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The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what their motive is.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Kind of like Google funding Mozilla.