• TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I have a friend who has been moderately successful in the game creation space and he is saying he wants to just give up at this point because of this change.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t even blame him. I would too. This is essentially a situation where the only option is going to be a rewrite from the ground up in a new language and new engine.

        If I was an indie game dev I’d be questioning my future right now too.

    • The_v@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This will kill new development on the engine and older games without who have a limited number of users.

      The ones halfway or more through development to recently launched will have to move to subscriber model or a shit-ton of ads.

      In the next 3-5 years however their profits will likely be up. So some larger company will likely buy them out.