The German game developer Crytek loses another game and likely also a studio. They are letting go of the online shooter “Warface”. The previous Crytek team in Kiev is going independent and will continue to work on the F2P shooter.
This is the announcement: There is another restructuring at Crytek. The developers of Warface are leaving the company and taking their game with them.
So far, Warface has been developed at Crytek Kiev, one of the last three bastions of Crytek alongside the headquarters in Frankfurt and a studio in Istanbul.
Crytek announces that Warface is now being developed by “Blackwood Games”. This is a new company under the creative director of Warface, Michael Khaimzon, and the previous development team from Crytek Kiev.
It is said that Blackwood will take over the further development of the Warface franchise, along with all future updates. This is an important strategic change.
This is Warface: It is a free-to-play first-person shooter in a military style. Warface was released in 2013 for PC, but only came out in 2018 for PS4 and Xbox One.
On Metacritic, the PC version of Warface received 62%. The game was described as “solid standard fare.” The title is okay, but it lacks inspiration and original ideas.
We at MeinMMO have taken a look at Warface in a review.
This is the situation of Crytek: Between 2007 and 2013, Crytek was on an expansion course. The developer opened branches around the world, acquired studios, and invested.
But for some years now, Crytek has been shrinking again, just as quickly as it had previously grown.
- In 2014, Crytek closed its branches in the UK and the USA.
- In 2016, it parted ways with 4 studios in Budapest, Sofia, Seoul, and Shanghai. At that time, the company announced that it would focus only on core brands and the CryEngine.
Even now, after losing Warface, the company emphasizes again that it wants to focus on its own “core brands” and long-term plans.
At the moment, the focus of Crytek seems to be on “Hunt: Showdown” which is still in Early Access on Steam. Additionally, Crytek is working on a new title together with the wonder technology SpatialOS.
