Bence "Beadyboy" Hamos has left Crytek in a recent round of layoffs affecting at least 30 employees. The veteran community manager for Hunt: Showdown stated that the layoffs came without warning, leaving him shocked and saddened by the sudden departure, though he holds no resentment toward his former colleagues.
Hamos joined Crytek in 2018, rising from a social media role to Senior Live Manager. He long introduced updates, events, and controversial topics for Hunt: Showdown through streams, vlogs, and social media content, gradually becoming one of the most recognizable community figures for the title. He reflected that over nine years, the game had occupied nearly his entire adult life.
In Hamos's view, community managers must truly be part of the community. He personally played Hunt: Showdown for over 2,000 to 3,000 hours and used to collect feedback weekly or biweekly from Steam, Reddit, Discord, social platforms, and direct messages, organizing the data into positive, mixed, and negative categories for the development team to evaluate.
He also cautioned that the most vocal high-level players may represent less than 1% of the total user base, and game balance adjustments should not rely solely on forum noise. After leaving, Hamos joined Good Fun Corporation, founded by former Hell Let Loose developers, in October to continue handling community and social responsibilities; the team is currently developing the extraction RPG Hunger.