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I see major development studios are fine with this change. No Blizzard, Bethesda, Rockstar, CD Project Red, Epic Games, Ubisoft...

Unless they weight in on this, Unity won't budge. Honestly, it almost seems like someone is destroying the IT industry on purpose.

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All those major studios listed have their own game engines, so unitys decisions don't affect them anyways. And Epic develops Unreal Engine, so Unitys' loss is their win.

Bethesda has a game engine?

I thought their games were run by a 1000 year old abacus.

Starfield engine is pretty good: https://youtu.be/neO-Bl7g9-U

I would claim that’s the physics engine, more than the “game engine”. Physx did this sort of thing 15 years ago.

well, no one else is known for their "physics engine", so clearly Bethesda did something right, or cheaper than everyone else (doubtful).

If it were actually part of the gameplay, rather than the result of console commands, then I think this would hold more weight.

I've checked some gameplay footage and it's atrocious.

Bethesda is making the same game in a different package ever since Oblivion.

Which is Nintendo's whole business, to be fair.

Heartstone is Unity, Witcher card game by CDPR may be as well.

Support for Gwent will end this year and Hearthstone is soon 10 years old and not that relevant for Blizzard. Their much more important game Diablo Immortal uses a different engine.

The big publishers only used that engine for a few offshoots and this change will guarantee that won't happen again.

"Don't intefere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself".

Those big companies also have mostly their own engines, so the majority of their products are totaly unaffected by this.

> I see major development studios are fine with this change.

Even if they didn’t have their own engines, they’re all big enough that they would be paying huge amounts in license fees, and thus have enough leverage to negotiate a contract without BS terms in it.

In other news, the rental car company buying 1000 cars doesn’t do so on the same sales form used when a consumer buys 1 car.

> Honestly, it almost seems like someone is destroying the IT industry on purpose.

They're not, it's just that (unfortunately for all of us here) it's shrinking to more normal dimensions now that it's no longer being watered by a ceaseless flow of money.

Those dimensions are becoming ever smaller with the advancement of A.I.

Now that companies have their golden goose, they no longer need plain humans. After all, A.I. does not eat, it doesn't sleep and it does not get sick.

It may not get sick, but it does hallucinate. ;)

And it still doesn’t quote bash variables properly.

Sounds human enough to me

In the short term, AI is creating jobs. If your code is replaceable by AI, you are definitely a replaceable coder without AI.

Yeah, exactly. As if the flow of money drying up wasn't enough.

I suspect any of the larger companies that use Unity are going to weight in with their lawyers instead of public appeals.

Does CD Project Red use Unity? A quick search shows that they have an in house engine, and switching to Unreal.

Some of their games do like stand alone Gwent. Big titles do not.

Similarly, Blizzard used Unity for their card game, Hearthstone.

They licensed Aurora engine from Bioware way back in the day of Witcher 1, then developed their own (Red Engine). I guess Red Engine has lots of Bioware DNA going on.

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