Gisteren was er al nieuws over het beleid van Microsoft omtrent User Created Content en nu reageert Mark Rein, VP bij Epic, op Microsoft’s nieuwe kijk op dit onderwerp. Tevens ging hij nog even in op de negatieve reacties op zijn quote dat Unreal Tournament III niet op een normale DVD zou passen:
- “We will work with Microsoft to find a way to support them. We just don’t have all the answers today and it isn’t our chief priority at this very moment because we already have our hands completely full shipping UT3 on PC and PS3 as well as shipping Gears of War on PC, … When we get those out of the way, and get a little time to spend with our friends and families, then we’ll get back on this issue and figure it out.”
“The simple facts state that the optical disc on the PS3 holds more data than the optical disc on the 360. If we exceed size of the 360s optical disc then we’ll have to find alternative ways to get the content to 360 users such as making it downloadable. Adding a second DVD to a game like UT3 would be a challenge because when playing online you might not know exactly what map you’re going to be playing next and we have to be able to accommodate users of the core system.”
Hoe Epic het uiteindelijk zal gaan oplossen, is nog onbekend, maar we zullen er vast nog wel meer over horen.