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Crytek Announces Staff Layoffs, Crysis 4 Development Was Put on Hold in 2024

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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 Q3 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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Tl:dr Just like all the other poorly run dev houses we over-hired during COVID and it turns out that the growth that we (for no reason) assumed would be permanent and endless turned out to be anything but and now we are leaking money like a sieve.
 
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Well Crytek is in a weird situation since years tbh. The last good game is a long time ago and yeah I know about the money grab Hunt........It is sad that they stopped C4s development.
 
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another software company that just decided to milk a multiplayer game instead of working on new IP's like they used to. Can't be even a bit sorry for them.
 
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another software company that just decided to milk a multiplayer game instead of working on new IP's like they used to. Can't be even a bit sorry for them.
Agreed, the last great game they made was Crysis Warhead, which was a expansion of the original Crysis which was a reformulation of Far Cry 1. That is a thin lineup of games over 21 years.

Yes, I excluded Crysis 2 and 3, those games were not as fun as the ones mentioned above for several reasons.
 
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