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I don't see how fragmenting CryEngine benefits that much considering they're all on the same licensed CryEngine. Amazon paid $50m for the CryEngine and Amazon s

I don't see how fragmenting CryEngine benefits that much considering they're all on the same licensed CryEngine. Amazon paid $50m for the CryEngine and Amazon said Lumberyard is free to use with their AWS services. I think it makes sense for CIG to use Lumberyard's engine with AWS integration, especially it saves them a lot of money not licensing their own CryEngine fork and they're using AWS anyway.

scrollaway 10y ago
CIG probably has more crytek talent than crytek themselves. It wouldn't be fragmenting, at this point.
wavefunction 10y ago
As far as I knew, the plan was to use the various Google Cloud services for the backend, but I wonder if CIG found the offerings from Google too paltry. AWS seems to have better geographical proximity for Australia and South America, along with Asia in general, which was a complaint/concern among backers from Asia and Australia and South America. As far as the license for CryEngine, I believe that wasn't an ongoing cost per se. I know CIG has done a bunch of customization (64-bit floating point precision vs 32-bit floating precision the biggest) but they were originally talking about folding some of those changes back into the general CryTek offering. I wonder if they're instead going to offer that to Amazon for Lumberyard as a cost offset to their use of the services. Star Citizen would be a pretty big feather in the cap for Lumberyard, as well. I'm optimistic about the game's development.