Comment on The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN

• AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Epic games funds a lot of open source game projects, they’ve funded blender and Godot multiple times.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder what their motive is.

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    • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The more game developers there are, the more potential talent they have. The more game developers there are, the more games there are to sell.

      They also understand that Unreal isn’t super accessible for beginners.

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Could also be to prevent a potential antitrust lawsuit, since they have a de facto monopoly on AAA game engines.

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