ikanreed

This brings to mind a guest lecture I attended in college given by a then vice president of epic games, although I can't remember his name. The subject of his talk wasn't the programming or development of games, but more related to bean counting. The jist of it went that the unreal Engine was developed as a means of removing programmers from game development work as much as possible, so that those who licensed it(Epic's main source of revenue) would be able to primarily use artist

The only good thing I can say about this news, is that in every thread I've read lambasting the idea, someone has mentioned how elemental is an upcoming game with some potential in the Turn based strategy arena. Everything else about this announcement is depressing. Taking a game known for its excellent mechanics and tone, and throwing those things out the window in order to cash in on the parts that are incidental at best , like the enemies, and maybe weapon