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No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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It's interesting to me that articles mention godot before unreal. I mean this is not the first time I see it
There is a potential chance of unreal doing the same stupid shit afterall
Yeah... Tim Sweeny hasn't been kind to Linux like Gabe has, but Sweeny has really pushed for increasing developer margins, breaking down monopolizes, etc.
Ultimately, competition is good... even if competition does result in some discomfort from having two major PC game stores instead of one.
Would be great if one of the stores weren't utter shit, didn't work on Linux, and didn't hoard exclusivity deals with game developers.
It's truly a struggle clicking icon number 14 on my desktop instead of icon number 15
I'm not saying it's going to happen. Still there's a chance of stupid COP shits happening when compared to open source.
It's a company, they can just say "fuck it, pay more". It would be weird, self destructive and illogical, but they can do it (like unity did it too.)
The thing is, this could change at any time. The problem with enshittification is that it spreads. A company that's doing great work today could be bought out by corporate profiteers and leeched of its actual value at any point in the future. We've had plenty of companies that started out with a vision and a set of strong principles who've been reduced to predatory business practices that are bad for everyone. You can't assume that because a company seems to have integrity now, that integrity will remain.
Remember Elon Musk 15 years ago? Wasn't quite the same, was it?
To me, sitting in a position of getting started in game development, that makes me want to sink my time and effort into an engine that I know can't be enshittified because it can't be bought out. I want to know that in a few years I'm not going to completely scrub every asset and mechanic that I make for the engine because somebody's pulled some Darth Vader shit.