Message from @Reaps

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2018-02-23 13:36:12 UTC  

i thought it was for other reason

2018-02-23 13:36:24 UTC  

Oof.

2018-02-23 13:37:58 UTC  

what i heard, they are suing them because they used the engine for another game that it wasn't in the agreement

2018-02-23 13:38:40 UTC  

On the surface, yeah.

2018-02-23 13:39:41 UTC  

Basically they were offering jobs to the Crytek employees to work on another game. Crytek employees didn't get paid in full or something for a while.

2018-02-23 13:40:09 UTC  

There was quite a bit going on behind the scenes.

2018-02-23 13:45:03 UTC  

where you saw that?

2018-02-23 13:48:45 UTC  

KiA

2018-02-23 13:49:27 UTC  

fuck it, I'll buy it, see how it goes

2018-02-23 13:49:39 UTC  

looks like something that works more with a partner or a squad

2018-02-23 13:49:48 UTC  

>Regardless of that crytek's whole misfortune began and was caused by their odd and sudden rapid expansion a few years ago.
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>They went from a studio that made Crysis and a pretty good engine to a company with development studios all over the world each working on their own games. God only knows where they got the idea or money for this growth but it was a giant mistake and it's kind of shocking that it didn't put them completely out of business within a couple of years.
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>From the outside it looks like Crytek wanted to become the next UbiSoft. The problem with that is UbiSoft was much bigger than Crytek when Ubi started it's large growth cycle. Essentially as soon as Ubi got that Tom Clancy license and they used it to make some pretty epic games back in the day they became set.
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>Crytek doesn't have anything like that. They can't fall back on a license if one of their games is bad. If one of their games is bad it just won't sell.
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>Such a weird Company who's upper management needs to be purged.

2018-02-23 13:49:57 UTC  

but we'll see. I usually wind up lone wolfing most fuckin' games which is entertaining and an extra challenge in of itself

2018-02-23 13:50:42 UTC  

Crytek sounds like it's fallen into the trap that most companies (and indeed nations) can fall into

2018-02-23 13:50:45 UTC  

expanding too quickly

2018-02-23 13:50:46 UTC  

>Apparently, when CIG decided to break away from CryEngine, that was a breach of Crytek's partnership with CIG.

2018-02-23 13:51:07 UTC  

Even the company that makes (*made) those red cups you see in every frat house party expanded too fast and busted itself

2018-02-23 13:51:43 UTC  

come to think of it

2018-02-23 13:51:48 UTC  

I think youtuber law has covered a lot of this too

2018-02-23 13:51:59 UTC  

yup, four fuckin' videos

2018-02-23 13:52:00 UTC  

lel

2018-02-23 13:52:40 UTC  

`You just tore apart their case without even seeing CIG's response or the GLA.

Bravo.

Can't wait to see your update to this!`

2018-02-23 13:52:41 UTC  

oof

2018-02-23 13:52:48 UTC  

It's confusing what exactly was going on, but the essence is, Crytek was going bankrupt, so they turned litigious.

2018-02-23 13:53:15 UTC  

welp, let's see if this Hunt game bails them out

2018-02-23 13:53:18 UTC  

never even heard of it

2018-02-23 13:53:21 UTC  

Star Citizen was its lifeline, apparently.

2018-02-23 13:53:26 UTC  

until I saw it pop up on my steam feed

2018-02-23 13:53:48 UTC  

I still download updates for Verdun, even though I still haven't played it

2018-02-23 13:53:49 UTC  

yay me

2018-02-23 13:54:00 UTC  

too many games, not enough time

2018-02-23 13:54:04 UTC  

tragedy.

2018-02-23 13:54:21 UTC  

I just started a Stellaris 2.0 playthrough.

2018-02-23 13:54:31 UTC  

mm

2018-02-23 13:54:33 UTC  

games like that interest me

2018-02-23 13:54:49 UTC  

but I also know how much time they sapped from me back in a time when I had more time to actually play games

2018-02-23 14:08:44 UTC  

13 gigs

2018-02-23 14:08:50 UTC  

welp, guess I'm not playing tonight