Crytek sues Star Citizen for NOT using CryEngine anymore

Looks like Cin, Can and Cem are getting desperate.

 

There I have to disagree. First for selfish reasons, I don't want to be forced to buy new hardware. It runs and it looks good. MA's problems are really elsewhere. First and foremost it's not the coders, but the decision makers.

Now, if we disregard this and imagine MA following suit and moving to Lumberjack as well, imagining the transition mess can't be much worse than it already is since it's a derivative of CE, wouldn't it be an advantage to at least have the underlying engine known to be in the hands of a real company rather than some turkish family business. Heck, they could hire the three geniuses when they hit the floor, provided they can get rid of the chip on their shoulder. I'm not saying they're bad coders, not at all.

 

I have to add "Skyrim".
Well, after using Gamebryo as 3d-engine for their older games, Bethesda decided to make a complete new engine for Skyrim. But hey, they released that game at the end of 2011! Soon they offered a SDK for modders. After many years in Skyrim (lately in VR!!!!!!) I say: with more than 2500 mods you can make your own Skyrim in different versions and play it over and over again. But even for "Oblivion" you could get tons of mods wich improved the game dramatically. With Gamebryo as 3d engine! MA made a big mistake by not listening to their customers. I'm in the outstanding role to be one of the few who could place own ideas and content into the game (the two towers at Monria) without becoming a planet partner. Many others had great ideas and offered help with stories, 3d-models and what not. MA usually refused such offers ...

Sister Kristin and I were always fashion maniacs and spent thousands of RL Euro for such things in EU. Plus haircuts and makeup. But if you look at the content of EU today you will see a lot of cheap bullshit only.
Contrawise Skyrim mods:

 

Awww poor Crytek. It really is a shame that everything has gone so wrong for them. Crazy thing is, say what you will about Mindark, they are actually one of the few companies who succcessfully utilised and deployed the cryengine in their game and probably about the only MMO that went live with it.

I just hope MA are sufficiently grounded enough now in their use of CryEngine that they'll be ok if Crytek go under. Whatever happens, I'll always have fond memories of Cryengine2.

 

This can be solved with blockchain... (and other mad things that don't make sense like Trump)

 

I’ll say this about Trump: at least he’s being himself.

That’s not always a good thing though.

 

This is amazing! I spent the last two hours watching Amazon's videos for a quick start with Lumberyard (site is German, videos are English):
https://aws.amazon.com/de/lumberyard/gettingstarted/
This is probably exactly what I want. Okay, PSVR is not supported yet and VR (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive) is still beta. But with a major player like Amazon as backbone I'm pretty sure I'll be able to enter my own creations soon. And it's for free. Unbelievable!
If nothing happens regarding PSVR I will buy an Ocolus Rift. Although it doesn't look very comfortable. Does it really touch my face?

Downloading Lumberyard right now.

 

New movie:

Amazon Lumberyard Women on the Moon! :)

 

I guess it would be easy to do!

I'm learning Lumberyard right now. Fortunately I know a lot of how 3D design works from my former experiances with 3DS Max and other software. This offer by Amazon has indeed some potential. I'm sure I could deliver way better worlds within a short timeframe than MA does. Not with a small dev team but as one man show. And I am not one of the best but just a hobbyist. What I've learned from the first lessons is: MA missed so many possibilities and made many shitty content. Same with Planet Partners. I agree with NotAdmin: MA isn't and has never been trustworthy. Man! Calypso could be a wonderful interesting and highly detailed world. With really low effort. Alas ...

 

No need to whisper this in small letters. Should slap it in their faces loud and clear. Although I said above this would at least get a company worth the name behind the technical foundation, assuming a transition would be easy and cheap just because the license is free is utterly naive. I just don't know enough about the legal mumbo-jumbo to predict what happens when Crytek bites the dust for good. Looks grim, I think this Döner is eaten.

 

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/developerguide/network-multiplayer-gs.html
Others will follow MA at MMO area. MA is a dead man walking with some artificial parts implanted into the former natural body. It still can walk and act. Their problem is the old brain.