(PR) Like so many of our peers, we aren’t immune to the complex, unfavorable market dynamics that have hit our industry these past several years. It pains us greatly to share today that we must lay off an estimated 15% of our around 400 employees. The layoffs affect development teams and shared services. This has not been an easy decision to make, as we deeply appreciate the hard work of our talented teams. After putting the development of the next Crysis game on hold in 03 2024, we have been trying to shift developers over to Hunt: Showdown 1896.
While Hunt: Showdown 1896 is still growing, Crytek cannot continue as before and remain financially sustainable. Even after ongoing efforts to reduce costs and cut operating expenses, we have determined that layoffs are inevitable to move forward. Crytek will offer affected employees severance packages and career assistance services.
We firmly believe in the future of Crytek. With Hunt: Showdown 1896, we have a very strong gaming service and remain fully committed to its operation. We will continue to expand and evolve Hunt: Showdown 1896 with great content and drive our strategy for our engine CRYENGINE.
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Join Discussion →I.E. they've completely embraced a live service game business model and until they can make Crysis be that it's on hold. There were already some leaks/rumors over the last 12-months regarding this including at some point an early leaked version of an MMO version of Crysis. I've been checking up on this since I'm a big fan of three main games and Warhead and came across info about the MMO stuff last month but it wasn't new.
A Crysis MMO... I dunno... the big schtick for Crysis are suites with mode switching for situations. Now instead of mode switching it's specialized suites/training to get the most out of it, but thanks to that they can be better than the old multimode suites?
Crysis took the special out of the 'character' and put it in the gear. That's a hard sell for an MMO unless it will work like jobs in FFXIV.
By the way, Crysis 1 and Warhead are $5 each on GOG again:
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That's what I paid for my own GOG copies years ago.
Also one of the only places I know of to get the 64-bit version of the first game. I know I've got Warhead but not sure if its from them. I'll have to doublecheck and if not I'll snag this.