Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that?
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  • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
    163·
    2 years ago

    I have been a developer professionally and exclusively using Unity for 17 years. Yesterday, I installed Unreal Engine. I’m doing as many tutorials as I can this weekend.

    I have no faith now that there will be enough studios willing to use Unity to sustain a career based on it.

    • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      732·
      2 years ago

      Godot is in terrific shape should you not wish to give any of your revenue away. Of course I wouldn’t use Godot for a project that requires advanced rendering features or high graphical fidelity.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        Godot is also free software; if they tried to do something like Unity then 3rd parties can remove the offending code and even continue development without the them. Unreal is only source available, you ultimately could have the same issue with Unreal in the future.

        • dukk@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          I don’t mean to be pedantic, but I think you meant Godot is open source. Yeah, I agree.

          • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Open source is the term the Godot website uses to refer to the engine. I’m using the term free software as I think about Unity being proprietary in terms of denying user freedom rather than weighing it up as a business decision.

      • English Mobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Unreal has explicit licensing terms that forbid them from doing this. Terms which people are going to pay very close attention to.

        Not to mention that Epic gets their money from Fortnite, not necessarily the engine. They have no reason to squander their goodwill like that.

        On top of that - if you want to release on a console, you need to write all the console-specific code yourself. This is quite a lot of work, especially for an indie developer.

        Godot is a great start, but it’s got a long way to go before it’s a commercial-ready engine.