Interview with Simutronics CEO David Whatley

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Well, 6 digit license fees according to the interview, and no indie license so I guess this puts a plug on the smaller studios and solo developers.

I've been working on my own mmo solo, similar to what Love's author is trying to accomplish, but more traditional mmo style. HeroEngine would cut my time to make this in half. Ive started this a year ago, and tis probably gonna take me 6 more years if not more to write this entirely. Ill probably get help along the way,but a very huge chunk of it will be solo.

So while I understand they need to focus on the big names and such, some of the greatest games come out of smaller studios and indie developers. So excluding them is, in my opinion, a bad choice. Hopefully HeroEngine Lite is really in their plans. Some good examples were Blizzard and Mythic. Both started out small, but with great ideas, now they are often talked about names, be it good or bad. Maybe I'll just use Love's Verse game building tools that he released. Then again, I plan to make my mmo truely cross platform, including full Linux support. So I might just have to write my own HeroEngine.

Here's to hopefully seeing my MMO on here someday :P.

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I don't know man, after a year or two on the market I think the smaller dev companies will have a shot at it. A ton of products when they first come out are expensive as hell and then the price starts to decline over time.

The engine itself on paper sounds great, but I wanna see how it holds up to 3 to 5 thousands players running around does to it.. I think ToR is the only company going to be able to put that to the test as a first for the engine.

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Yulian, I hear what you are saying about Simutronics. They must surmise that I am an Indi as they have not gotten back to me except for the first inititial automatic email. To pass by the Indi's or solos out there I think is a big mistake. There are just too many small guys out there that have great ideas. I like to think I'm one of them and I've been doing everything I can to get funding. Even if they don't want crap being made with their engine they should at least have some kind of standards system in place so that Indi's and solos CAN use it. Honestly, I wouldn't want crap to be made with my engine if I were them and I truly can understand that. However, when they don't even bother to reply to me with one sentence saying 'no, we don't think you'll be a good fit' then they don't deserve having the Indi's business. Let the little guy make his millions with some other company or engine.

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