Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

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    1 year ago

    The only problem with open source is you can’t really make a profit from it. If someone wants it, they can just spin up their own local copy of the original, and you can’t do shit about it.

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      1 year ago

      That’s true if the entire project is open source, but if just the engine is, you can still charge for the game. And Godot has a special closed license that you can get, so that you can sell your game on consoles.

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      1 year ago

      Not in the same way but earning money at the point of distribution is not the only way, there’s various patronage methods.