• kiku123@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I guess that since Epic owns Unreal Engine that bad news for Epic means good news for Godot?

    I don’t think that Epic is going to want to divest from Unreal considering how much money it makes.

    I also don’t think that it’s a zero-sum game. As a developer I want Unreal (and Unity) to be great so it creates more competition. Unreal has led the way in a lot of cool gaming tech that Godot is picking up.

    • Rose@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Epic actually invested in Godot with their MegaGrant. Godot is also available on the Epic store.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe it was reverse psychology. Epic is trying to destroy the competition by giving them money. Then, paranoid gamers will refuse to use or support Godot, because there’s a connection to Epic.

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        1 year ago

        Epic also gave money to Lutris, while Epic’s CEO was smearing Linux users on twitter, so I wouldn’t count on Epic’s stance on things and where some of Epic’s money going aligning any time soon. Those megagrants feel very disingenuous to me (doesn’t mean that those money do not help those “underdog” projects, though).