Things are definitely not looking good for both Crytek and the new Homefront title. Last month, we informed you about the difficulties the German studio is currently facing and today, Kotaku reported that the game’s director has resigned. So yes, Crytek is going downhill as we speak unless the company somehow finds a way to: a) deny all the latest rumors with facts instead of PR statements and b) miracle happens.
As Kotaku claimed, Homefront: The Revolution’s game director Hasit Zala (who was also director of Warface) resigned from his position at Crytek UK. And Hasit is not the only one that has left Crytek.
“Crytek UK development manager Ben Harris also left the studio this month, and a number of other people have either left or are openly looking for new employment as of this week, sources say. The exact number is hard to pin down, as Crytek UK is in flux as staff await news on the studio’s future, but the departures includes senior leadership—just two weeks ago, studio head Karl Hilton confirmed to me that he was leaving his role, though he said he plans to stay within the company.”
Kotaku also reported that both Crytek and Deep Silver denied to comment about this latest story, something that should worry all those interested in this new Homefront title.
Our guess is that if Crytek goes down, Deep Silver will get the franchise and give it to another developer. Of course, that’s the worst-case scenario.
Moreover, it remains a mystery what will happen to CRYENGINE if Crytek goes down. Pitty, as CRYENGINE has a lot of potential.
Stay tuned for more!
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im expecting the next news to be “Homefront The Revolution cancelled” and the next one will be Crytek shuts down, another victim of EA.
WTF are you talking about??? Crytek killed Crytek by expanding too fast for their own good :
Maybe the truth lies somewhere between the two? EA likely threw a lot of money at Crytek, thereby starving them of motivation/ innovation. A company that struggles to become successful usually works much harder and learns more about success than a company that is granted money. Maybe. That’s just a theory.
I’m pretty sure he replied to his “EA ruined them” point.
I have been saying this for years.
Crytek isnt that sucessfull yet they keep expanding despite not having the funds.
Their desperation to become the next Ubishit w/o an annual money-maker (ex. AC/COD) has finally caught up to them.
HUR DUR if crysis was on consoles it would sell 5 times as much as it did on pc HUR DURRR……suck it Cevat.
it’s kind of sad to watch. if only their business sense matched up with the technical. i like the way the Cryengine looks more than any other. when I want to impress console noobs with graphics I always pull up Crysis 3 on my PC.
I blame Cevat Yerli for this mess . He could’ve built loyal fanbase , like Valve and Blizzard did with PC gamers . Instead , he made a deal with the devil .
Whose the devil?
Probably EA? Or maybe the Devil was glutony? Crytek became a rather bloated company very quickly.
EA + Consoles in the case of Crytek. Too much complaining about the PC-Exclusive Crysis not selling well enough, “justifying” the move to Multi-Platform for Crysis 2+ (& by extension creating the abomination that Crysis 2 was).
Yerli & co expanded too much too fast, they’ve got 8 Studios right now, half of which were dedicated to one shoddy, poorly made F2P project (only to be moved to the joke that was Ryse), while the other half are struggling along on whatever-the-fuck they’re doing, if anything at all.
Much like Blizzard, Electronic Arts, CCP Games etc. bad Management is tanking this company as well.
Or Crytek could have just remained a single large studio like Gearbox…also established in 1999.
yup most of his statements are nonsense.
I hope they get there crap together. Homefront and Hunt are looking great….
Crytek games have been going downhill since they failed to build on the strengths of the original Crysis. Games usually progress from a corridor shooter to open-world, not the other way around!
Anyway, I won’t miss them. I am a bit worried about what the death of Crytek will mean for Star Citizen, which uses the CRYENGINE.
I’m assuming that many of these laid off engineers will get snatched up by Cloud Imperium Games if Crytek closes.
i personally like the cryengine very much and only for that i am sad to see crytek go. But they did trash talk pc gamers and failed to improve crysis. I think having rise on the playstation and pc would have helped them. Also, not expanding like crazy without games to back you up is silly.
