The MSUC is a perfect example of what the game industry is up to at the moment. And guys. It won't be getting any better.
With the start of Unreal Engine V3 you will have highly powerful engines on the market. You will have scenes that contain 1.000.000 polygons and even more. You will have super high resolution textures. And what does that lead to? Yes. You will have teams of 50 or people that work on a game. Steve Polge said they have a Programmer to Artist Ratio of 1:2 at the moment and with the new engines it will prolly be 1:3 or 1:4.
It's all becoming like hollywood. Games will costs maybe several million dollars to create. There will be
no publisher buying a 1 million dollar engine to support your game, if it's nothing that will survive on the market.
And there is the problem. The publishers are just anxious people that don't give creative teams a chance. It's far more easier to do another sequel of a megaseller like UT2003, UT2004, Unreal Championship, Doom3, Half Life 2 and so on. You barely see any new ideas on the market, because large publishers won't support them.
There might be some small teams that have a cool idea, but they can't afford a good engine. So they have to build their own, which is just a damn lot of work. And in the end it won't look nearly as good as the Unreal Engine, because people worked on the UE for 8 years.
And that's prolly what made the MSUC judges to decide this way. Maybe the Epic judges vote for the more creaive mods. Or maybe even not. The winning mod is like a hudge advertisement for their engine. They want to show companies what can be easily done with the engine from amateurs. And they want to sell their goddamn engine. It's a profit oriented company. Even CliffyB said that once.
So it's no wonder that a uninspired WW2 shooter won the contest. It's maybe nicely done ( never play it ), but the idea is just boring as hell. I am not arguing for DB here. It's just sad that uninspired ripp off mods ( and maps too ) can win a contest which had a lot more potential...
"It is a WW2 setting, but it is a little different in that it concentrates on the Eastern front conflicts between the Soviet Union and Germany."
Ya thanks to hal from BU. That was
the most ridiculous try to defend an uninspired boring mod idea. I just laughed my ass off.
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