DasReviews writes: "Today is the big day for Crytek, as Crysis 2 is being released. PC gamers around the world have been waiting patiently for this moment but there is something just not right. Forget the beta and the demo that had major ‘consolified’ features. Let’s concentrate on the final PC version that is released and see how Crytek have literally doomed the PC version of Crysis 2..."
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
Dam you Crytec dam you to HELL, misses bought this on Steam for me this Friday and you have gimped it for the consoles, so it going to look worse than Crysis Warhead thank you very much nice end to crap day at work and now my cup of tea is cold as well,did I say dam you, well DAM YOU TO HELL AGAIN......................... ..............................
It's unfortunate for the PC gamers but I don't think Crytek had any other option. They had to go multi plat because well making Crysis is probably a very expensive project. Developing for 3 different platforms makes it even harder. They might of made a worse off PC version but in the end you have to remember there probably wouldn't be a Crysis 2 in the 1st place.
Excerpt from PC Gamer review:
"This game may look and play best on PC, but the cross-platform development has definitely had an impact. Specifically, it’s disappointing to see that Crysis 2 makes some absolutely baffling technical omissions. The graphics settings menu offers just four areas to adjust: resolution, v-sync, HUD bobbing, and one of three pre-defined quality settings. Why can’t I pick what level of anti-aliasing or shadow quality I want in PC gaming’s most beautiful game? Quick-saving, too, is replaced by checkpoint autosaves; a developer console was also nowhere to be found."
all I have to say is F YOU CRYTEK.
big disappointment for pc gamers
maybe wee see dx11 but just maybe
I have no problem Crytec doing consoles as that were the money is, even my son getting the Xbox 360 version, but the end of the day their job is to do the best version for each platform. They promised so much, these guys are Graphic Kings on the PC, its the PC gamers that made them what they are. I would have not bothered if the PC version was 6 - 12 months later with DX11 from the start but this feels a betrayal, no doubt I'll get over it but after reading reports on the internet Im on a downer least till MotorStorm Apoc comes out : )