Crytek's Crysis (Not The Game): Is It Bigger Than We Thought?

General news News 12/14/2016

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The Yerli brothers’ company is in some financial trouble.

Eurogamer was contacted by an anonymous employee at Crytek Frankfurt after new rumors popped up on Reddit last week. These rumors say that Crytek hasn’t paid its employees for six months!

The source claims that nobody has received a single euro cent in the last two months, and the five months before that, they encountered delays that took up to four weeks. Eurogamer confirmed this statement via another source.

Crytek ran out of cash, and while the management is working on new deals, the rescue plan’s execution takes longer than originally expected. Most workers blame Cevat Yerli for the situation, whose interview with Eurogamer in 2014 did not go down well in the company.

Crytek‘s switch to VR titles didn’t work out that well: while Robinson: The Journey looks decent, the full price for it doesn’t look reasonable for a title that feels more like a tech demo. The Climb, which has thrown off its Denuvo possibly to get refunded, is another well-regarded game with not a lot of purchases. Crytek‘s Bulgaria studio – known for its MOBAs, such as Arena of Fate, Black Sea – could be sold.

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