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> The leadership will be ousted by their shareholders quickly enough, I expect.

Wouldn't be that certain... there is a lot of stuff built on Unity. The most common theme I heard was that they're trying to capitalize off of Genshin Impact [1], but there's also a ton of other highly successful games like Among Us or Untitled Goose Game that won't/can't (easily) be ported to another engine.

In other words, they want to become the IBM of game engines. Rent seekers for sub-par service.

[1] https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/will-genshin-impact-affe...

[2] https://www.create-learn.us/blog/top-games-made-with-unity/

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This doesn't really address the concerns of the above-- that people will not make new games in Unity. Unlike IBM, which could arguably sell to large corps subpar product, Unity's consumer base are flighty and don't have upper managers that can be bribed with nice dinners.

They have a sizable captive user base and will be milking them until they're dry, at which point those responsible for this disaster will jump ship with a massive golden parachute.

Among Us can't easily be ported to another engine? LOL

I've been making a Unity VR game, and I can assure you, with a bit blood, sweat, tears, and some ChatGPT assistance, it can be done, especially for the vanilla 2d games which represent the majority of Unity games in the wild.

What engine did you port too?

Godot

People keep bringing up Genshin without even knowing anything. I don't even wanna read that sportskeeda article because I'm 100% sure they also didn't research and I don't want to give them any engagements.

The developers of Genshin is a major shareholders in Unity China which is an offshot company based in China which has different terms. They are separate entity from Unity Technologies.

Source: https://blog.unity.com/news/unity-forms-new-venture-to-manag...

Yup, my opinion as well. Then there will be massive layoff to cut R&D and UnityAds. It might go back to sub 5000 employees but essentially IS is going to lead.

Is there an easy way to determine what underlying game engine is used on Steam or the Apple Store?

I would love to track new releases for the next N months and see how it compares vs historical. Does utilization fall off a cliff?

Considering game Dev is measured in years, it'll take a while.

For sure, I bet many projects have too much momentum to switch, but there are likely lots of smaller efforts (mobile-flavor of the month) that are going to be switching stacks as soon as possible.

I have no clue how accurate that is https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Unity/

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