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CryEngine is amazing technology and CryTek is a great company. I believe there must be merit to this. Star Citizen is also a very cool project and so I hope they work things out together. I want both companies to be very successful.

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The engine used to certainly be impressive. The company, though, had quite a bit of trouble paying their employees in the last year or two:

https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/10/13908156/crytek-employees...

They're more of a struggling company. But hey, at least they deliver a product.

This lawsuit won't help them a bit, though. They're struggling because they gained a persistent reputation among gamers that games built with their engine are beautiful but unplayable on any normal hardware. Whenever I hear "CryEngine" I think of the "But will it run Crysis?" joke.

Maybe they should have rebranded it, but in any case they seem to have done something wrong about their business in comparison to, say, Unity.

I don't think they're that great. The engine is great, certainly, but crytek as a game company not so much. They were at their best when Crysis 1 was made, where you could have your own servers and mod things and communities were built. But the second they could get into the Call of Duty userbase, they actually deleted all their mod forums, which included hundreds of thousands of posts and thousands of mods and configs for servers. All to 'make room' for Crysis 2 'modding', which was non-existant because you could not own your own servers, and server sizes were tiny.

I would not describe CryTek as a great company; they've skipped out paying their employees numerous times.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/crytek-wage-crisis-black-sea-studio

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