Goodbye SAGE Engine... Hello Frostbite 2

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Fair enough, but I find that TW and RA3 fairly smoothly compared to Generals and Zero Hour. It's still unoptimized bull****, but later iterations were much improved. At least they were for me. ZH is just... clunky.

[Gben 20]

So I hear a lot of talk about higher specs with this new engine.

 

What is the possibility that 'optimisation' will reduce specs to a more standard level at the time of the release?

What is the probability that the developers will intentionally lower specs to widen the audience rather than keep high specs for a decaying pc-only genre?

[Chimas 7]

Maybe a thread about Mod and Game Lauching would be interesting.

 

As far as I understood, game profits rely a lot on first impact. It seems to be very "short-timed". (I didn't say it must be done this way)

In the other hand a mysterious and delayed pre-launching environment has its role and might depend on modder's opinions for that.

Modder's might be the early adopters of an idea when the game is under development.

The doubt/debate inside or outside EA and others is or will be what is the weight of influence modding will have on future INCOME.

 

So, you tell me, what has been the effective role of modding for income and then you will have a better picture about modding with the next engine.

But I am really asking, I have no clue about it. A list of "moddable" games with positive and negative evaluations compared to their income will tell us a lot about the next practices of the game industry ...