Sorry guys, just had to vent. I was just browsing around checking out Crytek’s new game engine CryEngine 3.. http://crytek.com/cryengine/cryengine3/overview
It looks amazing, and it seems they have worked in some sort of what you see is what you get editor called LiveCreate. Which is really appealing to someone like me who would love to jump in and play around creating a world and some sort of small, low key game. They even mention somewhere on their site that using this tool, anyone with access to some models, with little to no experience, could jump in and make a working game pretty easily.
All excited, I start browsing around hoping to find a place to download their sandbox tool, and I find their licensing page. Where they basically state they aren’t licensing the tool to individuals. They’re only providing it to legitimate game studios.
I question why they’d waste all of their time making a tool that’s accessible to people with little experience, only to make it not possible for those very people to use it. They need to take a note from Unity’s playbook and make their software available to EVERYONE ! Then if you do manage to make something, charge you to publish it! Not make the tool work for everyone, but not let anyone use it. WTF ?!
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