Take a look at what's happened with the Quake 1 and 2 engines, which are available under both GPL and commercial licenses.
The GPL versions have had significant updates made to the engines, but no original content has been released. The coders and artists have done amazing work making Quake 1 look as good as Quake 3. But they're not creating any new games, just revising what Id has already done.
The system requirements for playing Doom 3 are fairly steep. I wouldn't be surprised if the level and model editors require similar amounts of resources. That's also going to reduce interest in the Doom 3 engine.
Also, take a look at the mod communities. Even without GPL'd game engines they produce a ton of content -- some high quality and innovative, some not.
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Posted by: siege72 on August 04, 2004 08:31 PMThe GPL versions have had significant updates made to the engines, but no original content has been released. The coders and artists have done amazing work making Quake 1 look as good as Quake 3. But they're not creating any new games, just revising what Id has already done.
The system requirements for playing Doom 3 are fairly steep. I wouldn't be surprised if the level and model editors require similar amounts of resources. That's also going to reduce interest in the Doom 3 engine.
Also, take a look at the mod communities. Even without GPL'd game engines they produce a ton of content -- some high quality and innovative, some not.
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