Re:Microsoft acquires Havok
by maximilianburke on Sunday October 04, 2015 @02:11PM
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> Where is Renderware now?
Thankfully confined to the dustbins of history.
EA didn't buy Renderware, they bought Criterion largely for their games studio and just happened to get Renderware as part of the package. The later versions of Renderware were, uhm, not good products so it is just as well they weren't generally available.
Re:Microsoft acquires Havok
by dclowd9901 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:05PM
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All this means is that MS is hedging their investments. Now for every dollar a Sony game makes (that has the Havok engine), MS is going to get a cut.
It may be that Sony willingly boxes out MS by going with another engine, but the games industry doesn't seem that bitter.
Sony has nothing to do with this. It's the game developers who use the engine.
Re:Microsoft acquires Havok
by dclowd9901 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @11:04PM
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Yes, and Sony produces games, and also entices developers to create exclusives. Those possibly use Havok and Sony may ask exclusives developers not to license it.
If Microsoft either stops supporting non-MS platform or makes them 2nd class (new features first appear on MS platform) then yes, this is a huge problem.
Remember when EA bought Renderware back when tons of game studios were using it? GTA3 was written with it. Where is Renderware now?
It's certainly possible nothing will change but it's just as possible the glaring conflict of interest will influence things badly.