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[Satan n stuff]

9erRed, on 31 July 2014 - 10:27 AM, said:

Greetings all,

With reference to CryTek and 'Possibly' loosing some support for MWO.

From another thread, the US office was closed, but not before most if not all the employees either quite or just didn't show up for any further work. That's places quite a few, 30 to 50 engineers of various talents on the market. Most have been 'snapped up' by other developers but this still needs to be looked into by PGI. Having actual CryTek system developers working for PGI only speeds up anything related to engine work.

PGI has mentioned before that the time frame between there problem questions and reply's from CryTek could take month's in some case's. And by the time the issue is addressed they have changed/altered the MWO engine or found there(PGI) own solution.

Similar issues were happening at RSI/Star Citizen until they outright hired a CryTek 'evangelist' engineer. What used to take days or longer to 'get into the engine' this 'evangelist' could have in and working in hours or less. PGI take note, the costs and engine knowledge for the engineer outweigh any lengthy timeframes delaying all the other MWO system developers.

9erRed

There's doubtlessly a lot of developers that will try to hire one or more Crytek engineers, hiring one might get very expensive.

[Sandpit]

Satan n stuff, on 31 July 2014 - 10:38 AM, said:

There's doubtlessly a lot of developers that will try to hire one or more Crytek engineers, hiring one might get very expensive.

no doubt but PGI has to accept that their development cycle and progress needs a serious jumpstart. That one employee could probably take the load off an entire team freeing up other resources.

[Satan n stuff]

Sandpit, on 31 July 2014 - 10:44 AM, said:

no doubt but PGI has to accept that their development cycle and progress needs a serious jumpstart. That one employee could probably take the load off an entire team freeing up other resources.

True, but since when has PGI prioritized actual development over adding stuff for us to buy? You could probably hire a bunch of half decent artists for the price of one specialist programmer, especially if you have to compete with other developers' offers to hire that programmer.

[Sandpit]

Satan n stuff, on 31 July 2014 - 10:52 AM, said:

True, but since when has PGI prioritized actual development over adding stuff for us to buy? You could probably hire a bunch of half decent artists for the price of one specialist programmer, especially if you have to compete with other developers' offers to hire that programmer.

just depends on how cynical you want to be

[Mavairo]

Satan n stuff, on 31 July 2014 - 10:38 AM, said:

There's doubtlessly a lot of developers that will try to hire one or more Crytek engineers, hiring one might get very expensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine

nothing AAA.

Honestly who would want to use CryEngine willingly?

[Vassago Rain]

Mavairo, on 31 July 2014 - 11:08 AM, said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine

nothing AAA.

Honestly who would want to use CryEngine willingly?

A lot of asians and companies who want to get away from the plastic look of unreal. For instance, they're making a golf game in cryengine.

And a Sonic game.

[Sandpit]

Mavairo, on 31 July 2014 - 11:08 AM, said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine

nothing AAA.

Honestly who would want to use CryEngine willingly?

you wouldn't consider
far cry series
star citizen
ryse
kingdom come
homefront
armored warfare
sniper ghost warrior 2
Sonic
Crysis series

AAA titles...?

[Vassago Rain]

Sandpit, on 31 July 2014 - 11:13 AM, said:

you wouldn't consider
far cry series
star citizen
ryse
kingdom come
homefront
armored warfare
sniper ghost warrior 2
Sonic
Crysis series

AAA titles...?

People don't actually read these days, Sandpit.

Also, there's about a billion other games that aren't on that list.

[Sandpit]

Vassago Rain, on 31 July 2014 - 11:18 AM, said:

People don't actually read these days, Sandpit.

Also, there's about a billion other games that aren't on that list.

trust me I know

[Deathlike]

All I can say is that the "CryEngine upgrade" that's necessary for the Lolcust to go about 170kph or just the (indefinite) debut of the Flea is almost unlikely/never going to happen.

[Mavairo]

Sandpit, on 31 July 2014 - 11:13 AM, said:

you wouldn't consider
far cry series
star citizen
ryse
kingdom come
homefront
armored warfare
sniper ghost warrior 2
Sonic
Crysis series

AAA titles...?

Star Citizen? You mean the great vaporware?

Far Cry... yea...no.
Kingdom come what?
Ryse? Who?
Homefront... you mean that game that was about north korea taking over the US...that tanked?
Armored Warfare..nope
Sniper ghost... there was a first one?
Sonic... now you're just kidding right?
Crysis.. this one might be the only one of the batch that is AA.

Don't confuse games that have higher production quality than MWO with being AAA. Plenty of Indie games can boast and surpass there.

Edited by Mavairo, 31 July 2014 - 06:16 PM.

[Sandpit]

Mavairo, on 31 July 2014 - 06:15 PM, said:

Star Citizen? You mean the great vaporware?

Far Cry... yea...no.
Kingdom come what?
Ryse? Who?
Homefront... you mean that game that was about north korea taking over the US...that tanked?
Armored Warfare..nope
Sniper ghost... there was a first one?
Sonic... now you're just kidding right?
Crysis.. this one might be the only one of the batch that is AA.

Don't confuse games that have higher production quality than MWO with being AAA. Plenty of Indie games can boast and surpass there.

uhm ok
lol



on another note....


you guys ever notice how when there's like an entire thread of people pretty much saying "you're wrong" or not taking a certain point that the one standing solo mio always thinks everyone else is wrong? What was this thread about again anyhow?


Oh, yea, crythings going boom. I've got a few cry.... well..... ya know that would go boom

[Gyrok]

Let me clear the air on this.

Crytek is not going under, they are transitioning to a publishing company.

They have sold off some IP to reduce their overhead, they are still keeping staff in Austin, and they are still licensing CryEngine, as well as supporting it.

They just moved 1 development schedule to another studio, they are keeping the most relevant IP they have (i.e. Crysis and a few other games).

They have secured plenty of funds to continue progressing to a publishing group.

I know this because the game I develop is based on CryEngine...so I have been following it closely.

[Sandpit]

Gyrok, on 31 July 2014 - 08:05 PM, said:

Let me clear the air on this.

Crytek is not going under, they are transitioning to a publishing company.

They have sold off some IP to reduce their overhead, they are still keeping staff in Austin, and they are still licensing CryEngine, as well as supporting it.

They just moved 1 development schedule to another studio, they are keeping the most relevant IP they have (i.e. Crysis and a few other games).

They have secured plenty of funds to continue progressing to a publishing group.

I know this because the game I develop is based on CryEngine...so I have been following it closely.

nah, that's too sensible.

If I believed that then all the tinfoils around here wouldn't be able to have any fun in this thread

[Johnny Z]

Sandpit, on 31 July 2014 - 11:13 AM, said:

you wouldn't consider
far cry series
star citizen
ryse
kingdom come
homefront
armored warfare
sniper ghost warrior 2
Sonic
Crysis series

AAA titles...?

Thre are alot more titles than that, and some of the new sony 4 games are using it. As far as i can tell crytek makes the most popular of all the engines, and this whole thing might be a play to change their terms of use or what ever, to make more money. Could be wrong, but this is the way it looks to me. It doesnt make sense one of the most, if not the most popular engines would be having to much trouble.