[ut3] Epic Demonstrates Unreal Engine 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone 3GS

[Keith Zubot-Gephart]

Just watch.  Epic will start to port it to Maemo or Android and then go "oh 
wait!  Crap!  That's Linux!  Cancel that, then; Windows Mobile it is."

It's getting kindof absurd at this point.  They even went so far as to re-
write the editor GUI using wxWidgets, but to date there is still no sign of a 
Linux or OSX port of any of the games, much less the editor.  Yet now they 
have a version for the iPhone OS, which is a vague derivative of OSX running 
on ARM?

Or to sum up, despite allegedly developing UE3 as cross-platform, they can't 
manage to port it to Linux or OSX on PCs (x86) despite having ported it from 
Windows (x86) to PS3 (PPC), Xbox360 (PPC) and now the iPhone (ARM). 

Do they seriously want us to believe that there's an actual technical reason 
preventing UT3 or the current UDK from being released on Linux or OSX?  It's 
obvious that either:
(a) they really, really don't care, 
(b) there's legal issues that they're too sissy to admit, or 
(c) a combination of both.  

I suspect (c) since (b) has seemed to be Epic's attitude in their few public 
responses to queries yet it doesn't seem like indifference would be enough to 
stop them from doing the logical thinking that a small amount of effort might 
end in a decent number of sales in terms of Linux and OSX.  Add what Ryan 
himself has hinted at, and it's pretty clear that there's some legal hurdle 
with middleware that Epic has stupidly gotten themselves into (did anyone ever 
compare the initial server release for the demo to the full one?) and because 
they'd rather create for closed ecosystems they only scarcely care about 
Windows; OSX is a smaller market than Linux and Linux is too open for their 
current business model, so . . . 

. . . well, I'm getting into paranoid territory here.  But it's really just 
that I'm quite sad.  I mean, it was way back in 2003 that I joined the 
BeyondUnreal forums, and that itself was after years of lurking there and at 
its predecessors.  I was always a huge Unreal fan, starting from the first 
game and onto the latter games and the engine itself, spending hours and hours 
just toying around with the editors and UnrealScript, and . . . well, 
somewhere along the line Epic stopped being the company my past-times were so 
involved with.  They've probably been drifting away for awhile, I suppose, but 
. . . sigh.  I just cannot respect them anymore.

On Thursday 24 December 2009 04:12:34 Zato-2 wrote:
> Link to the article:
> http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3695
> 
> >And it’s not just about iPhone support. Mark told me that as soon as CES
> 
> we’ll see Unreal Engine 3 on
> 
> >another mobile platform entirely. More announcements will happen
> > throughout
> 
> 2010.
> 
> >This isn’t a platform specific thing, it’s about bringing Unreal Engine 3
> 
> to the entire portable market.
> 
> Now Epic is making engines for money, not games (.
>