So I wanted to know, in these five years, since Star Citizen was announced, there's a whole lot that has happened- for instance, CryEngine- the game was originally announced for CryEngine 3, and at this point, I think you guys are on Amazon Lumberyard, and there has been all this movement. What I wanted to know was, these changes that have happened in the gaming industry in all this time, how have they influenced the development of the game?asked by Pramath

That's a good question. With the switch from CryEngine to Lumberyard – Chris made a great statement about this last year, and that's exactly correct – LumberYard, and what we are working on, we were working on the same versions of CryEngine. And naturally, what makes sense for what Amazon is doing matches what we want to do for Star Citizen. So we want to head down that path- that larger path they are investing in, with larger networking, AWS, support for online gaming, and that matches with our timelines much better.

But has it caused an influence? I mean, we all influence each other. Game development, entertainment, is very influential. What's the best way to entertain someone within our genres is interesting to all of us, so naturally we all watch each other, we all help each other, we generally try to help each other. There's some healthy competition, but usually we just want to make a better game and experience, not just for our community, but also for ourselves. I mean, we enjoy playing these games as well. So we want to have the most fun and immersive experience as well.