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Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp (kotaku.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Pxtl@lemmy.ca to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

The second good news for Godot today and I'm here for it

[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

How does this help Godot?

[-] kiku123@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago

I guess that since Epic owns Unreal Engine that bad news for Epic means good news for Godot?

I don't think that Epic is going to want to divest from Unreal considering how much money it makes.

I also don't think that it's a zero-sum game. As a developer I want Unreal (and Unity) to be great so it creates more competition. Unreal has led the way in a lot of cool gaming tech that Godot is picking up.

[-] Rose@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Epic actually invested in Godot with their MegaGrant. Godot is also available on the Epic store.

[-] mammut@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe it was reverse psychology. Epic is trying to destroy the competition by giving them money. Then, paranoid gamers will refuse to use or support Godot, because there's a connection to Epic.

[-] Ranjeliq@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

Epic also gave money to Lutris, while Epic's CEO was smearing Linux users on twitter, so I wouldn't count on Epic's stance on things and where some of Epic's money going aligning any time soon. Those megagrants feel very disingenuous to me (doesn't mean that those money do not help those "underdog" projects, though).