Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games

hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably because most devs stopped making their own proprietary engines, so the supply for solid engines is at an all time low. With less options they can crank up the price, as there aren’t really any other options for most devs.

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  • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha Godot go brrrrrrr

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    • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopefully Godot is the first of many

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      • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are a lot of game engines out there. Godot is a good engine if you’re jumping from Unity because it’s a lot more similar to Unity than some other engines and they both can use C#.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s great that Godot is growing

      But if it would have been pretty funny if it was vaporware

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  • Chailles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most devs never would have made their own proprietary engines. With ready availability of engines to use, the number of developers skyrocketed as it lowered the bar of who can make a game.

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• NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because like all the tech industry, they grew massively on the back of low interest rates since 2008 where investors saw better returns putting money into companies than sitting on it, now the interest rates have shot up again post Covid, they need to show their investors they can make better returns than the 5%+ they’d make just leaving the money in the bank. Hence the cost cutting by sacking staff and gouging of customers by price increases.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same reason everyone else is pivoting to profitability. Interest rates and loan repayments.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or taking advantage of that happenning with the competition, to enhance profitability.

    Make money is the point of pretty much all companies, and financially there are only 2 thinks stopping them from upping their prices:

    • If there is competition it will lead to losing customers (though thinks like branding subvert this quite a bit) which means the money they make might with higher prices might actually be less.
    • If prices get too high people will choose the “do without” option.

    Anyways, the point being that if there is a broader shift in pricing in the market, even companies that are not under the same financial pressures to up prices will still do it as the 1st of those price limitation is relaxed so they can make more money.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  capitalism

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Capitalism is becoming unbearable. People are getting squeezed from every side.

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• Sivalente@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone wants to be part of the " big squeeze " that’s going on.

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• Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because China is increasingly looking broke, so daddy Tencent's purse is tightening. On top of that, the world's banks now have interest rates to look after again, so their free money streams have ended too.

  But the rich want to keep their free money train going, so we're all paying now.

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• Alimentar@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As recession looms, you have general inflation and increased interest rates. This affects overhead and loan repayments. That and probably other factors all contribute to the need to raise prices.

  It’s not just the gaming sector. Almost all other sectors are raising their prices or adjusting their service plans. Eg. shrinkflation and/or lower quality on products and services.

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