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re: "The Gambling Industry is Largely Moving to Godot."

I don't know, seems like the author should have at least mixed feelings about this? It can't be prevented with an MIT license, but it doesn't seem like great news?

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What is your objection[1]? If companies in that industry are contributing directly to funding development or hiring developers it's positive for the engine and for the rest of the community who get it on the same license terms. Look at how Bet365 (iirc) has kept Riak and some other bits of the Erlang ecosystem going.

[1] Conceding that some minority of people find gambling addictive and they are the customers the game makers tailor their product for.

It's exactly what you conceded in [1].

If I found out that that open source software I'm working on is ending up in slot machines, I wouldn't feel great about it, even if there's not really anything to be done about it. It just seemed like an odd thing to brag about.

Probably one should be equally uneasy about one's OSS contributions ending up in F2P games too, since they are often highly addictive time- and money-sinks.

I'm surprised gambling needs 3D at all…

related: AMD is making embedded products for gambling now (look at their YouTube channel)

They have very flashy, AAA-style graphics now. Check out Konami's pivot:

https://www.casino-review.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CR16...

One of the reasons is that Godot has a dedicated 2D engine with pixel units etc.

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