Really great for godot, and i hope it will get better and better.

As for Unity, the 2022 gaming report states unity has 230.000 active developers doing 750.000 games.
Let's say 5% of those have been (publicly) angry about this whole debacle, that would be 11.500 (way to high a number but let's be positive), let's say 1% of those are really going to quit with unity, that would be 1150 (again way to high but hey), that still leaves 228.850

Unity is not going anywhere, how frustrating it might be, it is so big (as is epic) it can simply get away with this stuff.

Of course it will give some extra momentum to the godot's of this world, but that will be about it, I think epic is probably the one laughing quietly in a corner for the 1% that is comming their way.

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I am glad valve choose to work with codeweavers, they did and still do a lot for wine but are often forgotten and feels crossover is mentioned to little :)

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My first thought would be to say to little to late, however developers to far in their current development cycle can't change. For smaller developers who hire manpower when needed there simply is a huge pool of talent they can hire from. Then there is Godot but is it really up to par with unity or epic at this point in time, from what I read it's not there yet. So in this day and age where people's attention span is as long as their facebook/twitter/X feed for today and unity might be 1% cheaper then epic it will blow over, might be a little dip but not in the long run.

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So for more revenue from 10% of their customers they are basically doing a titanic with their game engine. And no mather what they going to do now it will take then years to get any credibility back.

And as I said on the other post, I find it pretty amazing this can be done retroactive one sided, the "phone home on install" code must have been in their for quiet a while.

Funny how their stock went up a little today, then dropped again but not as much as it was in the morning, so I guess investors see a future, sort of... (select 5D [External Link])

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I am still a bit confused about this. Its their right to go for another business model, not saying this is smart. Where I am confused is how they can do this on already released games? That would mean that the "phone home after installation" has been in there quite a while. Also don't understand how they can change this one sided, I assume all the developers sign some kind of contract, does that have so many loopholes that this is allowed? Maybe in the United States, but wonder if and how a EU Court would look at the changing of term on a running contract when a developer is about to release a game he been working on for years and has nowhere to go now.

So despite that I find it a dumb move I am wondering how they can simply change the terms and get away with it.

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Both lovely games if you like adventures, going to search for my old cdroms :grin:

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Quoting: soulsourceNot even a numpad? That doesn't make me optimistic about the quality of the device...

I did my best to see the connection between no numpad and quality and I can't, so please enlighten me.

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Quoting: GuestNot only did they quietly drop native releases after 15 years of great support, they outright ignored direct inquiries from me and others several times since the game's original announcement. Frictional has lost alot of my respect from that alone; went from a day one buy as all their games for me since Penumbra to maybe waiting for bargain bin sale.

Although I fully understand you sentiment and I even agree, they always been day one buys for me too I can't really blame them. With Wine/Proton running windows games as good as it does (and the glitch Liam mentioned will probably be fixed) why would a small company (20-25 or so employees) waste resources on making a Linux version that might take 3-4% in sales and maybe 20% resources to make ?

On once side Wine/Proton is a blessing for gaming in Linux on the other side is makes sure native ports will never become mainstream.

as I said I agree with your sentiment but I can't blame them or say they lost my respect.

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Quoting: chickenb00But with a profit of just $1M, I can see why they don't want to invest time and money into that.

This, for all comparing Gog with Steam, with that little profit the linux market is still to small to invest in.

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Quoting: massatt212wasn't surprise this would happen, Sony corruption is too big, Sony even bought another studio last week and complaining how microsoft will take COD there money Goose lol.

This is what you read so often as a defence for the takeover, I am sorry but there is a huuuuuuge diffrent between Sony buying a small studio which not even has a franchise to Microsoft buying BA for 68 billion dollars which has some of the biggest franchises in the game market not to mention the mobile part.

This is so much bigger then Sony PS vs Microsoft xbox, this is about the long run, 10 or 15 years from now.

Microsoft is a company and has an obligation to its shareholders to maximise profit, so yes on the short run everything will be great, BA games on the gamepass, more people will flock to it. There are several trains of though about the gamepass and if it is really good for (small) developers but that is not what this post is about. It is the long run where the money is, get so many people on windows/xbox/gamepass that it will become unavoidable and even epic or steam won't be able to compete against a gamepass on which almost every game will be included for a crazy cheap amount and that is scary for anybody who wants atleast some competition and an open market.

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