"the bulk" of Crytek UK's Staff No Longer Going To Work

StrongDeadlift · 2014-07-04 05:16:41

http://kotaku.com/sources-crytek-uks-staff-are-currently-on-leave-1599923133There's still trouble at Crytek, the independent game developer behind games like Crysis andRyse. And as of yesterday, the bulk of employees at Crytek's UK office are no longer going to work, according to people familiar with the situation.1This comes in the wake of numerous reports that Crytek, which has studios across the world,has had trouble paying staff on time. Though Crytek has publicly denied facing financial difficulties, I've heard from close to 20 current and former employees stating that, as we reported last week, paychecks have been late and a Ryse sequel was cancelled following a dispute with Microsoft over who would own the rights to the franchise.New developments point to more trouble ahead. Over the past two days, I've spoken with four people connected to Crytek's UK studio, which is currently developing Homefront: The Revolution. According to those people, Crytek's UK staff have still not been paid the full amounts they are owed, and this week, according to two sources, the staff at Crytek's UK office handed in formal grievance letters and went home.One person familiar with the studio estimates that around 100 people have left, though it's unclear how many people plan to leave permanently and how many would like to stay with Crytek UK, which has been consistently losing staff for the past few months.Rumor around the studio is that Crytek and Homefront publisher Deep Silver are currently negotiating over what will happen next. Employees at Crytek UK, which is based in Nottingham, are hoping that Deep Silver will purchase the studio and continue funding development of Homefront: The Revolution, according to two people connected to the company.'They have invested a lot in Homefront and will want to protect their investment,' said one source.For now, however, Crytek UK is in stasis as employees wait to see what will happen next.Representatives for Crytek and Deep Silver did not respond to requests for comment. That really sucks because Crytek UK is probably the most talented team of people they have there. Those are the original guys behind Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Timesplitters, and Homefront 2 looks awesome. One of my most anticipated games.Somebody needs to don a cape and swoop in like captain save-a-ho and rescue them.

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#51 AcidTango

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So I guess no Timesplitters 4 then :(

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#52 jg4xchamp

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>I'm not getting paid
>I'm not working

Makes sense.

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#53 Daious

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@AcidTango said:

So I guess no Timesplitters 4 then :(

We can only dream that they actually sell the IP to someone competent and confident enough to make the sequel.

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#55 ShepardCommandr

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if i said i cared i would be lying

Crytek has always made mediocre games.

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#56 lazerface216

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crytek makes shit games, them going down is good for the industry, especially if they can't even pay their employees.

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#57 Edited By deactivated-5cd08b1605da1

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Its a shame. Crysis 2 and 3 were pretty good. Crysis 1 is vastly overrated though. Now I'm gratefull they didnt bought the Darksiders IP

And why make an Homefront 2? The 1st one was shit and it didnt even sold that well. They're really shooting themselves in the foot with this one

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#58 Locutus_Picard

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@Jankarcop said:

I wish consoles would stop killing devs who were good once.

They shouldn't have gone to consoles in the first place. No one put a gun to their head to make games for 360/ps3.

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#59 Sollet

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@blackace said:

@Sollet said:

@blackace said:

@R4gn4r0k said:

@Sollet said:

Well that sucks.

I guess Crytek and Ryse might end up this gens Factor 5 and Lair. Ouch.

More like this gens free radical design with Haze

Ryse/Crisys >Haze >Lair

Lair was complete garbage and so was Haze.

Crytek should have cut staff a long time ago. They have way, way to many employees to pay for the few games they were making. Besides Homefront, what else were all these developers working on?

Yet both Lair and Haze scored better *snickers*

They did?

Haze: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/haze

Lair: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/lair

Ryse: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/ryse-son-of-rome

If you're talking about GS scores, we all know GS are the worse reviewers in the industry. Ryse is no where near a 4 score. The score on Metacritics is a more accurate score then anything on GS. They gave TLOU an 8. lol!!

You sure you wanna go that road where GS scores doesn't count?

Cause if you are then you admitting that for instance TLOU shits on the entire 360s library both score wise and award wise

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#60 Animal-Mother

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@Jankarcop said:

I wish consoles would stop killing devs who were good once.

Yup because the consoles forced crytek to make executive decisions, spend millions of dollars and man hours to develop games for them, right?

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#61 jsmoke03

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@blackace said:

@Sollet said:

@blackace said:

@R4gn4r0k said:

@Sollet said:

Well that sucks.

I guess Crytek and Ryse might end up this gens Factor 5 and Lair. Ouch.

More like this gens free radical design with Haze

Ryse/Crisys >Haze >Lair

Lair was complete garbage and so was Haze.

Crytek should have cut staff a long time ago. They have way, way to many employees to pay for the few games they were making. Besides Homefront, what else were all these developers working on?

Yet both Lair and Haze scored better *snickers*

They did?

Haze: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/haze

Lair: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/lair

Ryse: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/ryse-son-of-rome

If you're talking about GS scores, we all know GS are the worse reviewers in the industry. Ryse is no where near a 4 score. The score on Metacritics is a more accurate score then anything on GS. They gave TLOU an 8. lol!!

o rly??? so why are you on this website?

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