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I will never again, in my entire life, even consider CryEngine. Believe me when I say they treat like absolute dirt and is NOT just a case by case situation. They are quick to raise their noses in the air if they deem you “unworthy” which essentially means “unwealthy.” I just spend the past month on their forums and the experience was abysmal, not because of the community but because of their staff members. After respectfully voicing my frustration with the fact that Crytek won’t communicate with their indie community and only gives info to big licensees, one of their staff members went on a rant accusing me of “faking” my frustration, and tried to pretend that he didn’t understand what I was talking about. He then went on to dump on those who were suggesting better integration for non-autodesk software (like blender), telling them they should be using the 3DS student license, as if to suggest that clearly these couldn’t be competent enough to release a game (as you cannot release a game commercially using an autodesk student license).
The kicker here is that he was not a forum moderator, but rather a “Database Support” employee, whatever the hell that means. After reading the Crytek employee’s endless attack paragraphs I promptly called him a “degenerate” and explained to him that accusing people of faking frustration is an idiotic way of responding to someone who is frustrated, it only aggravates the situation further. I was immediately perma-banned from the website, for “staff abuse.” gets worse, after he instantly perma-banned me, he wen’t on to respond to my post and purposefully pretended as if he had clearly explained why I shouldn’t be frustrated, and he tried to make it seem as if I was somehow misleading , knowing that he had just banned me and that I couldn’t respond. I had heard stories on websites like facepunch of Crytek employees trolling the community and banning them, but I had never witnessed something like until then.
Take it from me, is not an isolated situation, they are dirt. Besides, you should never depend on a company like Crytek to maintain an engine that you license for a game, Cevat Yerli is really a very clueless individual, just look at how he handled Crysis 2 - “We’re not making it sandbox, because we feel that sandbox games are for elitists.” was the beginning of the end, now, they’re pumping out trash like Ryse: of Rome and a DOTA clone.
Not to mention, you don’t get a source code unless you pay $1.2 million, and their documentation is laughably awful. There is a reason that almost no one but Crytek made commercial games on CryEngine, especially Indies, with the only exception being Cloud Imperium Games, and they’re lucky enough to have friends at Crytek (Warhorse too, which are friends with Cloud Imperium Games, who have friends at Crytek).
TL;DR -
If you don’t have friends in high places, you’re “unworthy” to Crytek.
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I was there. You got banned for being a jerk. If I had had a ban button I would’ve banned you myself. Also Rayfan is a she, and does not work for CryTek. I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said, but spewing verbal/written abuse over someone else’s opinion about 3D modeling software is puerile.
Edit: ://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=83635&start=1314 the post in question.
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