Crytek are going to announce a huge license deal. Maybe it will reinstate the studio.

[Laa-Yosh]

Oh and don't think for a single moment that Crytek spends "an average of $100k for a year" to their developers. Crytek Germany probably pays less than half of that on average. For their offices in Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary and Ukraine, counting with pre-graduates and subsidized internships, they're probably spending close to $10k per developer a year.

Crytek Budapest should be kinda small by now, focusing on mobile... Most of the people I've known there have left - one is working at our studio, one is a lead designer on Witcher 3, one is freelancing and has worked on movies and GOT, one has left the business apparently, and another got hired at id to work on Doom 4

Although, they apparently did spend a lot of money while they were stuffing up on Ryse, high-end equipment and office space, probably good salaries as well. After all they've made Crysis: Warhead which was a reasonably successful release.

 

[L. Scofield]

Although Warhead was made mostly of recycled assets from Crysis 1.