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Originally Posted by thesmoothcriminal
I didnt read most of that but i think CJ does or used to awhile ago. Didnt hear anyone buying a license
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True, the website does list a licensing option in their services tab on their site. (
http://www.cyberjoueurs.com)
But there is no price listed and who knows that they are asking... Plus I'm not really sure what this license entitles the buyer.... They haven't updated this page in years and I'm assuming nobody has licensed Graal.
I'm hoping for something more like Torque or DX Studio or something like that where there is actually an indie version and an affordable pro version (for a few thousand dollars or something) Also for them to have support for the engine and something more than some page that sort of hints at a license of some sort.
Offline mode would be nice but I'd be perfectly fine with online mode being the only option... It's incredibly hard to get a game engine to actually work online and allow players to connect to the server and play on it without having to know advanced programming. Graal already has it covered and I think it could do well if it just licensed the engine instead of hosting servers... It wouldn't even need to pay for servers anymore because that would be the developer's job.
Once you buy the Graal engine you don't have to affiliate it with Graal or cyberjouers and you could change everything about it to make it seem like you're own game.
Obviously this really couldn't happen as long as Graal is trying to profit from the game side... as people could just buy the Graal engine, make a clone of Graal and try to steal away Graal's playerbase.
The only reason I suggested this engine idea is because Graal isn't exactly at the top of it's game anymore, and it can't even be considered an MMO. But it sure could make a decent game engine for others to create their own games.