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Ryuu96 said:

EpicRandy said:

Some devs thought about the Unity move 

"I don't even care if they walk this back or try to walk this back and say "oh well you know we'll tackle this another time". Well well take the L because that's exactly it, they'll tackle it another time and once you're locked into their ecosystem you basically have to bend the knee to this that you've got no choice"

This echoes the sentiment I have, it does not matter now even if Unity reverses course, the fact they've shown the possibility and willingness to do such is enough. Unity is dead as long as Riccitiello remains CEO. 

Must be horrible right now to be someone working for Unity and having your career prospects literally burned to the ground by the whims of greedy idiots.

The longer it goes on as well, the more developers will have begun the process of switching over and then they aren't going to bother switching back. Unity keeps trying to "clarify" shit instead of just reversing the damn decision as well, it's like they think we're all idiots. I really hope Microsoft/Sony/Apple/Nintendo have a lawsuit lined up.

This decision literally fucks us all too (platform holders, subscription holders, gamers, unity developers and employees).

This shows the danger of having one engine hold such a massive portion of the market though, we're all focused on Unity right now but it shows a danger of everyone switching to Unreal Engine because imagine if Epic pulled such a move in the future, I think there's some options for Unity developers because there's other good engines at a smaller scale but there's really not any viable alternatives to Unreal Engine for the AAA market.

I think Xbox should license out their engines to any that want to use them, id Tech, Creation, Forza Tech, etc. I also think Xbox needs to focus more of their devs on their own engines because I really worry about how many of them are using Unreal now. Epic are greedy bastards and eventually they will show their true colors and increase their fee from 5% to 10 or 15% now that they have won over dozens of devs (including AAA) in recent years.