Man, you are making me laugh today. You are asking about evidence that Zenimax Online lied and you go an believe the lie they spouted in 2012 about it.
I don't need to prove ESO use the Hero Engine, it does that very well its own with its Powered by the Hero Engine start up splash screen.
You still have the habit of laughing at people when they demonstrate how you don't really think before making claims about things you have no way of knowing. Just like you did with DOS 2 and claiming to understand how everything will work, including things like haste.
Once again, you misunderstand.
I don't actually believe anything in relation to this - because I have no way of knowing and the details are irrelevant, considering the actual games in question. I'm saying there's no evidence they've made ESO using the HeroEngine except as a "whiteboard" as Firor explains - and you've utterly failed to provide any evidence.
You're just calling them liars because YOU believe things based on little to no evidence.
They could be using a tiny fraction of the codebase - and they'd be obligated to have that message because of trademark laws. An engine isn't a complete game - and when you use it to prototype features, it doesn't mean you're using a complete version of the engine as a foundation for the entire game. They could easily be using bits and pieces of it.
Much like SWtOR used an early and incomplete version of HeroEngine to build their own custom engine, only the end result is terrible.
Essentially, both games use custom engines BASED on HeroEngine - which is the only way to build games as complex as MMOs if you're going to use any existing engine as a starting point.
You and I can never know how much of the original code they're actually using - so making claims that they've "lied" and refusing to accept their very clear explanation because you feel like it, is not a very impressive way to behave, if you ask me. It makes you look biased.
If you had the slightest understanding of how engines work, you would never - ever - claim that ESO and SWtOR were using the same engine, unless you were blind. It's painfully obvious that ESO is using a different rendering engine, for instance - most likely their own custom renderer. If I had to venture a guess, SWtOR does NOT use a custom renderer - as the performance is abysmal and clearly the amount of animations involved is just impractical for what they're trying to do with them. That's why the game bogs down completely during PvP combat involving more than a handful of players.
They might have started off with something similar, but that's completely irrelevant - and has nothing to do with what I said.
