Do you think RAGE will be a sales flop?

[richardhutnik]

Narishma said:

richardhutnik said:

yahoocom1984 said:
The development of this game is mostly for engie (ID tech 5), after Rage, they will use same engine to make Doom 4 and Quake 5.

Id software has huge IPs

And with that, make a chunk of change licensing the engine out to other developers to use.  There is money, money, money in licensing out engines.  Epic gets a good revenue stream from licensing out their engine.

Nope. They aren't interested in licensing their engines. They did it reluctantly in the past because there were basically no other good options. Nowadays you have Unreal Engine, CryEngine, Unity and more. In case you haven't noticed, they stopped licensing their engines after Quake 3, except for companies they outsource their IPs to like Raven and Splash Damage.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29886/id_Tech_5_Rage_Engine_No_Longer_Up_For_External_Licensing.php

Interesting.  Looks like iD's acquisition had changed their tune.  Looks like the acquisition of them made the engine just for use by Zenimax companies.