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A comment on Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming. Parent comment

Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ... by darklycan51 on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:39PM (#37527424)
When I was talking about monopoly, I was talking about 3rd party engines, not storefronts.
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Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ... by gochi on Friday September 15, 2023 @08:04PM (#37530564)
They still wouldn't be a monopoly engine-wise, even excluding Unity you have Godot and O3DE as popular open source options. Ignoring that a lot of studios are now sharing internal custom engines, like Sony's studios with the Decima engine.
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