Good example would be Dawn of War 2, the game was pretty broken in the beginning and many people complained at balance issues and Dawn of War's eminent dismiss. But, Dawn of War 2 had many patches with dramatic changes, several expansions and still kicking about.
However, Warhammer 40.000 is totally different franchise compared to Crysis and Relic have done an "All inn" commitment to Warhammer 40.000 universe. Makes sense they do everything in their might to keep their games alive.
Now I dont know what Crytek's ambitions are, do they want to become the next Epic Games and create epic game engines or do they wish to develop epic games like Blizzard? Most likely neither...
