True. And those employees also made the Crysis games which were awful. 

No problem mate.

Found the article last night when I was messing around with a translation app on my phone, haha. I didn't look much into it though until this was brought to my attention.

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. 

From wikipedia (give it as much credibility as you want), they only worked on the multiplayer part of Crysis 2, so they had nothing to do with the main game being what it was, and then Crysis 3 without mentioning what they did.

Thankfully for devs, maybe because their lack of success of selling the engine, Crytek has put the engine on Steam at what looks like a good price and without having to pay them royalties once you start selling your game.

All this says is that graphics alone will not sell your games. Thats just their problem. Till this day their games are still used as a way to benchmark PCs. And I keep saying it, the PC market is very very strange. You will have ppl scream master race and 4k or 120fps but they don't really buy games. Most of them just claim they do. In truth they mostly just pirate games (its too easy). Unless a company has a subscription based online game or game that thrives on a lot of in game purchases that can't be hacked, it will not sell well on PC. Thats just the truth.

Stop making trash games like Crysis 3 and Ryse and give us TimeSplitters 4, Crytek! >:(

This is what happens when you rush a game; it ends up being very average, sells poorly, studio that made it gets a bad rep. Sony is very loose on it's deadlines because they would rather a good/finished product instead of an half-arsed game.

It was obvious they were in trouble when Homefront of all games outsold Crysis 2, the supposed best looking game ever made.

All Crytek was really at was developing games and making them look good. Gameplay was average at best. They're like a third party Guerilla Games.