JDPoZ , 7 months ago

…which is why Godot now is quickly slipping into the niche that Unity largely used to be for.

And since Godot is FOSS, there is no going back for Unity once Indie game devs have shifted, since - like with Blender being free to use - it destroys the competition by becoming the defacto king when it comes to things like video tutorials on places like YouTube.

Popular tutorial channels on YouTube know their viewer audience is less likely to be large enough to be profitable via ad revenue, premium subscriptions, etc. if they are limited niche of people only willing to pay thousands for a license to an application they don’t yet have any professional reason to pay for.

Being open source in any way also usually then leads to a snowball effect of an application gaining popularity and then people extending its functionality.

This is also what I think will soon happen to Plex with Jellyfin since the Plex bigwigs have decided they want to be Netflix more than people’s personal media server frontend.

All it will take is one big mistake and the ground will fall beneath their feet just like with Unity.

All fascinating and frustrating to watch as I used to work with Unity a ton since its early days.