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 Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 13:48 Post subject: CryEngine 2 licensed to develop a MMVW(Virtual World) |
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SAN FRANCISCO – March 7, 2007
– Avatar Reality, Inc., a new development entity
dedicated to the advancement of online community building, today announced that they
will become the first company to license Crytek’s new game middleware,
CryENGINE™2, for use in creating their recently announced massively multiplayer
virtual world (MMVW). Set in Terraformed Mars, Avatar Reality’s MMVW will allow
players to live their fantasy lives by creating personalized characters, or avatars, in a
beautiful environment.
About Avatar Reality, Inc.
Founded in December of 2006, Avatar Reality, Inc. is developing a new massively
multiplayer virtual world (MMVW) featuring stunning graphics, realistic characters and
endless social bonding opportunities. The Honolulu-based company consists of multiple
well-known and award-winning game developers including Henk Rogers, founder of Blue
Planet Software, Blue Lava Wireless and The Tetris Company and Kazuyuki Hashimoto,
former vice president of technology at Electronic Arts (EA) and chief technical officer of
Square USA. Prominent members of Avatar Reality’s advisory board also include:
Minoru Arakawa, former president of Nintendo America and Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris.
http://www.avatar-reality.com/
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 14:21 Post subject: |
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what exactly is a MMVW?
Glad to see the engine is goin public. Hopefully it'll get passed around like the source engine.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 14:27 Post subject: Re: CryEngine 2 licensed to develop a MMVW(Virtual World) |
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| Vodka-Redbull wrote: | SAN FRANCISCO – March 7, 2007
– Avatar Reality, Inc., a new development entity
dedicated to the advancement of online community building, today announced that they
will become the first company to license Crytek’s new game middleware,
CryENGINE™2, for use in creating their recently announced massively multiplayer
virtual world (MMVW). Set in Terraformed Mars, Avatar Reality’s MMVW will allow
players to live their fantasy lives by creating personalized characters, or avatars, in a
beautiful environment.
About Avatar Reality, Inc.
Founded in December of 2006, Avatar Reality, Inc. is developing a new massively
multiplayer virtual world (MMVW) featuring stunning graphics, realistic characters and
endless social bonding opportunities. The Honolulu-based company consists of multiple
well-known and award-winning game developers including Henk Rogers, founder of Blue
Planet Software, Blue Lava Wireless and The Tetris Company and Kazuyuki Hashimoto,
former vice president of technology at Electronic Arts (EA) and chief technical officer of
Square USA. Prominent members of Avatar Reality’s advisory board also include:
Minoru Arakawa, former president of Nintendo America and Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris.
http://www.avatar-reality.com/ |
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deelix
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 14:30 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | what exactly is a MMVW?
Glad to see the engine is goin public. Hopefully it'll get passed around like the source engine. |
Cry engine 1 was only used on Far Cry? Would be nice to see CE2 on new games.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 14:52 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | | SpykeZ wrote: | what exactly is a MMVW?
Glad to see the engine is goin public. Hopefully it'll get passed around like the source engine. |
Cry engine 1 was only used on Far Cry? Would be nice to see CE2 on new games. |
ya that's what I meant. I'm sure people didn't want to buy into the engine as Crytek was new back then. Now that they have the respect of alot of the gaming community I'm sure dev's who want an engine will know to get CE2...hopefully. I have my fingers crossed they do as good with it as they did with CE1, ran great on even slow systems. |
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 16:33 Post subject: |
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Another Second life..
Second life with pretty pretty graphics thou. The furry sex and other freaky perversions will look almost real. Can't wait!
People don't have anything better to do? Like, real life?
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 19:58 Post subject: |
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| Mumblingidiot wrote: | Another Second life..
Second life with pretty pretty graphics thou. The furry sex and other freaky perversions will look almost real. Can't wait!
People don't have anything better to do? Like, real life? |
It's probably to escape from reality and do things you normally can't in real life? Just as in other games you play, no consequences in real- life from fucking around in a game...
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 20:01 Post subject: |
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its just a reagular mmo they added the "virtual life" bit to atract attention.
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WaldoJ
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It's like sims online only w/ better tit graphics 
| Sin317 wrote: | | I win, you lose. Or Go fuck yourself. |
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 21:35 Post subject: |
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Perverts! I tell mommy now!
