they do with that money.
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Papacheeks
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Building it now means how far behind they will be in terms of quality software, and work in how to use different things with specifics to controller? They would have to allow third party at this point unless they are developing their own.
If you want a better seamless VR experience to me it's going to by Sony outside of PC.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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A poorly managed studio barely hanging onto its own existence and with no notable, commercially successful owned IP doesn't make sense for MS at any price.
No matter how cheap they are, the main studio talent could leave and the whole studio pack up a month after purchase. It's too much of a risk for very little conceivable gain.
It's not even as if CryEngine has much value either. It's far worse supported middleware engine that nowhere near as comprehensive or technologically advanced as UE.
With the Bethesda purchase, MS owns ID Tech now, so that makes CryEngine even less of a meaningful value proposition.
There really is no upside to buying CryTek in their current state. They've never shipped a hit game and in recent years have been running perpetually close to studio closure.
ResilientBanana
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Crytek has CryEngine that developers license out and can be used internally. Something like that is very valuable for Microsoft and brings in money in and of itself. Outside of that, the Crysis IP has a lot of weight in it's name. If they reboot it the right way and as a graphical power house that's a win for Microsoft. That being said, Microsoft has no reason to buy Crytek and I don't see how they fit in the Xbox Studio family other than clout.
SEGAvangelist
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The Ryse IP could develop into a Sony style 3rd person story based character action title if handled properly, and Xbox could use something in that genre.
oldergamer
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I think so. no idea why the discussion carried on after that was posted.
Fake
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SEGA
ResilientBanana
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What a terrible flagship IP.
01011001
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for Ryse to become good it would literally need to be a completely new game... this game is beyond dogshit in every way.
so why use an iP that is known to be shit, and not just make a new one?
sobaka770
Banned
Crytek? Really? That company in my view has not released a single truly great game.
Most of their stuff is propped up by the graphics engine tech while the gameplay is utterly mediocre. I guess Far Cry was good for its time but it aged poorly and don't get my started on Crysis and its sequels.
I don't think MS has much to gain by buying Crytek apart from tech and then again not too many other devs are using CryEngine so there must be a reason for that.
MS really doesn't need more studios at this point imo anyway.
Most of their stuff is propped up by the graphics engine tech while the gameplay is utterly mediocre. I guess Far Cry was good for its time but it aged poorly and don't get my started on Crysis and its sequels.
I don't think MS has much to gain by buying Crytek apart from tech and then again not too many other devs are using CryEngine so there must be a reason for that.
MS really doesn't need more studios at this point imo anyway.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Id tech, CryTech, Slip Engine= Mind bending Crisis Reboot. If that is true, then pc players with 3090 are in for a treat. MS $$$$ is giving us hell blade 2, Avowed. Imagine What can they do with that money.
I got stuck looking at this gif for like 3 minutes straight waiting for something else to happen lol
AlteredForms
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This is huge. Can you imagine CryEngine with Microsoft funding?
Spidey Fan
Banned
was the same for me. who ever made this is genius,
onesvenus
Member
Why would they do that? The main studio talent that's there while Crytek is in bad shape leaving when they get an injection of money does not make sense at all
Saucy Papi
Member
Because they can get them for cheap and invest money into the studio to turn it around. Much quicker and cheaper than building a studio from scratch. Not saying that's what's happening but I could certainly see it going that way.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Buying Crytek wouldn't change anything. Seriously, has their game moved the needle on anything aside from taking points.
MS buying Ubisoft or Call of Duty would be HUGE.
MS buying Ubisoft or Call of Duty would be HUGE.
metareferential
Member
They should do it:
Step 1) buy the tech;
Step 2) scrap the shit Halo 6 is and develop it with Cryengine for XsX only.
Step 3) Profit.
Step 1) buy the tech;
Step 2) scrap the shit Halo 6 is and develop it with Cryengine for XsX only.
Step 3) Profit.
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twilo99
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How does one buy "call of duty" ? They would have to buy Activision which is never going to happen.
I must say, the modern warfare 2019 engine is absolutely stellar tho.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Re-read my last post. I addressed the issue of CryEngine. It has next to no value for MS. It's never going to be able to compete with UE on cost or features and as such barely anyone uses it today.
The Crysis IP is not a commercially successful one, nor has it even faired all that well critically after Warhead. In which case, I'm not sure how else you can define "clout" in a way that is meaningful to the MS financier's assessing the business case of an acquisition.
With ID Software, MS already has a tech. powerhouse in-house. And there's really nothing stopping them from signing an exclusive 3rd party publishing agreement with Crytek to make Crysis games exclusive for Xbox/GamePass, if they really really want to take the risk on revitalizing that dead franchise.... that would be a much lower risk alternative to buying up the entire studio who have been super hit-and-miss in terms of game dev quality since Crysis Warhead.
I can think of a hundred reasons... for one if they dislike or find they can't work with the new studio management structure. There's a good reason why MGS doesn't own many non-US-based dev studios. MS is a very quintessentially American company, and so their studio management/publisher corporate culture may not mesh well with a principally European studio like CryTek.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
crytek are technical wizards but their games stink. would probably make a hell of a support studio for places like inxile and double fine who are not tech wizards.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I don't understand the purchase, unless they want to turn them into the dedicated tech studio.
prinz_valium
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Microsoft wants to be the game developer backbone. They need some general purpose engine to license and sell.
Shifty1897
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Crytek's basically bankrupt so they would be a cheap buy, but they don't bring any value to the Microsoft portfolio.
Shifty1897 is stamping this rumor F for false.
Shifty1897 is stamping this rumor F for false.
VN1X
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Rocco Schiavone
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Like they did with Sega every wednesday.
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