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One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

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[–] RockHornet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The biggest thing about Epic is that it is NOT a publicly traded company.

It doesn't mean that it's not subject to the "Infinite Growth Disease" but look at their biggest investor: Sony and Tencent.

Both Game companies that SHOULD be more interested in having access to a good game engine than to make every dollar's possible.