Exactly. This is essentially updated EaaS but free. The pipeline is still a nightmare, especially if you don’t have $4000 software like and Maya.
And they are even putting their tutorials behind a paywall. 50 EUR a month for webminars/exclusive part of their answerhub, whereas UE4 does free twitch streaming to help its users.
Edit: I guess the paywall is justified because CE is royalty-free, unlike Unreal 5%. But still, that makes Crytek more disconnected from its users compared to Epic’s constant communication.