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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.

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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.

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