Hero Engine: why?

I lol'd.

Oh snap, credentials time. I've shipped 3, one of them with a company we're all well acquainted with. My turn. How many have you shipped, what were they, and where is your name in the credits?

But outsourcing your engine is the "lazy" way out? Why don't I believe the above, fantastical story?

Two. I was the I.T. guy though, so it's not terribly relevant, especially since I'm not the one demonstrating a complete lack of game development understanding.

There's plenty of reasons to outsource an engine, and that doesn't make you lazy or incompetent.

It's a bad engine for a game which appears to be dwindling at a drastic rate.

You don't have proof for either of those claims. You just made them up.

I love quoting myself for those who have little to no reading comprehension

Hero engine was not built FOR swtor. It was built to for hero's journey and then turned into a mass usage tool so that indie developers could have a lower cost of entry and less risk to develop their game in a limited scope while still having the architecture to support something that is multiplayer.

When you have the kind of bankroll that EA/BW have. You have zero excuse not to have a custom engine designed for you. So yes, it is in fact lazy and incompetent.

...so?

Because with money, you can just purchase more time, right?

Shipped titles? I'm beginning to think you've never even been employed.

I found updated graphics drivers yesterday, machine two in my home is now wholly playable with SWTOR.

Didn't take any changes to the game engine, just updated drivers dated 1/25/2012.

http://www.torstatus.net/shards/us

Proof that the average number of people playing at any given time is in fact dwindling. It could be that everyone is still paying but just not playing. However, Occam's razor is a fine for the current situation in swtor.

And how is this data collected? With /who? That would make it pretty inaccurate, but that's never stopped people from appealing to these awful tools before.