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Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits. (arstechnica.com)
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Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.::Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.

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[–] 50 points 3 years ago (23 children)

"Proprietary Software A is evil. I'm switching to Proprietary software B. I'm sure they won't eventually fuck me over for money"

Maybe check out an actual FOSS product like Godot

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  • [–] 111 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Godot is great, and in 5 years it could be Blender level of capable, but today it's not at the level that Unity and UE are. and Op is a working professional apparently so they probably need that capability.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    It would be a shame if OP were out of a job because he is waiting for Godot.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wow, what a long and meta meme it would be if the engine is simply created to never be ready on purpose, hence waiting for Godot.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Godot was created by its devs for internal projects and there was a sizeable gap between the time they announced that it would be open-sourced and made available to the public and the time they actually did it. Godot 4 also took a lot longer to release than anyone expected.

    Godot devs are used to waiting.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    😡 angry upvote 😡

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Angry because you also suffered through the theater of the absurd in high school? (I studied The Caretaker by Harold Pinter... for a whole school year 😭)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's not, but there are a LOT of games - particularly in the Indie or small-studio category - that don't actually need Unity/UE level features either.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Oh sure. But also it might not be obvious what features we are talking about. Unity and ue do a lot of things that are useful for developers, that you won't see as a player. So you might think that this game doesn't need to be on unity/ue, but also being on unity/ue halved the development time and costs

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    How many jobs require experience in Godot? We don't live in a fantasy world.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Right now, few, but in 6 months, 95% of the studios that used Unity will be using Godot, simply because it's much lighter and is much more suited for the Unity style of game (Hollow Knight, Celeste, Among US, etc) than unreal is.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    95% of the studios that used Unity will be using Godot

    (X) to doubt on that one, chief.

    If all you were doing was a 2D game, maybe. But Unity's 3D stack is head and shoulders above Godot for anything past hobby projects. If you were working on a 3D Unity project professionally, Unreal is probably a better move than Godot, practically speaking.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    Based on their comment, I don't think they're the person deciding what engine is used. They work for someone else that has already selected an engine. They need to keep their skills employable first and foremost here.

    Hopefully Godot takes off a bit here, I think there's good room for it to advance with indie devs and maybe use that growth to be able to be more of an alternative to UE sometime afterwards.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    The business is about making good games and making money. If Godot can actually support that don't you think devs would've switched to it in droves?

    Since it's FOSS I would assume it's got no crazy financial legalese to bleed the devs dry. So it stands to reason that the Godot product is simply not ready. Devs are not stupid, if there is a tech that is better and free they'd switch to it in a heartbeat, or at least put it on the table for the next game.

    The fact that they haven't done so says things about Godot itself.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It is possible for things that are objectively better to not be as popular. I'd say Firefox is one example. Linux is another.

    Rust is maybe the closest parallel. I'm currently learning rust slowly, but even if I got to the point where I was as comfortable in rust as I am in c++, the code I work with at work will still be c++. Even if my whole team learns rust and agrees that it's better in every way, we'd still need to take the time to rewrite everything if we wanted to switch. That's already the case for Python vs Perl. Python is a better language but we still have a bunch of stuff going on in perl because it's still working so we might as well just keep it for now.

    Not that I'm saying Godot is necessarily there right now, just that it's lack of popularity doesn't imply its not as good.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    According to the other comments on this post, it definitely does not seem like Godot is ready for prime time.

    What do they say about "waiting for Godot" again?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Many of the other comments on this post are misinformed and based on past versions of Godot. But Godot has recently had an update that has focused primarily on improving it's 3D support. I get the impression that many people looked into Godot version 3.x, and never bothered to look any further. It's true that it's not as mature as Unity, but that takes time and it will eventually get there. But people are unfairly disregarding, at the moment based on past versions being focused on excellent 2D support but mediocre 3D support.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It's also a bit of a chicken and egg situation because in order for them to mature significantly, games have to be made in Godot, but less people will even start if Godot doesn't look mature enough as a product.

    On the other hand, Godot 4.x is really impressive. Like yeah you're not gonna be able to make the next million dollar open world action adventure 70 USD + DLC title in it, but for every one of those there's a hundred games that Godot is more than powerful enough for. But the new version only just came out earlier this year so it's gonna take a while before we see games coming out with the new tech.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Tell me you don’t understand how the industry works without telling me you don’t understand how the industry works. OP is learning another technology popular in demand. Like it or not, companies couldn’t care less about free software.

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