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[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (19 children)

Companies don't want to invest in creating their own engine anymore, so now we get unoptimized unreal engine games now.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago (8 children)

If you have the talent and manpower to create your own engine, it’s better business to make that engine your product instead of whatever game you wanted to make.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I disagree here, making an engine you'd sell must be top notch in every aspect (or close to), an in-house engine only needs to get the job done for your game. Probably two orders of magnitude in needed workforce, depending on your needs ofc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Very very few actual profitable companies roll their own engines.

Supercell has their own, but it’s because they started before there was anything available.

Indie games make their own engines but it’s more of a hobby or passion project, not something that can employ two dozen people to develop it.

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