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Well a simplistic answer would be that if you have a better codebase than your direct competition then the opportunity to crib large parts of your code might en
by frou_dh 3y ago
Well a simplistic answer would be that if you have a better codebase than your direct competition then the opportunity to crib large parts of your code might end up making their game attractive enough that some customers end up buying it instead of yours.
- indeyets 3y agoNot really. Barely anyone buys game for the engine. The story and game mechanics are much more important.
- sho_hn 3y agoIn the sim game genre, the two are somewhat intertwined and customers are also more aware of what the engine does. Car and flight enthusiast sim people absolutely do shop for physics, flight model, and so on to some extent. I don't know where on the spectrum from casual to enthusiast sim War Thunder is. I looked at YouTube and the game looks graphically primitive, so the engine would have to do something else that's impressive.