Yerli thinks Crytek couldn't exist if it was a new company

What's this? He speaks if he started the company with no help whatsoever.

Lies! They were able to finish Far Cry thanks to the fact they sold the franchise to Ubisoft.
Crytek's business model is a dying one. A company alone cannot sustain itself while trying to go for the top of every chart, be it graphical prowess or production values.

Why waste so much time in a graphic engine when no decent licensing is established. iD survives thanks to the constant income of their engines. Same goes for Epic. You don't see these companies spill out many in-house games but when they do, they have much more planned than just releasing a game, they also release a tool for other developers.

Valve follows the same plan, but even broader, being on the frontline of digital distribution. They even started with an iD engine ahah.

So, in short, if you want to build a company from scratch, create a completely new top of the line engine, not show dedication in making it a easy and practical tool for others, create mediocre to reasonable games with it and be dicks about how their stuff doesn't sell, blaming others but themselves... yeah, you'll be closing doors sooner than expected.

If you want to start a modest company with great goals for the future, start spending money with a reasonable expectation of at least getting that money back with some recognition.

And make a damn scalable engine, not everyone has a Pixar render station at home.