No wonder they havent been linked to.
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Im sorry but has anyone looked at this site? The main page looks horrible as the red block on the bottom for some stupid reason is made of somehting like 15 images. I went to their about us page, their nutshell page and their services page and I still didnt get what the hell they do. Not untill i went to the sucess stories section did I find out that these guys take a look at your product your trying to sell, see whos in the same market, and come up with a catchy name for it. This is found in their naming/branding section however if you dont know anything else about the company that section doesent make any sense. Maybe they should stop and think that the reason why their site isnt liked to is that its poorly constructed and the content is difficult to understand. I would like to know which of their clients they got through their webpage and which ones were acquired through word of mouth.
You do realize that John Carmack is not the CEO of this company and he is exactly what you said an Engineer. While he has a say in the price of the engine he does not have sole say in its price.
Im currently part of a dev team and we are planning on making a game using the d3 engine when it comes out, we were originally thinking of purchasing the q3 engine to use for the game but decided to put it off.
This is why ID can charge 250k for their enging. First of all you are not required to publish the game with ID which is all the better because if you were forced to do that then it would be difficult for a game development company to break into the industry. Second you are not buying license to the engine you bought the entire engine. This means any changes you make in the engine do not have to be given to ID when your done and after all of your development if a company wants to license out their new modified engine to other companies they have the full rights to do so. ID allows this because they believe doing this will allow companies that have bought the engine from them to raise the money to buy the next engine and develop a game from it when comes out.
Ive worked with several games for mod development and I can say that ID probably does the most to support the community that develops for their games. They have provided full documentation for their shader system and their editor for q3 while most other games have half-ast documentation at best. Not to mention that 250k buys you a full day with all of the ID staff in question and answer sessions about anything in the engine.
A final point is that ID has been in the industry from its conception so you know without a doubt you are getting a product from a company which has been around for a while and will continue to be around for a while to come.
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Im sorry but has anyone looked at this site? The main page looks horrible as the red block on the bottom for some stupid reason is made of somehting like 15 images. I went to their about us page, their nutshell page and their services page and I still didnt get what the hell they do. Not untill i went to the sucess stories section did I find out that these guys take a look at your product your trying to sell, see whos in the same market, and come up with a catchy name for it. This is found in their naming/branding section however if you dont know anything else about the company that section doesent make any sense. Maybe they should stop and think that the reason why their site isnt liked to is that its poorly constructed and the content is difficult to understand. I would like to know which of their clients they got through their webpage and which ones were acquired through word of mouth.
You do realize that John Carmack is not the CEO of this company and he is exactly what you said an Engineer. While he has a say in the price of the engine he does not have sole say in its price.
Im currently part of a dev team and we are planning on making a game using the d3 engine when it comes out, we were originally thinking of purchasing the q3 engine to use for the game but decided to put it off.
This is why ID can charge 250k for their enging. First of all you are not required to publish the game with ID which is all the better because if you were forced to do that then it would be difficult for a game development company to break into the industry. Second you are not buying license to the engine you bought the entire engine. This means any changes you make in the engine do not have to be given to ID when your done and after all of your development if a company wants to license out their new modified engine to other companies they have the full rights to do so. ID allows this because they believe doing this will allow companies that have bought the engine from them to raise the money to buy the next engine and develop a game from it when comes out.
Ive worked with several games for mod development and I can say that ID probably does the most to support the community that develops for their games. They have provided full documentation for their shader system and their editor for q3 while most other games have half-ast documentation at best. Not to mention that 250k buys you a full day with all of the ID staff in question and answer sessions about anything in the engine.
A final point is that ID has been in the industry from its conception so you know without a doubt you are getting a product from a company which has been around for a while and will continue to be around for a while to come.