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Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 05:30 PM
So, they took all that to say "it's all true, we found more investors however, and we swear were goign to pay our people. Please stop saying mean things about us.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 05:30 PM
Smell that? Smells like bullshit.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 05:52 PM
Come on MS, buy up Crytek and Capcom and you have a chance to take this generation.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 05:57 PM
@2: What I smell is someone overusing that phrase. Seriously.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 06:05 PM
well ... it means no Ryse 2? :(Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 06:22 PM
With Crisis' story lack luster and for all intensive purposes Ryse was a flop. I was pulling for Crytek throughout the Crisis series, but now I would actually love to see them fail as a company. This whole pay to win and pay to play with microtransactions shit is really pissing me off. So F u Kim Kardashian Hollywood, You go to hell and you die.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 06:30 PM
@5 but what if #2 was Karl? He would then simply be performing his heroic duty.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 06:59 PM
That bullshit corporate response they released at the top of the page just ensures that I'll never give them my money in the future. It's simply insulting to be honest and even more so to their employees. I guess bleeding out is a transitional phase, if you're asshole enough to word it that way. And not paying your employees for months? Get fucked Crytek, you deserve to go out of business.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 07:14 PM
@#5: Smell that? It smells like someone needs to get a life.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 07:33 PM
@10 This coming from the guy who keeps posting "smfh" on slender the arrival achievements being added on this site STFUFriday, July 25, 2014 @ 07:35 PM
@3 your clearly somebody who doesn't understand what ftp is. Where have you been for the last 5 years. IdiotFriday, July 25, 2014 @ 07:46 PM
Whenever I hear about a game being free 2 play I just turn and run in the other direction. Because what I really hear is free 2 price gouge.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 07:57 PM
Free 2 Play? So that's gonna mean games you can play on Facebook? I'm not a fan of these types of games, as they never impress me. But I won't say I'll avoid it, but will deserve judgement until I see more of these games.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 08:19 PM
@7 Microsoft wants to buy the IP and make it. Crytek doesn't want to sell Agreed MS should just buy them, and while Capcom might be smart, I'm not entirely sure that they'd go for itFriday, July 25, 2014 @ 08:27 PM
Yeah they are transitioning from making money on AAA retail titles to losing money on F2P bullshit...no worries.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 08:41 PM
Damn I used to look forward to anything with Crytek's name attached to it and now they are just another lame ass company.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 08:44 PM
RIP Crysis in advance...really liked to see a Crysis in next gen...rather earlyFriday, July 25, 2014 @ 10:08 PM
-Shakes head and sighs- Failing to pay your employees isn't a 'transitional phase' and it never will be. Crytek, go and rot in your grave, you haven't had gamers best interests for years, you've had the opposite of that in fact, it's not good to see people loose their jobs, but its better to not work, then to work for nothing in this case.Friday, July 25, 2014 @ 11:21 PM
@4: Microsoft needs to not buy any 3rd party, they showed up what they're capable of by running one of the best developers straight into the ground. Yes I'm talking about Rare. RIP...Saturday, July 26, 2014 @ 01:50 AM
Ryse 2 pleasesSaturday, July 26, 2014 @ 05:42 PM
Transitional phase is business speak for going from having money, to not having money.Monday, July 28, 2014 @ 03:42 AM
I don't see how a developer like them can switch to the p2p model when they are so good at making games and engines.Monday, July 28, 2014 @ 07:21 AM
I'll be honest I won't miss Ryse 2Monday, July 28, 2014 @ 11:10 AM
I didn't realise Hunt was Free to Play crap. They really are fucked then if they're carrying on down the Free to Play route. Sucks to be them, but entirely their own fault.Monday, July 28, 2014 @ 12:13 PM
Unless I missed something while they said the employees got information on the matter, have they actually bothered to pay them yet. That's the bigger issues in my eyes, sod the transitional phase, if you you don't pay your employees you won't have any better long. People have bills to pay, no one is going to wait around for long when they can't afford to live.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Crytek has today addressed its financial situation following reports that the company had failed to pay employee wages at some of its studios for months. Crytek has since moved to dismiss these reports as rumours, claiming that the company "has been in a transitional phase" in a note issued to GamesIndustry.biz.
According to the Crytek representative issuing the statement, the firm has been using its period of transition to secure more capital as it moves from a status as developer to online publisher. Apparently, that capital has now been generated and Crytek is prepared for the long term, declaring that "we won't be communicating further details about our developments and progress."
Here's Crytek's statement in full:
The status of a Ryse sequel for Xbox One remains unknown, however, with Crytek's next games being free-to-play titles Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age (preview here) and Arena of Fate.