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Why Don’t Game Developers RE-USE Open Worlds?

February 21, 2017 by Dennis Patrick

Gameranx explores why game developers often create new open worlds for sequels instead of reusing old ones. Is it laziness or practical game development?

Open world video games are popular there’s no getting around that fact. Each year we get a slew of great open world video game titles with developers constantly aiming to make their game world bigger, better, and denser than their competitors.

Making these video game titles requires a big budget and countless development hours so it had us guessing as to why developers don’t re-use these environments. Today we go over some of these reasons in our latest video upload.

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