[SUGGESTIONS] Game Engine on Store Page : Steam

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Could we see what Game Engine is being used for each game on the Store Page?

In 2012, Tencent paid 330 million for a 40% stake in Epic Games through KKR.

With that much money going into game engines, one should know which game engine one's game is being made on.

E.g.
Developer : Bioware
Publisher : EA
Game Engine : Frostbyte Engine

[Start_Running]

That's not really any helpful info for the consumer.
I mean you can have vastly different games all using the same engine. An engine is like saying what language a book is written in at this point.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

That's not really any helpful info for the consumer.
I mean you can have vastly different games all using the same engine. An engine is like saying what language a book is written in at this point.

No, it will give you a chart that lets you see with game engine correlates with the top 100 games on Steam.

You might as well say the top 100 games on Steam is useless data.

[ONe_mOMENT]

Engines don't make the game. And who owns the engine also doesn't effect the game.

An engine is a tool set. Nothing more.

Also No bioware game on steam uses frostbite. Me 1+2 are unreal and Dragon age was eclipse.

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Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

No, it will give you a chart that lets you see with game engine correlates with the top 100 games on Steam.

You might as well say the top 100 games on Steam is useless data.

Top 100 gives consumers a "what's popular with players"
Engine isn't really relevant to the consumer. And any relevant data Devs need to decide on an engine would be available from said engine developers.

[Gwarsbane]

The type of engine the game uses means nothing to at my guess 99.9999% of the people who play games on steam because most of them don't even know what a game engine is.

I know what a game engine is and generally I don't care what engine a game uses as long as I enjoy the game. Yes some are better than others, but I've seen some games built on a good engine and the game sucks.

So ya there is no need for this. If you really really want to know, use google. You might be able to find out.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by ONe_mOMENT:

Engines don't make the game. And who owns the engine also doesn't effect the game.

An engine is a tool set. Nothing more.

Also No bioware game on steam uses frostbite. Me 1+2 are unreal and Dragon age was eclipse.

Edit

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

No, it will give you a chart that lets you see with game engine correlates with the top 100 games on Steam.

You might as well say the top 100 games on Steam is useless data.

Top 100 gives consumers a "what's popular with players"
Engine isn't really relevant to the consumer. And any relevant data Devs need to decide on an engine would be available from said engine developers.

Yes, but each game uses a different toolset.

Bioware game on Steam maybe but Anthem is different.

Anyway, that was just an example.

You could use REDEngine2 for Witcher 2.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

The type of engine the game uses means nothing to at my guess 99.9999% of the people who play games on steam because most of them don't even know what a game engine is.

I know what a game engine is and generally I don't care what engine a game uses as long as I enjoy the game. Yes some are better than others, but I've seen some games built on a good engine and the game sucks.

So ya there is no need for this. If you really really want to know, use google. You might be able to find out.

Rightt... When you see a dramatic rise in the number of games made with Unity and fewer games made with Unreal... Is that useful data?

Remember, Epic Games is challenging Steam with the Epic Games Shop.

Would Steam want to note down potential rivals?

Or would they prefer to stick their head in the ground?

[suwako]

Love this idea

[ONe_mOMENT]

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

The type of engine the game uses means nothing to at my guess 99.9999% of the people who play games on steam because most of them don't even know what a game engine is.

I know what a game engine is and generally I don't care what engine a game uses as long as I enjoy the game. Yes some are better than others, but I've seen some games built on a good engine and the game sucks.

So ya there is no need for this. If you really really want to know, use google. You might be able to find out.

Rightt... When you see a dramatic rise in the number of games made with Unity and fewer games made with Unreal... Is that useful data?

Remember, Epic Games is challenging Steam with the Epic Games Shop.

Would Steam want to note down potential rivals?

Or would they prefer to stick their head in the ground?

And it comes out. Your looking to paint developers as targets. Nothing more.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by ONe_mOMENT:

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Rightt... When you see a dramatic rise in the number of games made with Unity and fewer games made with Unreal... Is that useful data?

Remember, Epic Games is challenging Steam with the Epic Games Shop.

Would Steam want to note down potential rivals?

Or would they prefer to stick their head in the ground?

