As much as the article is trying to make you feel bad for Crytek, this is just a consequence of their choices. They gambled and lost. It’s going to be a shame not having them around on the off chance they actually start being good again, but besides their engine, which is very little used anyway, they haven’t done anything worthwhile in quite awhile.
So how does this work with Far Cry, did Crytek sell that to Ubisoft? I just haven’t been paying attention.
Far Cry totally belongs to Ubisoft, Crytek only made the first game.
Crytek says it’s all bollocks and they’re not going bankrupt: https://www.vg247.com/2014/06/23/crysis-and-ryse-developer-could-be-in-trouble-report/
I love that the pic they use for the article is from the original crysis. It is kinda sad that their best game was from 2007
“It is kinda sad that their best game was from 2007”
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Valve says hi!
Ummm… Portal 2 is from 2011.
You wish you worked for valve
Their employees say BS:
https://kotaku.com/sources-crytek-not-paying-staff-on-time-ryse-sequel-d-1594967505
EP2 > Portal 2
So, uh, if Crytek does go under, what happens to Cryengine? Will it be released as open source? Become abandonware? Will the patent and source be sold to the highest bidder?
I’m not the biggest fan of it’s editing interface aside from the ability to drop in the game at any time and place, but it would still be sad to see it become deprecated.
It would probably just die unless Crytek sells it to someone. I imagine there would be plenty of people willing to buy it (maybe, it’s not used for too many games so maybe nobody wants it) but even if that happens it will be developed by someone else then. I agree it would be sad if Cryengine just disappeared.
Cryengine is really pretty, and can be really impressive at times. I’ve done some cool stuff with it, myself. That said, although it would be real a shame to see such cool tech go, I personally wouldn’t miss it a huge deal…
Crytek will most likely be bought by some company before it goes under. Their technology is too good to go to waste just like that.
well, they had a stupid business model and now they pay for it. Tbh, I don’t even really care if they go bankrupt, sure their engine is pretty awesome and all, but the games they make are almost never very remarkable apart from their graphics fidelity. Kinda logical though, that company started as a graphics demo company. Especially their last couple of games were just plain boring/terrible. I mean I was never a big fan of Crysis all to much, but there was one thing I liked about it: the openess of the world. They totally shat on that with the sequels. Apart from that I never really got why they always had to add aliens/mutants. I liked both Far Cry and Crysis quite a lot, until the second half of the game where you had these non-sensical aliens/mutants.
What surprises me though is that they just can’t get their engine sold to studios all that much. Compared to UE it’s nothing in that regard. Even UE1 had more games based on it than any CE has. Is it the developer support? The content pipeline?
Well lets see what they will come up with, but I kind of doubt they’ll have a bright future for now.
The licensing for CryEngine is to expensive for many companies to use it compared to UE
inb4 EA buys crytek
…and runs it deeper into the ground than it already is…