You remember of course the tough economic situation for Crysis studio Crytek in 2014. The developer went on his knees, was facing bankruptcy and sold away licenses / productions Homefront, among others. Now it turns out that it was the web giant Amazon that saved the studio from bankruptcy. Apparently they bought loose all of the rights to the game engine CryEngine for approximately SEK 500 million, in order to be able to stop in large parts of the technology in its own gaming tool Lumberyard (which we reported the day before yesterday).
Lumberyard is free to download and it does not even licensed money to release some great goalkeeping developed with Lumberyard, which is absolutely insane generous, of course. Amazon hopes instead that those who utilize their game engine will use its web services instead, thereby generating profit. Amazon releases proprietary game engine, free.
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