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Theres no way you'd be lookin at a million for Source. UE3 would probably be
around 650k-ish for a 'next-gen' engine (probably a little less now that
we've seen engines like CryEngine 2), so ~250-350k would be a reasonable
estimate for Source IMO

On 7/20/06, Charles Solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> In my 100% honest opinion, no engine is worth close to 1 mil, and
> definently
> not the source engine.  Why big mags are always saying 'tremendous source
> engine' is beyond me.  I played Prey at wsvg and that game has the coolest
> gravity system I have ever seen.  Then you have Fear, doom, quake.
> In my opinion the source engine is just havok, then the rest is hard coded
> to leave modders a lot of greef.
> What does havok go for these days anyway.  I heard that source code that
> was
> 'hacked' from valve actually had a lot of those professional 3rd party
> application in there.  I looked for an copy when I first heard about it,
> unfortunetly after hl2 was released I deleted the rar I got.  The cd is
> lieing around here somewhere, wonder is the havok engine is worth cleaning
> my room...  nah.
>
> On 7/20/06, Thomas Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Thanks for all your estimates, which are certainly helpful. The
> higher-ups
> > are
> > going to inquire with Valve directly to find out for sure. But if it's
> > even
> > anywhere near that number I don't think they'll want to shell that
> out...
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > --- Teddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I hear it's about five times that much. Better start saving!
> > >
> > > On 7/20/06, Skillet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > It probably depends on what kind of project you're doing, but
> $200,000
> > > would
> > > > be a reasonable estimate.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thomas
> >
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