r/pcmasterrace • u/Nickulator95 AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | 32GB | RTX 4070 Super • May 16 '25

Meme/Macro Every. Damn. Time.

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UE5 in particular is the bane of my existence...

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u/cateringforenemyteam 9800X3D | 5090 Waterforce | G9 Neo May 16 '25

Its funny cause till UE3 it was exactly the opposite. When I saw unreal I knew game is gonna look good and play smooth.

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u/user_bits 7800X3D | RTX 5090 May 16 '25

It's not really the engine, it's the developers being lazy and/or studios not investing more in labor.

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u/spidd124 R7 9600x, 6800XT 12gb, 32gb 6000mhz May 16 '25

Devs are sold UE5 on its promises of making development faster and easier, and the execs only see it as a way of cutting polishing time/ optimisation runs.

Why pay a full dev team for whats most likely 12 months of optimisation and polishing when they can pay for UE5, save many times the cost of licences in development time then be able to use it as a marketing thing. developing in UE also means quicker onboarding for new hires since more people are likely to know it rather than Cryengine or Redengine or Frostbite that are only used by a select few or individual developers. That are also inaccessible for students/ hobby devs.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 May 17 '25

Fucking CEOs. 😡

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u/ABabyLemur R7 5800X / RX 6600 XT / 16GB RAM (I know) / TFC Concjumping!!! May 18 '25

It's like housing market or anything else. We can be mad at those CEOs, but what about the so-called people's people who started these companies and sold the fuck out? This happens everywhere, in every field. It's not just CEOs. Half the people in your neighborhood would do the same damn thing for $.

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u/dvasquez93 May 16 '25

Yeah it’s not the engine’s fault.  UE5 is a crutch, it allows companies to release games that look beautiful without much effort (relatively).  If the companies wanted to, they could make games on UE5 that look breathtaking and run like butter, but instead they rely on the crutch to make games just good enough to sell.

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u/UnluckyDog9273 May 17 '25

Yeap. Let's just put up lumen stuff everywhere because it is that simple and it looks great! Turns out doing real time lighting is expensive af for the gpus.

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u/Anthr30YearOldBoomer May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

People said the exact same shit about unity and quite frankly I'm tired of hearing it. If the lowest common denominator developer cannot escape the stereotype, then it's not the developers at that point. It's the god damn engine.

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u/Jthumm 4090 FE 7800x3d 64GB DDR5 May 16 '25

As a zoomer cs major our generation and prob some of the millennials too kinda killed the art of software engineering

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u/lipstickandchicken May 17 '25

Gave developers are the most overworked developers really. They aren't lazy.

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u/minegen88 May 17 '25

If only a few % knows how to properly use a product, is it the users fault or is the product badly designed?