GameStar: Crytek in Financial Trouble

German site GameStar.de reports (in German) that German developer Crytek is in financial trouble, and may be facing bankruptcy. Most of the story is behind a paywall, though we can see they say that the company secured additional funding in April, but there are questions about how long they will remain viable. DSOGaming summarizes more from the story in English, saying the recently released new version of CryENGINE is not selling well, that development of Ryse was catastrophic, and that there have been delays in making payroll for the 800 employee company.
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Crytek was NEVER a consumer friendly company. All of their games to date were tech demo's trying to sell their engine to other companies.

In addition to the above, Crytek has OUTRIGHT LIED to customers. When Crysis was released they maintained that the end user MUST have DX10 to experience "Time of Day" and other physics bells and whistles. Our mod team was given a dev kit access to create our mod and I was privy to conversations from other companies about DirectX and these options. The response from Crytek was that there was just one variable to set to true/false to enable these extras.

Crytek was lying to all customers about DX10 requirement since they were paid by Microsoft to push Vista on those who were still using Windows XP. I say let Crytek burn, reap what you sow.
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