Re:dev time (Score 1)

Why not an engine that comes with a Sears-catalog (or Home Depot, or whatever) of pregenerated stuff that you can edit generally (changing color, length, whatever) and then plop into your world? Coffee cup? Pick that hefty one. Make it black. Glossy.

What you don't realize is that commercial game developers are not overly interested in seeing lots of high-quality content released for free on the net. Community-driven game mods are usually seen as some "cute extra" which may keep players toying around with a specific game for another few hours but is in no way real competition to any titles developed by professionals.

On the other hand, if hobby developers really had access to a vast amount of very detailed 3D graphics and could produce new professionally looking content in amazingly short periods of time, who would still pay for commercial 3D games that took 2 years to create and cost millions of dollars?

- A. Siegel