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It is still unattractive for indie devs. You risk a huge hit in your revenue when you accidentally hit the the limit. You can’t stop selling games to not hit it.

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deleted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s a cycle.

Indie devs will find / build new platform

The platform will gain traction

It’ll grow exponentially

It’ll reach a point where platform devs will be greedy or itll be taken over by big corps.

Rinse and repeat.
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- Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Gdot is FOSS engine. This means it will most probably never pull shit like that and even if everybody is allowed to fork it before a bad change and continue with that
  
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  - deleted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    While I totally agree with what you said, big corps would work hard to limit FOSS.
    
    Googles web integrity API is an example of what might happen.
    
    Invidia could pull shit like this processing only “trusted” code from trusted source like steam which might not consider FOSS as trusted.
    
    Don’t get me wrong. I use Linux and I prefer FOSS over paid software.
    
    But recently the gate seems to getting closed slowly. Corps devoting their resources to lobby against FOSS.
    
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    elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Corps devoting their resources to lobby against FOSS.
    
    That has been a decades long battle. They’ll never win the war.
    
    Microsoft was 100% against Linux 15 years ago. Now there is a Linux subsystem sitting next to the core of the OS.
    
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    Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    However you still can brew your own soup if there is a foss Version of a program out there.
    
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  - AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think Godot will eventually replace Unity. They’ve definitely given us enough reason to never touch Unity again, and if you already know Unity, Godot isn’t that hard to switch to.
    
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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The huge hit of a maximum of 2.5% of your future revenue. Unreal takes 5% in the same situation, for comparison.

The fee itself is perfectly reasonable, Unity just completely fucked up implementing it trying to force it on games already released or in development by altering the agreements solo and stirring up a well deserved shitshow for it.

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