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Quoting: lejimsterEdit: that's a shame if they've given up their engine and native support for this release. I wonder if the Linux programmers have left? I still will buy, but that is disappointing to hear if the person above is correct.

I think it was only one programmer and he left for Stadia.

I guess in this case he's got time again now...

Seems to have moved on to Roblox since then. Not sure what I should think about that.

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Quoting: lejimsterEdit: that's a shame if they've given up their engine and native support for this release. I wonder if the Linux programmers have left? I still will buy, but that is disappointing to hear if the person above is correct.

I think it was only one programmer and he left for Stadia.

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Quoting: TcheyWhy is the custom text smaller than the data ?
"GamingOnLinux", "Resolution"... is in a smaller text than "GPU %" etc, and i find it disturbing.

Static information I suppose. No reason to waste lots of space on that.

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Despite the lack of native Linux support, this one is actually on my wishlist for release purchase. And with the almost silly low price, I probably can't wait to try it. Unless they do something stupid like adding Denuvo.

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The game looks kind of cool. But it has denuvo, so it's disqualified for purchase.

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Quoting: LummontUnreal Engine's pricing is 5% flat for all revenue over a million dollars, so that's even technically a better price, which is nice.

Do you think that Epic could have managed that pricing without their Fortnite income?

Quoting: LummontRather than "installs" I'd like them to say "downloads".

That doesn't help. It still means that Unity's fees per sale are uncapped, making it impossible to budget.

Quoting: LummontUnity can't be trusted with my livelihood.

It's another one of those "all eggs in one basket" examples. After Unity there are still many of those left.

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I think there is already a multipart Southpark episode for this one. You only need to replace the BP CEO with the EA guy from Unity.

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I think the biggest problem with most engines is the lack of console support. I imagine that is a big breaking point for a lot of devs. And Godot is a prime example of the difficulties in managing that.

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I understand that Unity is in a bit of a difficult position. Their main competitor is Unreal Engine and Epic is not playing fair competition by leveraging Fortnite money to buy customers. And this is probably made worse by the fact that Unity mostly gets the smaller development teams for which UE4/5 is simply too complicated.

But damn, whoever thought of this one really didn't think things through. Even in the best practical scenario, charging by install will make it impossible to know what the cost of your engine will be. Especially for the lowest tier, this would make it impossible to use for anything but free games. I suppose the devs have at least an option to make their game free after reaching an income of $199k. But honestly, I feel that the Unity board room is a bit out of touch with their customer base.

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Quoting: MayeulCYeah, I was about to point this mistake out too. But SteamPlay really was launched in 2010 IIRC, it was just Windows+Mac.

And I assume that this misunderstanding caused them to skip mentioning the real launch of steam for linux.

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