Industry vet Monty Sharma and Gary Gannon talked about this exact topic on GameBreakerTV, starting at 9:04.
http://www.gamebreaker.tv/video-game-shows/did-the-hero-engine-kill-swtor/
Originally posted by Quizzical Blaming all that ails SWTOR on the Hero Engine is pure ignorance.
Let's start by asking what the point of a game engine is, anyway. Let's suppose that you want to make a game. One option is to make your own game en…