Why do game companies build their own game engines?

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Dunno. 1mln is not that much. It might be enough to hire 5 or 6 software enegineers/programmers for a year. Maybe.

Of course we are talking about creating AAA+ grade engine like UE4, CE3, Anvil, Dunia.

Internal tools like Frostbite or Anvil get tracktion inside big publishers/developers because there is much shared source and exntension (look how Bioware repurposed Frosbite 3 for RPGs, and now that work is available for everyone inside EA).

Now imagine UE4 in few years when people really start add features to engine via source access. Anything from rendering to new tools. Or in forms of plugins, so they can drop maintenance burden on Epic (;.

Crowd sourced development. I say, this is future (;.

I’m moving to wherever you are, even in the higher paid places within Europe you could hire 15 - 20 developers for a million a year. When I worked in AAA engine dev I got paid a fair amount, but nothing spectacular… I know exactly what they did with FB ;)…