I can't believe that there are this many people willing to defend Epic
I have no problem with a smaller Dev using Unreal Engine cause they don;t have their own in house engine
The problem i have is the proven and big dev abandoning their proven in house engine to switch to UE5
Don't do that Craig, just stop. Don't turn this into a picking sides, tribal, cheerleading type thing just cause I'm saying my opinion on it. Stop man, its so immature.
I'm just telling you how I feel about the situation. If its in support of Epic's situation, then so be it. My comment stands.
A business doing a good job to the point of getting many people using their product, has the right to continue to make said product.
They are not making anyone by force leave those engines or something, unless you have any evidence that they've done such a thing, in that respect, of course I'd tell you thats wrong and NEVER defend such a thing, but what I'm telling you is in defense of ANY FUCKING BUSINESS, its not solely about defending Epic as some personal stance. When I talk about business on here, I never mix those 2 concepts, as in you'll see me make many points in support of a business even if you read in another post that I never buy their games or I hate them personally or some shit, cause this is irrelevant to the topic.
So sir, if the engine was "proven", the would have not abandoned it.
Look at Sony, they are masters at using their own engines and many of their teams share that info and do amazing things. The Last Guardian, The Last Of Us, GT series, Uncharted, God Of War, Spiderman and so many more that doesn't mean Sony Bend can't use Unreal Engine. If THAT one team likes to use that, then so be it. It got the game out and it makes sense for the team to stick to what makes sense for them.
Look at EA. Fucking horror show with Mass Effect, Anthem...maybe don't force a team to use an engine they struggle with. Star Wars Fallen Order? Did amazing, used Unreal. Why should EA accept yet another flop to try to get a team to use an engine they made, that doesn't work right? They are correct to give that freedom and move the fuck on if it doesn't work for some teams.
Thus, DICE can work with Frostbite, Bioware....not so much, thus it makes sense to give them that freedom if its not working out.
So you need to be specific and let me know what perfectly fine engine was working out for a publisher, that switched to UE5 cause EPIC MADE THEM DO IT? You can't say I'm defending Epic based on theses comments and you've yet to even prove some intent or purposeful act to make anyone use UE instead of their own engine or something. With all do respect Craig, I'd say you are attacking Epic more then I'm defending them.....
"game dev with long history of using their own in house game engine should continue to use their own develop engine instead of switching"
Look...I don't disagree with that IF the engine is working out for them, but you need to prove when such a thing has occurred and how Epic forced it to happen before I co-sign to them being public enemy number 1 man.