Crysis 4 Has Been Put 'on Hold' as Crytek Lays Off 15% of Its Staff - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 February 2025 / 2,792 Views
Crytek announced developing on Crysis 4 has been put "on hold" as it plans to lay off around 15 percent of its staff. This would be around 60 people as the studio has about 400 employees.
"Like so many of our peers, we aren't immune to the complex, unfavorable market dynamics that have hit our industry these past several years," reads the statement from Crytek. "It pains us greatly to share today that we must lay off an estimated 15% of our around 400 employees. The layoffs affect development teams and shared services. This has not been an easy decision to make, as we deeply appreciate the hard work of our talented teams. After putting the development of the next Crysis game on hold in Q3 2024, we have been trying to shift developers over to Hunt: Showdown 1896.
"While Hunt: Showdown 1896 is still growing, Crytek cannot continue as before and remain financially sustainable. Even after ongoing efforts to reduce costs and cut operating expenses, we have determined that layoffs are inevitable to move forward. Crytek will offer affected employees severance packages and career assistance services.
"We firmly believe in the future of Crytek. With Hunt: Showdown 1896, we have a very strong gaming service and remain fully committed to its operation. We will continue to expand and evolve Hunt: Showdown 1896 with great content and drive our strategy for our engine CRYENGINE."
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Supposedly, they are struggeling to keep afloat.... like if you google "I went through cryteks 2021 financial report" a reddit thread should show up, and whats in there seems pretty damning. It paints a pretty bleak picture.
I couldn't find any actual reports for 22,23,24 ect... so hopefully they got things going in a better direction.
They are not makeing much money off of their GaaS game (hunt showdown 1896), but choose to double down on it, and stop developement on Crysis, to try and make things better for Showdown 1896.... These GaaS games, can seriously damage studios.
This is sad. They should be the graphical competition to UE5. I don't understand how they let themselves go so much.
This is a huge shame. Epic IP, struggling company. Someone needs to buy Crytec and feed them funding.
I would like Nintendo to gobble them up.
CryEngine optimized for Switch 2.0? Nintendo lacks an open and large game engine platform like Sony and Microsoft for developers to latch onto and leverage.
Time for another live service/BR game...
Know what makes me sad?. Hunt Showdown's original concept was going to be a co-op shooter, but with the same details as what we got with HUNT, just without the extraction/PVP bs.
I know Crytek have to also manage their engine, but barely many use it today, barely many talk about it, and Crytek spread themselves too far over the yrs, and only managed to produce this one PVP based game over the years, and 2 remasters that were timed exclusive to a less popular storefront for a year, while driving ppl like me away for that entire year (I still choose not to buy, because I don't like rewarding that kind of practice EG tried to set on PC).
Honestly Crytek just feels horrible mismanaged.