I agree. They failed to understand and capitalize on what people liked about Crysis. At this point Far Cry is more like what Crysis should be like by now imo.
That, & also, they decided to turn Crysis into a generic shooter in order to maximize sales, rather than follow up on what made Crysis/Warhead so memorable.
Though tbh I personally always hated the Aliens bit…. Give me a game about Hunting (read: Stalking) down CELL/Koreans/whatever all night long in a Nanosuit, & I’ll throw my money at you. Predator Bow ftw! <3 😉
Crytek won’t shut down entirely. They’ll either scale back their operation (which will mean serious layoffs, but at least Frankfurt will re-focus on what’s important, rather than their absurd F2P fantasies), or they’ll file Bankruptcy, in which case Crytek will be bought out by some Mid-Tier Publisher, & their operation will get scaled back.
CryEngine won’t be going anywhere, it’s a high-value object, even if Crytek is sold, the new owner will see the value in it. If anything, they might actually get Crytek to focus on it more, iron out the kinks & deal with its issues.
I think this is crytek uk not crytek who made crysis.
Crytek Frankfurt is the original Studio, Crytek UK was originally Free Radical, the guys behind Timesplitters, & the second iteration of SWBF3, before it was cancelled & they went bankrupt, only to be bought out by Crytek & renamed to “Crytek UK.”
Crytek Frankfurt designed CryEngine, Far Cry, & Crysis, Crytek Budapest did Warhead, Crytek Frankfurt did Crysis 2’s SP, Crytek UK did Crysis 2’s CoD-Clone MP, & Crytek Frankfurt handled Crysis 3.
Heh, SWBF3 Fan, followed Free Radical back when it was rumoured they were making it 😉 Pity too, they had some awesome Ground-to-Space Tech they showcased in an Internal Demo once, real nice stuff.
Crytek Frankfurt also did Ryse I think, with eventual collaboration from some other Studios which wasn’t originally planned.
so thats why homefront looks god its not made by cryrek who made crysis.
Yeah i mean its like things got harder to make, developers cant achieve the same quality of what they could many years ago, instead the game has to be half as big,propably graphics? Its like developers are lowering they standards, when i saw hl2, i thought games will progess into open world with physics, as it turns out the fps genere turned into a corridor shooter, wtf, seriously wtf?
What happened? Call of Duty did :I Market got bogged down in Clones since they were easier & cheaper to make, rather than be original, & eventually FPSs all became that, since Publishers wanted to sell more. Case in point, Crysis.
yup
crytek should accept what Microsoft want and save his company give ryse to microsoft and done
in future they can make better franchise than ryse
Do you think Microsoft wants the “Ryse” name? The game was a flop. Its sales figures are inflated by bundle deals and the fact that there was nothing good out at launch.
Microsoft was in talk with crytek for ryse
who cares about ryse? no seriously, who?
No one but crytek could and should give them this franchise cause at this point its do or die and crytek in future will make better more innovative franchise
Crytek is good company but they nees to know they’re straight and weakness
I was shocked this game was happened at all to begin with. The original wasn’t exactly a hit.
Actually after a while it ended up selling rather well, it just didn’t take off right from the start, so THQ ended up greenlighting the sequel only after the original Developer Studio was shut down. I believe Crytek got the deal because they offered to fund it themselves, which would have saved THQ Millions at a critical moment on Development Costs.
As for why Crytek was even interested in it in the first place…. I have no idea.
While maybe not a hit to some people because the singleplayer was lacklustre but the multiplayer scene was popular. I knew a lot of crew and clans who played Frontlines Fuel of War moved over to Homefront since the multiplayer was essentially the next iteration from Kaos Studios. I mean really they should have just named it Frontlines Fuel of War 2 instead of Homefront.
well they bought the rigts for 500.000 so in game developer’s world they got a ip liscense which APPARENTLY is better than actually making a new ip that is actually interesting to play.
Whats gonna happen to cryengine if all goes to sh*t?