Crytek In Deep Trouble – Adoption of CryEngine Not Good, Ryse Development Catastrophic (Update: Crytek denies claim)

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curl-6 said:

Areym said:

curl-6 said:
Another studio killed by the toxic AAA business model.

Sounds like their games are just subpar to what a real, AAA title should be. They did themselves in.

AAA is a measure of budget, not necessarily quality.

But the toxic AAA business model is great games that fail to make profit because the budgets are far too high. So clearly Crytek isn't a victim of this because you have to make great games to start with. Going bankrupt because you make mediocre product with a AAA budget is what you expect in any industry.

But where they failed is in adoption of their game engine, and it seems because they set the price too high. So if anything they were guilty of trying to force game budgets up to unsustainable levels.