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You're getting downvoted, but Epic is extremely anti-competitive. This is likely the reason.
Epic's store offers a cheaper alternative to a near monopoly on digital game distribution on PC. How are they anti-competitive?
Therefore, Epic's exclusivity deals rub some people the wrong way.
Re-upping this blog post (sadly overlooked when first posted to HN) which asks the reasonable question 'why not just use Godot for general-purpose applications?' https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
There's a lot of functionality that a general purpose UI library has that Godot will likely never approach, like support for input methods in text editing. Productive applications require extremely robust text editing, something that game engines don't spend a lot of time with. Stuff like selection, text input for non-English keyboards, IME popups, that sort of thing. Even RTL text display is usually minimally unsupp…
It's not impossible, but apparently very hard.
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I don't think there's anything naive about this take.. Why wouldn't a company like Epic, who is the dominant market player by far, put some funding into smaller open source research projects like this? Godot is no threat to them, and quite the contrary brings positive contributions to the whole industry. Not only is it good PR, but as they say a rising tide lifts all boats.
Not sure what market you mean, Unity has a larger marketshare. Can't find a good source for numbers but a lot of places are quoting that Unity has 48% of the total market and Unreal has 13%. Also not sure how this is being measured, but in my experience Unity is more popular.
Steam (the video game marketplace) gets hundreds of releases each day (seriously), and the vast majority of them are bad, and make no money.
I think if you're looking at serious money-making studios that put out good games (whether they are indie or AAA), I bet the engine distribution would look different than your numbers.
But that's my best guess..
This looks really cool and impressive of course, but I still feel the easiest way for most indies (which Godot is aimed at) to stand out is to get away from photo-realism.
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You're getting downvoted, but Epic is extremely anti-competitive. This is likely the reason.
Epic's store offers a cheaper alternative to a near monopoly on digital game distribution on PC. How are they anti-competitive?
They basically exploited their Fortnite money-making machine to try to become a monopoly on PC.
How is that not anti-competitive?
For reference, Steam has never forced exclusivity on partners to distribute their games.
As for cheaper, Epic didn't become they couldn't charge the same. As simple as that.
So if I wanted to make a simple 2d game, should I go with godot, pygame, or a JavaScript game engine?
To add another option to the others, https://www.monogame.net/showcase/ is fairly popular.
It's probably worth running through a tutorial in each and seeing what clicks for you if you have no experience.
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Epic's store offers a cheaper alternative to a near monopoly on digital game distribution on PC. How are they anti-competitive?
Epic paid obscene amounts of money to studios to force them come to their store and force exclusivity on them. They basically exploited their Fortnite money-making machine to try to become a monopoly on PC. How is that not anti-competitive? For reference, Steam has never forced exclusivity on partners to distribute their games. As for cheaper, Epic didn't become they couldn't charge the same. As simple as that.
This sounds good for developers all around, and a minor inconvenience for gamers who are free to buy from as many stores as they like on PC. Yet could benefit gamers long term as it motivates Steam to be more competitive.
Anti competitive would be buying up competing battle royale franchises to reduce consumer choice.
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Epic's store offers a cheaper alternative to a near monopoly on digital game distribution on PC. How are they anti-competitive?
The enemy (Godot) of my enemy (Unity) is my friend. Is essentially what this thread is talking about. At this point (ie. Epic sitting on truck loads of cash), lost revenue for Epic Games competitors is almost as good as revenue for Epic Games. That is what people are talking about when they say anti-competitive. It's another form of a price squeeze.
If anything well regulated markets might tax oversized competitors to fund upstarts to maintain a balanced, competitive landscape. There's room for more than just two game-making tools.
I get why Epic probably funds this, and I love to think how great Godot could be in another year or so (and how they could surpass Unity, etc). What I don't really understand, though: Why wouldn't Unity just implement this now, too?! It's open-source & MIT-licensed; if it's better than Unity's GI -- and it IS better, because Unity does not currently have ANY realtime-GI solution in their latest versions (they stopped…
Not 100% true; there is ray-traced GI.