Tries to be Epic, Valve and Facebook, all at once. Fails miserably.”
Anonymous Employee (Current Employee)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
I have been working at Crytek full-time for more than 8 years
Pros – Crytek used to be a nice place to work at, long, long time ago. Things were not perfect, but Far Cry & Crysis were great games made by great people. It was a time when taking risks and being bold were possible, a time when people were proud to work for Crytek.
Cons – The 3 Turkish owners seem to have abandoned the ship long time ago. No one really knows where the company's heading. Are they too busy driving their Ferraris? Or just overwhelmed and embarrassed by the monster they created? Where are they hiding?
The CEO seems to ignore what games are being developed in his studios or he's just being a very sloppy (self-proclaimed) creative director. Oh yeah, Crytek has a dozen of studios across the world (most of them in third world countries): that's the so-called "world domination"... There are like 1 billion projects developped at the same time. Focus level: 0%. Cancellation rate: 99%.
In Frankfurt, every single creative idea will be systematically ignored. Original projects pitched by capable people are regularly cancelled and teams are randomly shuffled. Instead, the company will now only work on generic f2p copies of existing games. Warface is the pinnacle of this new risk-averse strategy. Creativity level: 0%.
After the Ryse disaster, you might expect the company would rethink it's entire creative process, build a proper structure for reviewing projects and let people work on a project they could be proud of... You fool! You might at least expect better communication from upper management... Nope!
Results: the company is inexorably bleeding talents and cannot recruit senior staff. The Crytek I used to know is nearly dead, replaced by some giant soulless f2p factory.
Advice to Senior Management – Restart the whole thing? Sell? Fire half the staff and keep the members who can actually make a great game? Ask your employees how to improve the company?
Does it even matter anymore?
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
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