Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine

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29 points·jarsin··8 comments

The title is deceptive, to say the least.

Ya, there's no evidence of this. There's some hand-wavy quote in the last sentence saying it is happening, but you can't just switch in a week. This isn't like swapping a CSS file on a webpage.

To say the least. But it's nonetheless a direct quote from Epic Games' lawyer Katherine Forrest. I agree it's a dubious claim, but that's what Epic told the court.

“It will no longer be a usable engine,” Forrest said. “Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine. It’s happening now. It’s not speculative.”

Having practiced law for a decade, I can assure you that many (though not most) attorneys would say this if even just 2 or 3 developers had stopped using Unreal since this fiasco started. Even if their departure had nothing to do with the current restrictions Apple has put in place. People are awful.

An improved title might be "Lawyer claims developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine".

Epic legal battle aside, this is also somewhat interesting, given Unity's recently-announced IPO.

There must be a huge cost associated with investing in learning in an engine. Almost every mmo that comes out of Asia is still built on Unreal 3, even brand new games. Weird.

That's a stretch and a half...

You don't change game engines in a week, so presumably they mean people who haven't made anything yet are re-evaluating Unreal...

Which, I guess? But you're not really fleeing the engine if you were never on it. And I seriously question how big of an effect it's had

This feels like legal doing legal and trying to lay down the groundwork for claiming damage down the line

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