Reports are beginning to surface that Crytek’s Shanghai office has closed, which employed around 20 or so individuals at the time of its closure. TechRaptor took note of the news from various posts made by industry economic analyst Daniel Ahmed, who posted up the information on his Twitter account.
Crytek kept promising pay but nothing happened.
Crytek Shanghai looked to go independent but that seems to have fallen through too.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 17, 2017
Ahmed also follows up the allegations with proof of an e-mail sent by the Shanghai offices to employees stating that they would be paid eventually… even though it supposedly never happened.
So now there are lots of people without a job and they were all messed around and promised pay they never got.
Shameful. pic.twitter.com/lrxrdugxGF
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 17, 2017
For those of you who can’t read the picture in the tweet, it states…
“To clarify the payroll issue and people not attending office. We will pay for full salaries up until Oct 31st [2016] for those that are still with the company now. Of course people that quit earlier will be paid until their last work day.
“Starting from Nov 1st [2016], if staff does not come to office, it will be accountant for as a unpaid day for staff.”
Apparently even up until October 31st, employees reportedly were not paid.
According to the tweets from Ahmed, Crytek Shanghai shutdown after they were unable to pay rent.
This is a mirror story from December, 2016, where Crytek announced that it was shutting down five of its studios around the world, including in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China and Turkey.
According to VentureBeat they don’t mention if the Shanghai studio was part of those five studios – particularly the one in China – but Eurogamer does. Surprisingly, though, the website for Studio Shanghai is still up and running.
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