Hero Engine: why?

0/10.

It's true. Why not use blizzard's engine to run your game? Sure, you help the rich get richer, but good grief at least you get rich too.

Like the guy said earlier EVERY MMO has posts on their public forum saying the game engine sucks and basically everything sucks about the game. You can even find these posts on the WOW forums. The only difference is Blizzard has a tendency to delete/ban people for creating those posts while bioware allows those posts to continue..

Why did you choose an Engine that wasn't developed to your exact specifications? I mean, EA and BW make enough, you could have outsourced your Engine development and made the engine fit your game.

Instead, you chose the lazy way and are trying to make a game fit an engine. Not only that, you picked a terrible single-threaded engine that can't even process commands before animations finish, hence all of the ability delay rage you're seeing.


Seriously. Blizzard built an engine to fit their game, they're billions (trillions yet?) richer. You didn't, and you're missing out on Billions in part due to this decision.
Why?

That engine is probably (most definitively) not for sale, and besides, it has it's own limitations.

Warhammer did the same thing. If I could kick the guy in the nads who chose Warhammer's engine I would do so gladly.

The hero engine is bad. Champions has the same ability lag this game suffers from.

The Hero Engine was chosen by BioWare because at the time it was all the talk of the idiots at E3 who even managed to give a Best in Show award to the game it was developed for - Hero's Journey - which turned out to be complete vaporware. The Hero Engine was designed by a game company, Simutronics, which is almost entirely a text-based MUD game designer with no experience in graphical MMO's.

The Hero Engine is and was nothing more than a money-making scheme for Simutronics and Hero's Journey turned out to be nothing more than a slick way to sell the game engine. It is still knocking about, still vaporware too, at a German company now. But that company is run by the ex-CFO of Simutronics and that tells you all you need to know about what is really going on with it.

Why did you choose an Engine that wasn't developed to your exact specifications? I mean, EA and BW make enough, you could have outsourced your Engine development and made the engine fit your game.

Instead, you chose the lazy way and are trying to make a game fit an engine. Not only that, you picked a terrible single-threaded engine that can't even process commands before animations finish, hence all of the ability delay rage you're seeing.


Seriously. Blizzard built an engine to fit their game, they're billions (trillions yet?) richer. You didn't, and you're missing out on Billions in part due to this decision.
Why?

QFT

I assume it was a funding thing, so maybe they couldn't afford to build they're own engine from scratch. Or perhaps they simply didn't have a development team capable of doing it, and they didn't want to bring in new people.

I just wish they had picked a better engine. There were alternatives available.

Either way it's a real shame, and the game has suffered for it. The ability lag and the performance problems alone are a nightmare.