Crytek Implements Crycash Payment Options Into Some of its Games

[aldo5]

well cryptos will see a downfall - because it is unusable as instant payment (popular and used ones)... you have to pay steep comissions if you want your payment be first on the blockchain... but if you will wait for hours to process your payment - then calculate in that you can and will get a +/- 5% value volatility - and no serious company can and will take this kind of volatility (risk) on their books.

 

[deu]

Just so people get it right: Star Citizen have used the CryEngine; they have then fully transitioned to Amazons Lumberyard. Cloud Imperium have no interest in crytek/cryengine; Alot of the programmers have left from crytek to and gotten hired by cloud imperium due to way better conditions and... actually being paid. (something crytek was not good at.) In other words; I dont understand why people think that crytek and star citizen have something together anymore when cloud imperium have done everything it can to get away. When converted to lumberyard more than 50% of their gameengine was written by the team themselves. cryengine was inadequate to remotely handle anything the size of the persistent universe they are trying to create. The thing is that there is no engine that can (except maybe the one that they are actually shaping their engine to be. I would recommend anyone interested in engines to take a look at how they are handling their objects cross servers and how they make streaming in the world possible; this have been done before, but not in the way they are doing it right now.

OT: i dont know if I think it is good to ad the link between cryptocurrency and gaming as they suggest. Valve pulled their BTC option to this solve reason: a too unstable marked resulting in instability in prices. But sure lets have the 12 year old kid have to get into buying currency at the market for him to be able to game his favorite game... (not that that would ever be a crytek game.)

 

[Vayra86]

Wow, this idea is so sad its making me CRY.

 

[KevinCobley]

There is going to be no Crysis 4, Crytek sold the franchise to EA.
Not content with a bizarre attempt to nick money from backers of a crowd-funded game Star Citizen, not yet even released. They not only want a sack of cash which they claimed as their "share" of funds raised by being the game engine developer, they also want an order preventing the release of the game, which is what the backers contributed for.
No wonder their unpaid staff exited and joined Star Citizen's team or Lumberyard's team.
Now it's a cryptocurrency scam from crying-for-cash.
The sooner this crew were terminated the better.

 

[Vya Domus]

Rest in peace Crytek.

They went from triple A game producers and leaders in developing graphics technologies and powerful engines to a low tier game studio based on quick cash grabs and micro transactions.

I have watched their evolution as time passed by and I came to the conclusion that Cevat cares exclusively about cash and nothing more. I don't blame him but that's not how you run a business , especially after you had a good start.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

While I think you're being a bit harsh, I share the sentiment implied, being that this is idiotic and deserves to fail.

Doesnt seem very harsh to me. The owners of crytek were pulling in a small profit, paying themselves hundreds of thousands annually while moving their properties to another shell company and not paying their employees.

They are scummy, shady people, and deserve to go out of business.

 

[PLAfiller]

Right? Crytocurrencies are not inherently bad.

I think they actually are. It is the blockchain technology, they are based on, that is the future and that is phenomenal. Blockchain will replace the SWIFT system in banking and there isn't a big corporation that is serious about it's future that is not investing in blockchain right now. But the crypto-currencies themselves, it's just a game. It always was, IMO.

 

[xorbe]

Insert card to remove aliens' invulnerability!