- cross-posted to:
- gaming@lemmy.zip
- hackernews@derp.foo
- technews@radiation.party
The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.
you’ve never worked in game dev if you think swapping out your game engine is an even remotely trivial task. you’re talking about actual years worth of work to get done. This isn’t like throwing out some shitty npm package or changing javascript frameworks. that is the reason so many developers view these changes as an existential threat, because switching engines years into development of a new game simply isn’t an option.