And it comes out. Your looking to paint developers as targets. Nothing more.

Could you kindly explain "Your looking to paint developers as targets."?

I need more details into how your "there-was-no-moon-landing" conspiracy theory works.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Why?
What would you do with such information?
How would it be relevant to the average user?
Why would it matter if game A uses engine X or engine Z?

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by ONe_mOMENT:

Engines don't make the game. And who owns the engine also doesn't effect the game.

An engine is a tool set. Nothing more.

Exactly. granted some engines lend themselves to certain types of games better than others. and then you have engines like Unity that are all over the place.

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

The type of engine the game uses means nothing to at my guess 99.9999% of the people who play games on steam because most of them don't even know what a game engine is.

I know what a game engine is and generally I don't care what engine a game uses as long as I enjoy the game. Yes some are better than others, but I've seen some games built on a good engine and the game sucks.

So ya there is no need for this. If you really really want to know, use google. You might be able to find out.

Rightt... When you see a dramatic rise in the number of games made with Unity and fewer games made with Unreal... Is that useful data?

Not unless you're the one marketing the engines in question.

Remember, Epic Games is challenging Steam with the Epic Games Shop.

Would Steam want to note down potential rivals?

Or would they prefer to stick their head in the ground?

And what does that have to do with anything?
Also Valve probably does keep track of that sort of info since they market their source engine. Simple truth is, is that its of no value to us as consumers. And best it can tell us what sort of game it is on the broadest level but you know.. screen shots do that and more.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Rightt... When you see a dramatic rise in the number of games made with Unity and fewer games made with Unreal... Is that useful data?

Again to the vast majority of people, they don't care. To me, I don't care as long as the game is fun. I've seen good games with bad engines and bad games with good engines.

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Remember, Epic Games is challenging Steam with the Epic Games Shop.

And your point with this is what? It has nothing to do with your topic. Again the majority of people don't care what game engine a game uses it just doesn't matter to them.

People will goto the store where a game they are interested in is being sold for the cheapest price when they are ready to buy.

99.99999999 of the people will not say "oh well I'm not going to buy that game because its on X game engine". People don't care about the game engine. They will buy it because it looks good, it plays good, their friends are playing it, its at a price they are willing to spend on it.

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Would Steam want to note down potential rivals?

Or would they prefer to stick their head in the ground?

Yet again has nothing to do with your topic. The majority of people don't care what game engine a game uses. You just can't seem to accept that. Once you understand that the majority of people just don't care about the game engine the sooner you will realize that this is something pointless to require on steam store pages.

If the developers felt that the public wanted to know this info, they have more than enough ability to include that info on the stores page on their own.

If Valve wants to know what game engines games on Epic store are using, all they have to do is google the name of the game. But the game engine doesn't matter to Valve, it doesn't even matter to the store its being sold on.

The only people a game engine actually matters to, are the developers\publishers of the game. No one else actually needs to know, and the vast majority of people don't care to know. The ones who want to know, can google.

[suwako]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Why?
What would you do with such information?
How would it be relevant to the average user?
Why would it matter if game A uses engine X or engine Z?

It's actually a fun discussion within the gaming community and game dev community.
Useful, yeah sometimes if you're into modding or want to make a game like it. It's nice to think about.

Believe it or not, we like talking about what game engines are used in games.

Such a hard concept to grasp I know but hang in there buddy


edit: Always love the SPUF contrarians, usual suspects as always

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by frog:

It's actually a fun discussion within the gaming community and game dev community.
Useful, yeah sometimes if you're into modding or want to make a game like it. It's nice to think about.

Believe it or not, we like talking about what game engines are used in games.

And the information is available on the game's Wikipedia page. Nothing you said shows it to be worth adding to a listing of a game's engine on a store page.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by frog:

It's actually a fun discussion within the gaming community and game dev community.
Useful, yeah sometimes if you're into modding or want to make a game like it. It's nice to think about.

Believe it or not, we like talking about what game engines are used in games.

And the information is available on the game's Wikipedia page. Nothing you said shows it to be worth adding to a listing of a game's engine on a store page.

Heck you'll often see it in the game's trailer.