Terraria devs condemn Unity, pledge $100k each to rival open-source engines and $1k a month going forward.
https:// www.gamedeveloper.com /business/terraria-developer-re-logic-condemns-unity-donates-100k-to-godot-and-fna Terraria devs condemn Unity, pledge $100k each to rival open-source engines and $1k a month going forward.
Could you not change the title? Yours is factually wrong.
The original is:
Terraria developer Re-Logic condemns Unity, donates $100k to both Godot and FNA
They are donating $100k each, as in $200k at once. And then another $1k per month each.
99OK, that makes a lot more sense. I read the title and was just confused, since there are so many different engines.
13Yeah, I was hoping to see the bevy game engine get that money.
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Re-logic again for the win.
I should play another 1000 hours of Terraria.
63Calamity Mod turned my 2000 hour Terraria profile into a 4000 hour one.
14I mean, that's my plan.
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I've been playing Terraria since June of 2011. It. Is. Awesome. Possibly my favorite game of all time. I knew the devs were awesome too, and I'm not surprised to see this.
If you don't own it, I promise Terraria is worth both your time and the 10$USD. Plus, you'll be supporting a kick ass team!
32I added it to my list of games to grab on Switch!
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Terraria is great! Also kudos to Re-Logic for supporting the industry!
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11Just added it to my wishlist on Steam and it will be my next purchase :)
11Nice, how will Godot spend it?
7"The loss of a formerly-leading and user-friendly game engine to the darker forces that negatively impact so much of the gaming industry has left us dismayed to put it mildly," wrote the Re-Logic team. "We unequivocally condemn and reject the recent TOS/fee changes proposed by Unity and the underhanded way they were rolled out."
I hope they are not serious about this moralizing , unity is making 1.8B but losing almost a billion a year, either they cut back on expenses or they somehow increase income, i think they might not want to cut back on expenses because they are feeling the heat of open source game engines like gadot or even gdevelop (and that will lead to a inferior product ). I think the same thing is happening with RISC-V and ARM.
Hopefully there is enough of real financial support for godot and other open source gaming software and not just feel good talk. godot fund almost doubled in funding but that is not close to 1B dollar (but maybe companies are allocating full time developers).
-10Maybe if unity is concerned about operating in the red they should stop doing billions of dollars in acquisitions.
14The dynamics of open source development are very different from commercial ventures. For example, Mastodon is basically developed by a single person with a few contributors. Yet, from user perspective it's superior to Twitter in many ways which is a company that used to have around 3k employees. The fact that Unity is a big company that has a lot of money doesn't directly translate into doing much higher quality development over Godot. It's a more polished product right now, but even a few hundred thousand can make a huge difference for Godot because that would mean full time development for at least a year.
7Bucky was right once again with his theory of "Ephemeralization" https://dbpedia.org/page/Ephemeralization ... The only reason we're concerned with these companies employing Devs and spending Billions to do what small teams of FOSS are able to achieve is simply a bad economic system that requires "make work" or Bullshit jobs for wages to feed the parasite class, instead of us living like the Jetson's. Time to move one!
13But yes, to your point, I have a somewhat controversial theory that given enough time, relatively niche proprietary software like Unity will not be able to compete with open-source software (if the latter is well-managed). Look at the growth that Blender has had over the last few years and what effect that has had in the 3D creation market. It seems that the game engine market is going to follow similar footsteps if Godot doesn't fall into some major pitfall.
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moralizing
That's what you are doing in their defense by preaching the virtues of the poor smol bean acquisition-hungry rent seeking billion dollar corporation that can't help doing widdle fucky wuckies like trying to make all of the money instead of just making money.
5get fucked, shit-lib
2I hope they are not serious about this moralizing , unity is making 1.8B but losing almost a billion a year, either they cut back on expenses or they somehow increase income, i think they might not want to cut back on expenses because they are feeling the heat of open source game engines like gadot or even gdevelop (and that will lead to a inferior product ).
Let's be real here, they've hit market saturation but profits have to keep going up, forever into infinity, no matter how shitty it makes their product or service.
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