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by asdff 17 days ago
I'm guessing its cheaper to iterate the old engine like this than to try and rebuild a new one from scratch one day, then move everyone onto that new engine and have them be as familiar as they were with the old one made of a couple decades of mostly duct tape it sounds like now.
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Exactly! Armchair enthusiasts and gamers and such will talk about some game release and its "new engine" but throwing away the entire codebase is rarely a sensible choice financially speaking.