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 quote:Eurogamer was contacted by a current employee of Crytek's main office in Frankfurt, who said staff there had not been paid for two months, and pay over the previous five months had been delayed by up to four weeks. quote:The source accused Crytek's embattled founders, brothers Cevat and Avni Yerli of failing to communicate properly with the company's increasingly angry workforce. quote:The source said the current belief is that Crytek has simply run out of cash, and while management are working on new deals, a rescue plan is taking longer than expected. quote:One source told Eurogamer staff aren't even sure if Cevat's still with the company, as he hasn't been seen in employee update meetings for months. His brother, Avni, has been the primary point of contact. quote:Crytek PR people have so far failed to respond to Eurogamer's request for comment. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-13-crytek-once-again-in-crisis Seems like they are going down on the quick!
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Who would have thought something to do with video games is handled irresponsibly by manchildren.
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A whole company of people who are willing to work for free for months and the best scam they could come up with was "we're making a video game"?
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Dec 13, 2016 17:04
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nobody cares because the talent left in 2014, http://www.pcgamer.com/cryteks-principal-rd-graphics-engineer-departs-for-id-software/ (and he is one of the people that made Doom 2016 really awesome, so it all worked out in the end) I'm surprised anyone still works at Crytek at all, it sounds like they've been in the same situation since 2013
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Dec 13, 2016 17:09
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Crikey
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Dec 13, 2016 17:20
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satanic splash-back posted:A whole company of people who are willing to work for free for months and the best scam they could come up with was "we're making a video game"? I've let a pay period slide a couple times in the past, but once you miss two payrolls in a row I don't work for you anymore. Goddamn the games industry fleeces its employees.
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Dec 13, 2016 17:29
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r u ready to WALK posted:I'm surprised anyone still works at Crytek at all, it sounds like they've been in the same situation since 2013
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Dec 13, 2016 17:37
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For a minute I started worrying about Cyberpunk 2077 but then I remembered thats CD Projekt Red. Crytek dead. so what
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begun, the tek wars have
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wait gently caress these guys make the Farcry series? holy poo poo this is bad that is like the best game series ever gently caress gently caress gently caress we need Farcry 
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Nooner posted:wait gently caress these guys make the Farcry series? holy poo poo this is bad that is like the best game series ever gently caress gently caress gently caress we need Farcry They only made the first one and crysis. Nothing to see here folks
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Dec 13, 2016 17:46
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lol, Star Citizen uses an engine that'll likely end up not having official development support anymore
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Fabricated posted:lol, Star Citizen uses an engine that'll likely end up not having official development support anymore Should have went with Unreal or Unity, Chris.
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Fabricated posted:lol, Star Citizen uses an engine that'll likely end up not having official development support anymore They poached a lot of their engine developers right? Though I'm not sure how many of the good ones went over.
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this is when you start taking things if you delay then an auditor will come by and you wont be able to take it anymore like an escape from a sinking ship, you have to grab and go, not think.
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Dec 13, 2016 18:05
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CryTek has always had problems. Just before FarCry came out they were raided for using pirated software.
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well they gave us far cry 1 and cyrsis 1 before the incompetents at the top ruined the company and its games. thanks for that, at least. for a time they had the most talented 3d engine developers on the planet.
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Fabricated posted:lol, Star Citizen uses an engine that'll likely end up not having official development support anymore It's a scam game engine for a scam game, it's a perfect fit!
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TheAsterite posted:They only made the first one and crysis. Nothing to see here folks oh, well gently caress it nm then lol
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Dec 13, 2016 20:25
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revmoo posted:I've let a pay period slide a couple times in the past, but once you miss two payrolls in a row I don't work for you anymore. Goddamn the games industry fleeces its employees. The first time someone misses payroll, you continue to come into the office and search for other jobs. Your job is to work, theirs is to pay. If they don't pay, you don't work. I will never understand how people can accept a company not keeping up their side of the contract.
