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I’ve got to say that I’m impressed that CDPR is still developing the RedEngine and pushing feature updates to a three year old game.
I wonder what’ll happen to the engine devs as the switch to UE5. I’m a layman, but I assume there will be plenty of work with plugins and alternate implementations to code for. But I also assume some devs would be itching to keep making their own in-house engine. If for no other reason then that they have done amazing work so far with “their” RedEngine. And that’s got to feel very gratifying.
I've heard some rumors that most of the original RedEngine staff left and CDPR cannot afford/don't want to hire more devs for it since they will have to be heavily trained in this engine. Instead it's easier for them to move devs to new projects like Polaris and Orion to avoid crunch this time.
Hope they'll make it open and available to people, after the unity fiasco and ue monopoly we need a new open source engine
Seems unlikely for them of open source the engine as they’re switching away from it. Why give away all that dev time and effort and not gain any benefit from it? While I think it’s the correct move to open source it and let the community take over development, a for profit company is never gonna do that unless they would benefit. Like open sourcing the engine while still using it so you get a wider amount of devs throwing their efforts in. So for a company, they get “free” dev work, and in return for those same devs get to use the engine on whatever project they want without licensing issues. Open sourcing abandoned or depreciated software, especially game engines, really is a dead legacy of a simpler time in computing. Gone are the days of companies like ID open sourcing their engines and games once their release cycle was done. With the advent of always online and games as a service, we’ll never seen major companies ever release old games as open source since even a 40 year old game can be monetized in a modern digital store.
Why not, though? Sunk costs and all that. World gets more open code, which is not a bad thing. They don't really lose much and they would gain goodwill, even if they said they are not going to maintain it.