Check out the last few pages of this thread http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132602&page=5 They've canceled 2 games, reports say they are having issues paying people, they've told employees to not talk to the press, their new engine subscription model has been poorly received. It's been a bad year for Crytek…
Your comparison isn't exactly equal though. Dota 2, like many other competitively designed games, obviously has a lot of psychology to it, but that psychology isn't limited to gold farming. Theoretically speaking, if you take out gold farming phases, then what are you left with? You'll probably be doing the same thing -…
I think the problem with Crytek is that they are always behind the swing of the industry or just can't predict the trends. After the success of Crysis 1 they wanted to get in on the console gaming scene that was exploding at the time. Crysis 2 was a success on consoles, but Crysis 3 flopped because the console market…
There really isn't. It doesn't take skill to take out an AI enemy that is designed to be weaker than you, the only skill involved with the task is learning how to get the last hit but even then, one can learn how to do that after a couple of matches. I suppose you could argue that skillful play during the gold phase comes…