I think that it is more a business consideration. Do you want to have a pro or casual engine, a commercial or indie engine ? CE is a very good engine, the only available engine which is on the level of UDK. But the problem is, that it is still a young engine compared to other engines, and they need to place their engine as…
CryEngine3 is actually more advanced than the UDK while being younger. Unreal Engine 4 will have the same tech that Crytek had when they released Crysis 2 a couple of years ago. It really depends on your preference and how many features you are looking for. Unreal Engine 3 is very dated and it shows in every game that is…
The beautiful thing about making a game is aside from the terrain & particles, its really not complicated to swap all your models that are in maya / max to another engine. Code is a different story. Although cryengine 3 uses c++ which the next unreal engine 4 also uses. I would hope you can still somewhat transfer that…
It is because they only want quality games using their engine. Projects that stand a chance to get a license will have to contact them directly to get the ball rolling. I have a friend who is working on a Ce3 licensed game and he did it this way (contacting + having the proper skilled project to show).
Yeah, this all seems odd to me as well. I suppose we will have to wait, I don't know how easily someone can transfer their scripts, code, models, and stuff to another engine without breaking their work. But if something does happen...surely Crytek will have a bit of a mess on their end.
I ask why not because the engine isn't spectacular. I ask why because after a full year of being released, Crytek apparently has refused to provide a public explanation behind the indie license. There are literally dozens of teams that are complaining about not receiving responses from the licensing submission form, and…
Except that e-freak is from Crytek. So he probably knows about the stuff you're talking about. Seems unlikely that there would be some back-dealings here. That they've "shammed" the industry is entirely subjective. You're getting a free version of their engine. And they made it clear that if you demonstrate your project,…
There's no conspiracy. It's a single company and a negligent media. Both act on their own. Nobody suggested otherwise. To point out the media's failure is not to point to conspiracy, but rather to laziness. Make a game that doesn't suck? With respect, that's no way to run a business. Making a game that doesn't suck costs…
Bigjohn, they don't make that clear at all. They only provide a very ambiguous statement, which has been quoted here numerous times. It can be interpreted in half a dozen ways. There is no way that I'm aware of that you can show your in progress game to Crytek. They don't seem to be responding to anyone's communication.…