makingmusic476 on 03 October 2008
xman said: Didnt EA try this before when they bought out the Quake engine, and thats when epics unreal engine took off. All thre other publishers didnt want to lease there engine from EA? Its a bad idea for me for Epic to team up with EA. EA puts out shoddy work in my opinion |
No, that was Criterion and their Renderware engine, which was quite popular last gen before the buy out.
Buying out the creators of a popular (or THE popular) engine certainly isn't out of the ordinary for EA.