Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by kizer on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:21PM (#29982398)

I made this point in another comment thread, but I think MS would make a competitor to Unreal/Unity instead. Think of all the game engine talent they now have. The IW engine for CoD, Halo’s slipspace, WoW. They could readily assemble a team to build an engine on par with Unreal.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by oneoff786 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:11PM (#29986758)

I could see it happen, but I feel a lot of these home grown engines are just too driven by tribal knowledge to be easily released to the public.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by sk0g on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:56AM (#29990458)

If it's any consolation, so too is Unreal, from my experience. A lot of the times the only documentation on a feature will be random Youtubers, and an official 3 hour stream from 4 years ago. Oh and the source code, of course.

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