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 21:57 Post subject: |
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| KeyserSoeze wrote: | Eh come back when some one have intvented that virtual reality thing they have in star trek, that might be worth wasting time on  |
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Mar 2007 23:05 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | ya that's what I meant. I'm sure people didn't want to buy into the engine as Crytek was new back then. Now that they have the respect of alot of the gaming community I'm sure dev's who want an engine will know to get CE2 |
It is because Cryengine/2 is not a middleware solution.  |
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No, it ain't. Cryengine is on the line with Doom3engine and Source, as much as they want to claim shit, they are not middleware solutions. They were made with one specific game in mind, and only that. But yes, it so happens that non-middleware solution engines get licensed now and then (Doom3engine for Q4, Prey and ETQW, Cryengine2 for this shit, etc) - but it is very far away from the scale that middleware engines sell on, like the Unreal-Engines.
I have no problem whatsoever that almost all of the gaming world has licensed UE3, I think it's a brilliant move - and it doesn't mean that games will look the same, on the contrary.
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Mar 2007 19:01 Post subject: |
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| Parallax_ wrote: | No, it ain't. Cryengine is on the line with Doom3engine and Source, as much as they want to claim shit, they are not middleware solutions. They were made with one specific game in mind, and only that. But yes, it so happens that non-middleware solution engines get licensed now and then (Doom3engine for Q4, Prey and ETQW, Cryengine2 for this shit, etc) - but it is very far away from the scale that middleware engines sell on, like the Unreal-Engines.
I have no problem whatsoever that almost all of the gaming world has licensed UE3, I think it's a brilliant move - and it doesn't mean that games will look the same, on the contrary. |
Your arguments make sense but you claim cryengine 2 was made only with 1 game in mind, which I don't tihnk is quite true. Maybe true for CE1, but CE2 was afaik especially developed to be sold to other teams. I remember them claiming in interviews that they wanted to establish cryengine 2 as a new competitor to game engines like unreal 3. The fact that crytek is now making extreme promotion for cryengine 2, they even opened a new developing studio just for working on cryengine2 based developing products (the engine is also being promoted for architectural modelling etc). They have a team working on PS3 versions of CE2 developing kits. Crysis is only going to come out on PC, they said that multiple times. EA has announced to use cryengine 2 for other EA games as well. Speaks a lot for them aiming CE2 as a middleware solution 
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Mar 2007 19:06 Post subject: |
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1) EA isnt going to be able to shit with that engine just as they can't with any engine.
2) In one of their interviews they said they planned on brining crysis to PS3 as well. Did they change that?
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| saddamhussein wrote: | | Your arguments make sense but you claim cryengine 2 was made only with 1 game in mind, which I don't tihnk is quite true. |
Hmm, maybe I should have rephrased myself; in-house/in-company.
| Quote: | | EA has announced to use cryengine 2 for other EA games as well |
Not to be blunt, but where? Just because they bought up Crytek, doesn't mean they automatically own all the rights to Cryengine2. |
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Shit man, I must have amnesia. I posted that myself in the C&C topic. 
But I must agree with SpykeZ here, I am very sceptical about what EA can do with the engine.
| SpykeZ wrote: | | 1) EA isnt going to be able to shit with that engine just as they can't with any engine. |
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Mar 2007 17:14 Post subject: |
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| saddamhussein wrote: | Well, they can give the engine to a good dev studio, theres no reason why they shouldn't be able to handle that engine  Of course EA sucks as a publisher, but that doesn't mean they got no good developing studios. If that cc renegade 2 thing is true I'm positive that a good studio will get the job... |
im not trying to be the asshole of the thread but EA lucked out on C&C 3. I'd like to know the last decent game EA put out before cnc that doesn't include the BF series which was a 50/50 success rate. Fact is they suck on FPS more than anything. So im not entirely sure why anyone would hope Renegade 2 comes out with EA on it. It was successful the first time cause...thats right...EA wasn't as piece of shit as they are now. They got the funds to do great things, just not the devotion and brains to complete the task. This is all entirely my opinion so of course feel free to disagree. I do however give EA mad props on C&C3, I didn't think they had it in them to do it. |
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