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Thank you! I hate this massive imbalance in the publicity. UE4 gets almost everything. When a game is in UE4, you can be sure it will be mention in every articl

by Aoyagi 11y ago

Thank you! I hate this massive imbalance in the publicity. UE4 gets almost everything. When a game is in UE4, you can be sure it will be mention in every article about the game, likely even in the title. But CryEngine? Nothing. CE5 was released and the only thing that's happened was that a few people found out CE(4) existed.

trendnet 11y ago
How many games were released on CryEngine? How many on UE 3/4? How many devs are there from the UE 3 days when a lot of AAA titles were some in-house UE 3 variants. I love Crytek products, but I don't see any problems with the upvote distribution. Don't forget that every minor release of UE 4 contains an enormous list of new features and bug fixes which is impressive in its own way considering the release cycle is 3-4 months.
krisdol 11y ago
As a Linux user, most other engines, including CryEngine, have nothing to offer me. Unreal was also the first "free" open source release of that class of engine.
- coldtea 11y ago
  Well, it's not Linux is the primary target for commercial game engines (Unreal included) in the first place. Desktop Linux is a tiny niche (measured to below 2%), and Linux gaming even smaller part of that. Heck, even OS X which got around 10% doesn't get much love, gaming wise...
  - mixedCase 11y ago
    >Desktop Linux is a tiny niche (measured to below 2%), Not for developers. And both Unreal and Unity have Linux editors and support compiling for Linux.
    - coldtea 11y ago
      Not for web/server/backend developers, but YES for game developers.
      - jaegerpicker 11y ago
        No for game developers. A lot of big studios sure but A LOT of indie devs and mobile game devs are mostly developing in Linux or mostly Mac OS X because if you are a mobile dev you have to support iOS. The game dev world is a lot larger than the latest AAA game.
        coldtea 11y ago
        >The game dev world is a lot larger than the latest AAA game. Yes. But while the iOS casual game dev world is in the millions, the Linux game world is still small.
  - krisdol 11y ago
    That's why CryEngine is not making news by following in some limited footsteps of Unreal. Unreal's focus on linux is news, as was its initial open sourcing and drastic price drop. Plus, it has a very long, old history that many folks of all ages here are already familiar with.

by Aoyagi 11y ago

trendnet 11y ago

How many games were released on CryEngine? How many on UE 3/4? How many devs are there from the UE 3 days when a lot of AAA titles were some in-house UE 3 variants. I love Crytek products, but I don't see any problems with the upvote distribution. Don't forget that every minor release of UE 4 contains an enormous list of new features and bug fixes which is impressive in its own way considering the release cycle is 3-4 months.

krisdol 11y ago

As a Linux user, most other engines, including CryEngine, have nothing to offer me. Unreal was also the first "free" open source release of that class of engine.

coldtea 11y ago
Well, it's not Linux is the primary target for commercial game engines (Unreal included) in the first place. Desktop Linux is a tiny niche (measured to below 2%), and Linux gaming even smaller part of that. Heck, even OS X which got around 10% doesn't get much love, gaming wise...
- mixedCase 11y ago
  >Desktop Linux is a tiny niche (measured to below 2%), Not for developers. And both Unreal and Unity have Linux editors and support compiling for Linux.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    Not for web/server/backend developers, but YES for game developers.
    - jaegerpicker 11y ago
      No for game developers. A lot of big studios sure but A LOT of indie devs and mobile game devs are mostly developing in Linux or mostly Mac OS X because if you are a mobile dev you have to support iOS. The game dev world is a lot larger than the latest AAA game.
      - coldtea 11y ago
        >The game dev world is a lot larger than the latest AAA game. Yes. But while the iOS casual game dev world is in the millions, the Linux game world is still small.
- krisdol 11y ago
  That's why CryEngine is not making news by following in some limited footsteps of Unreal. Unreal's focus on linux is news, as was its initial open sourcing and drastic price drop. Plus, it has a very long, old history that many folks of all ages here are already familiar with.