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Maybe so, but some leadership is more terrible than others. In the five or so years that Amazon has been seriously trying to do AAA games they've cancelled four of them, launched a live service game only to put it back into closed beta when it flopped and then killed it outright, and now have six active projects in varying degrees of development hell with no release windows. The few games they have managed to actually ship are mid at best.

They also spent god knows how much money on a no-strings-attached CryEngine license to use as a basis of their own in-house fork, which was such a flop internally that they ended up just open sourcing it to zero fanfare. I don't think anyone is using it, even for free.




It looks like they paid between 50 and 70 million. Not much for a company like Amazon. But yes, they totally failed in this area.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/what-is-the-best-game-engine-i...


Star Citizen is still using it.


Not really, it's just a heavily modified version of CryEngine




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