well epic left PC for dead, so GO EA KILL KILL!... jokes, but yea as long as EA isnt makign crap nemore im kewl wiht them, i mean Dice dev group is one of my favs,.... so much time on BF2....
If anyone buys Epic, then it's not just bad for Xbox 360 supporters, or just even gamers. Don't Epic basically own the Unreal Engine? Go through you're games collection, and see if you can find any game using the Unreal engine. If you can't, then it's likely because you have some sort of righteous crusade against Epic, and you go to great lengths to avoid purchasing anything using the Unreal engine (1, 2 or 3 all count). It would be terrible for developers if they could only gain access to the Unreal engine through one publisher. Owning Epic would be an invaluable asset, and I'm supprised EA would turn down any offer.
If anyone buys Epic, then it's not just bad for Xbox 360 supporters, or just even gamers. Don't Epic basically own the Unreal Engine? Go through you're games collection, and see if you can find any game using the Unreal engine. If you can't, then it's likely because you have some sort of righteous crusade against Epic, and you go to great lengths to avoid purchasing anything using the Unreal engine (1, 2 or 3 all count). It would be terrible for developers if they could only gain access to the Unreal engine through one publisher. Owning Epic would be an invaluable asset, and I'm supprised EA would turn down any offer. WasntAvailable
EA bought Criterion when they used RenderWare, which was pretty much the de facto PS2 middleware. Strangely, EA seemed to have dropped it rather than milk it. I don't really know wtf was happening there.
I think RenderWare was mostly used in racing games. I also think it was droped due to a failure to keep the engine up to date with rival engines such as Unreal. Perhaps that might explain why EA are unwilling to buyout Epic, perhaps they don't want to see the same thing happen with Unreal.
I honestly wouldn't care, the last two games from Epic that came to PC were both disappointing. That and Cliffy B's constant need to verbally diareer all over Epic's oldest fanbase.
This is one game company I will not pity should they get assimilated by the borg, if anything maybe EA will force Cliffy B to stop treating all PC gamers like criminals.
thats terrrible Epic games isnt even that experiencednaruto7777
Uh. Really? Didn't they release their first game 17 years ago? (yes, I had to look that up) Didn't they make one of the most popular multiplayer franchises ever?
I think RenderWare was mostly used in racing games. I also think it was droped due to a failure to keep the engine up to date with rival engines such as Unreal. Perhaps that might explain why EA are unwilling to buyout Epic, perhaps they don't want to see the same thing happen with Unreal.WasntAvailable
Racing games (Burnout and co), Sports games (PES, Tony Hawk), FPS (BF Modern Combat), Action/Adventure (Crackdown, GTA3 / VC / SA), Strategy (Settlers)... it was used by a ton of games. EA's official reason was that they didn't think it was keeping up with UE3, but everybody I heard from seemed like they just dropped it overall, period. Even for people that wanted it. And... well, you see how the engine turned out in Burnout Paradise.
Well mabye EA arn't very intrested in having any sort of control over the actual engines used in games. Perhaps there are restrictions put in place by competitions agencies? I don't really know why EA droped Renderware as a third party tool, espically when it was seen as such a popular and robust engine.
[QUOTE="imprezawrx500"]epic games have gone down hill so who cares?zomgwtfbbqlol1
i liked Unreal, now its crap, also all they care about is gears
exactly and it looks like they will milk it till no one buys it since its the same game and then complain about no one buying their games when its their own fault.
Well mabye EA arn't very intrested in having any sort of control over the actual engines used in games. Perhaps there are restrictions put in place by competitions agencies? I don't really know why EA droped Renderware as a third party tool, espically when it was seen as such a popular and robust engine.WasntAvailable
Yeah, there weren't any restrictions that I heard of. It was just weird. Even for the companies that would have been competing against EA... even if they wanted it, EA's stance sounded kind of like 'nah it's okay, we're axing the whole thing anyway, just forget about it.' Kinda like if... say, Google bought Valve, and one of their first moves was to just kill off Steam completely, saying 'just use Impulse instead, we think it's better.' It's just weird haha.
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