[ut3] ut3 officially dead

[robin van ee]

As any programmer would know, porting an engine is hard but writing
something cross platform is easy.
Epic shouldn't have left one guy to do the porting, it should've been cross
platform from the ground up.

2010/12/19 Keith Z-G <keithzg at gmail.com>

> Seriously, Ryan already probably got in trouble for telling us as much
> as he did awhile back; you really think that a company whose sole
> notable asset is a game engine is NOT going to have an independent
> contractor working on fundamental-level code under an NDA? I wish I
> lived in that kind of world, where corporations were so open and
> reasonable :P
>
> Ryan, in the past, has been a pretty blunt and honest person, and
> successfully ported earlier iterations of this very engine; I don't
> see why he'd both fail AND from his own free will refuse to say
> anything this time around.  Considering there have been absolutely no
> releases of any UE3 games for a PC platform other than Windows
> (neither OSX nor Linux releases) despite the technology itself
> obviously being portable (if you can run it on iOS and the PS3, I mean
> seriously now...) there's obviously something else going on here, and
> the strongly-made suggestion that it's some middleware that the owner
> is unwilling to license to a non-Microsoft PC platform seems to fit
> the facts better than any other hypothesis.
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Damian Kaczmarek <rush at rushbase.net>
> wrote:
> > Oh ffs don't treat Ryan like a holy cow. He has screwed up and treated
> > all of us like shit and we have the right to call him up on that.
> > Ryan, how does it feel to be a liar and a scam? How does it feel to
> > make to many promises thinking you can fulfill all of them? Everyone
> > is a human and makes mistakes but apology is definetely sought here.
> >
> > And to all (including Ryan), have a good christmas time and/or happy
> > holidays. To think I received my UT3 one christmas (how long ago??)
> > and it still lays unpackaged.
> > Cheers to all. :)
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