Nothing Crytek has fits that bill. Nobody is beating down the door for Crysis 4, really.
Crytek may go bankrupt
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Nothing Crytek has fits that bill. Nobody is beating down the door for Crysis 4, really.
Yeah? So anyone who's ever released an xbone game is thus a good fit for MS to purchase? That's not logical.
All the other reasons you mention can be summed up into "I like crysis and my console, so I think MS should buy crytek", basically.
MS does not have a good history of utilizing 3rd party studios well, I see no reason that repeating history with crytek would be any different. Also, MS has talent and engines and franchises and people already. More of the same wouldn't necessarily be very helpful, especially as MS has a sci-fi shooter franchise already, IE, halo. That'd be money invested competing for the same customers.
It'd be activision buying battlefield off of EA, if you will.
Surely they would be better suited buying a studio that produces games that actually sell well, rather than ones that merely look good and have awful stories, horrendous game play or both.
With their massive overheads, poor up take of their engine, and limited output how are they even a viable option for a bail out.
You'd cut away the recent dead-weight acquisitions and keep the core that survived for 10 years (assuming the financials show they survived off their own profits and not constant investment).
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But those are the games that sell well.
Regardless, take away the F2P ventures which translated into a ballooning of HR costs and I bet they'd be doing a sustainable business selling CryEngine and Crysis.
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MS should buy Crytek and force them to do a Kinect Ryse.
C3 would have sold better (together with the latest syndicate) had EA not been dumbfuck stupid and locked online sales of the game(s) to origin only.
hm... well, console sales seemed to be the greatest for C2, so I'm not sure being Origin-exclusive was the issue for the sequel.
Surely if the game were compelling enough, the digital store shouldn't matter and it would have sold to the mass market. *shrug*
edit: I mean, it bombed on console too, so...
That's why I never bought it, I just stick with Steam as I prefer one place for everything and Steam offers me more than enough gaming to last two lifetimes. Same reason I never bought Mass Effect 3, if it's not on Steam then it doesn't exist to me.
Crysis 2 was very popular as shown in this link:
http://hothardware.com/News/Crysis-2-Tops-List-of-Most-Pirated-Games-of-2011
...just in the wrong way, so it's questionable if that game made them any profit at all or just broke even. Crysis 3 was just out of place on the older consoles, shipping that late on last gen means it would be impossible to visually wow anyone which takes a lot of the bite out of it. I don't know if it was a good game or not as I never played it, but presumably it played similar to Crysis 2 which was the most popular game among thieves in 2011.
Perhaps, though it seems in general the game just bombed. They wouldn't have been able to make up for the loss of console sales, so either way (digital store exclusivity or not) they'd still be in trouble.
Same here TBH. Not that I think steam's so uber super awesome, but rather they were first to do what they do and I ended up buying all my stuff there. I don't see why I should keep multiple accounts at various vendors and have multiple clients running. It's entirely EA's fault (and loss) for not selling their games where I'm shopping.
They need to stop being stupid; I would very much LIKE to buy C3 and the new syndicate, but I can't. Origin I'll never get onboard with, for reasons mentioned, and frankly because I don't trust EA any farther than I can throw it. I still remember the time when origin rooted through your entire harddrive(s) and reported back home to base with the contents. Have they actually ever stopped doing that by the way? I don't think I ever read an official confirmation from EA about it...
Kotaku reports that game director of Homefront 2 has resigned.
http://kotaku.com/sources-crytek-still-facing-issues-as-homefront-direct-1603582673
http://kotaku.com/sources-crytek-still-facing-issues-as-homefront-direct-1603582673
Is it really resigning when the company isn't paying you?
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