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Enderzero posted:The first time someone misses payroll, you continue to come into the office and search for other jobs. Your job is to work, theirs is to pay. If they don't pay, you don't work. I will never understand how people can accept a company not keeping up their side of the contract. edit: that doesn't excuse this case though, crytek has been dead/dying since they released crysis 2, and that was a long time ago. Prettz fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Son of Rodney posted:Crikey
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kuddles posted:Yeah, after basically being broke the first time two years ago, you think everyone would have taken off after the CEO both denied that they desperately needed the money despite selling assets left and right and also suggested his workers were impatient whiners for not getting paid for weeks. gently caress I forgot about that article  quote:...it's surprising at times how he brushes off concerns that Crytek was in trouble. Employees weren't being paid on time because of a "diminished capital resource" caused by the shift to free-to-play, he said, not because of any underlying structural problems with the company; he also claimed shock that "some people were very impatient and got angry at the smallest delay" in their paychecks. "These rear end in a top hat employees of mine keep getting emotional when I don't pay them, wtf?!"
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Prettz posted:if they believed in the company and what it does and wanted to see it succeeded? I think it all depends on whether or not you are employed "at will", aka "at our mercy"
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Enderzero posted:The first time someone misses payroll, you continue to come into the office and search for other jobs. Your job is to work, theirs is to pay. If they don't pay, you don't work. I will never understand how people can accept a company not keeping up their side of the contract. In my case the company's excuses where that someone just hosed up paperwork. Now I don't buy that poo poo for a second, but I'm also not going to call their bluff on something like that until I know for sure it's time to exit.
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is it AMD compatible?
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What was the last thing they made? The first Star Citizen trailer and that god awful Roman Gears of War for the Bone? They hosed.
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Prettz posted:if they believed in the company and what it does and wanted to see it succeeded? If you believe in a company you have far bigger issues to deal with. Companies push the concept of loyalty and family solely because it benefits them - when it no longer makes financial sense to employ you, you're gone. Your first job is to look out for yourself. If you break your employment contract, they will fire you. If they break the employment contract, uhhhh just keep working and hope for the best? Nearly every company that misses payroll (for reasons other than something went wrong with the process, it'll just be delayed a few days) is going to go under. You have to accept that fact and find a new job but most importantly stop working. That's straight up wage theft.
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revmoo posted:In my case the company's excuses where that someone just hosed up paperwork. Now I don't buy that poo poo for a second, but I'm also not going to call their bluff on something like that until I know for sure it's time to exit. Unless they have a plan to get the money to you before the next payday, it's time to exit. Don't ignore this red flag or you'll regret it because you won't get those wages back if they go under - any money left is going to creditors first.
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Pfft. Canada has over 80,000 government employees with pay problems, including some that haven't been paid in almost a year. Not paying employees is just a new way that businesses are saving money.
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r u ready to WALK posted:nobody cares because the talent left in 2014, http://www.pcgamer.com/cryteks-principal-rd-graphics-engineer-departs-for-id-software/ Do4m sucks though...
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The video games industry. Long hours, low relative pay, no job security, absurd conditions but hey at least the boss will never expect you to ~adult~ I mean hell care probably gets it worse but at least they're helping people
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Prettz posted:if they believed in the company and what it does and wanted to see it succeeded? Believe in one hand and poo poo in the other. See which hand gets filled first.
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Oscar Wild posted:Believe in one hand and poo poo in the other. See which hand gets filled first. gross now I'm imagining a big turd in my hand gently caress you
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Enderzero posted:The first time someone misses payroll, you continue to come into the office and search for other jobs. Your job is to work, theirs is to pay. If they don't pay, you don't work. I will never understand how people can accept a company not keeping up their side of the contract. ^^ This. I learned the hard way - small games startup, everything was great for 9-10 months, then payroll was two weeks late, then three weeks, then longer month after month as the owner conned various people into "investing" in the company. Massive torrents of bullshit from the owner, kept stringing people along as long as he could. "Come on guys, get the game finished and we'll be fine, we're all in this together" etc. I was in the lucky position of having poo poo tons of cash in the bank (just sold a house), so was OK, but others I worked with weren't. It loving sucked seeing people crying in the office because they couldn't pay their rent, then seeing the shitlord owner drive off home in his £60k car. Or more often, just not even face the music in the office, and leave it to some other poor bastard to pass on the news. My rule now is: No pay, no work.
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sounds like working in the games industry was a far cry from what they were expecting, op.
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10 years later and not even Crytek can run Crysis.
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