Hero Engine: why?

While you try and act witty, like the minimum wage coffee shop guy who thinks he's cool listening to the 'newest' beats and his grunge hair I present:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1T0OisXdew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQ1J...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfDTb...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Vfg...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJWWV...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJD4...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oxj-6n69uw

Remember to open your character pane in moderation! Don't want to crash the client now do ya!!

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?

People and companies make multi million dollar mistakes all the time. It doesn't take special inside information to see these mistakes. Take Netflix's recent price changes, Google Wave or the classic New Coke launch. Or even the SWG NGE. These are smart people and smart companies making mistakes. I don't need to be there: an unproven and old game engine from a tiny company isn't a good choice for a $100m+ MMO. This isn't rocket science, this is project management 101. We do have the benefit of looking at the game engine market from a 2012 perspective and it looked different in 2008 when they selected their engine. But given what HeroEngine hasn't done it's hard to argue that BW made a good decision.

I'm not seeing where this engine has any respect. It's all hype and the only hype is because BW chose them and not because of anything about the engine itself. It hasn't had a single successful game launched using it. You earn respect in this industry. It doesn't come from sales literature or feature lists. Gamebryo has a long list(300+) of successful games. CryEngine was used by Aion and guess what, it supports DX10 and DX11 unlike HeroEngine. Even BigWorlds has a bunch of game launches behind it. BTW, HeroEngine isn't new. It was announced back in 2006. Five years without a successful product.

I can also imagine the work needed to make the game as I've actually worked with game engines. I've modified them, wrote scripts for game logic and build game environments. Mostly low end engines or engines developed in-house. Most engines come with tool sets. The quality varies greatly. Some things like models and game logic you're going to need to make no matter what. With models you use something like 3d Studio MAX and with scripts just use your favorite editor. Even with the best tools any game and especially an MMO are a lot of work.

Again this isn't a new engine it's an old one. You see it with the lack of multi-core support and lack of DX10/DX11 support.

I think you're confused about the 'quick and easy' route. HeroEngine is the 'quick and easy' route. A proven engine is more money and more work. Take for example, CryEngine 3, which is from early 2009 (and announced about three months after BW chose HeroEngine), has more features and over 20 online games have licensed it. The quality of that engine blows HeroEngine away.

I'm not sure why you defend their engine choice. Graphically SWtOR isn't anything special and we're already seeing issues with FPS and action response times. I'm sure the BW and HeroEngine devs will fix or improve the issues over time, but to me it's a problem that has kept me from playing the game and is very likely going to result is lost subscriptions.

Just to be clear I want SWtOR to be the best MMO ever and I like the game itself. I just think they made a bad decision and their success will be more of a challenge because of it. The game had the largest MMO launch ever and is mostly playable so it's not a failure. You make a bad decision and you deal with it the best you can.

And as the person stated, it was resolved. Those vids are old.

Your trying to hard, Shady. Practice is good, though.

I have and the major response from those that do respond is they are having fun.

My logic is sound, your skills are minimal at best.

Practice

Nice to see you watched none of the videos. Please go back to your secret underground Bioware Defense Force base, the blind defending of this game is making me weary.

Would all of a player base be playing to make it a player base? Anyway, just because you don't have the problem does not make it non existant for other people.