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Agreed. The number of times I've read "don't worry, this doesn't change anything" in the press release of an acquisition is too many to count, and the number of

• TylerE 9y ago
  In this case it's probably a good thing. Really, the thing to do is buy it for the name, and then start from scratch in an actually good game engine (i.e. not Unity)
  • cr0sh 9y ago
    > in an actually good game engine (i.e. not Unity) ...and drop Linux support, of course. /smh
    • jsmthrowaway 9y ago
      https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Support https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Support http://www.pcworld.com/article/2940175/cryteks-powerful-cryengine-is-the-latest-gaming-engine-to-embrace-linux.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2940175/cryteks-powerful-crye... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)#OS_X.2C_Linux.2C_and_Android_support https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)#OS_X.2C... UE4 even runs in a browser out of the box. Unity is not the Magic Linux Engine, it's just a bit more convenient because of .NET, particularly when it comes to modding.
  • omg_ketchup 9y ago
    Unity's actually great... the problem is anyone can use it.
    • TylerE 9y ago
      Unity's great for small indie games. Complex simulations don't mix well with mandatory GC. Microstutters suck.
      • jimmaswell 9y ago
        It's not that hard to work with the GC in Unity to make the game smooth, especially if you do so from the beginning. https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/performance-optimization/optimizing-garbage-collection-unity-games https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/performance-optim...
        • TylerE 9y ago
          How come no ones seem to do it then, or not do it well enough? Cities:Skylines has the same GC stutters.
          • bananaboy 9y ago
            It's easy to fall into the trap of doing things the simple way or the unity way. To avoid it you have to go out of your way a bit and apply the same rigour as if you were writing your own engine.
            • jimmaswell 9y ago
              Not making heap allocations in loops/Update and favoring object reuse really isn't comparable to writing your own engine.
              • bananaboy 9y ago
                I didn't say it was. I'm just saying that you can't allocate and instantiate all over the shop just because it's a GC language.
          • jimmaswell 9y ago
            I've never encountered a stuttering issue in any Unity game I've played.
        • prewett 9y ago
          For a game engine, smooth performance is pretty much required. If you have to a) know that you have to worry about GC stutters (which beginners are unlikely to), and b) proactively do something about it, that seems like a major failing of a game engine. If I use a game engine, it's because I want to work on the game and avoid having to do things like manage the GC. Besides, GC is one of those things that is classically unsuitable for real-time use cases, and games are exactly a real-time use case. So you could argue that Unity choosing a GC language was a predictably a bad decision. Again, I don't use a game engine because I want to put up with bad decisions.
  • pawadu 9y ago
    Give a man a game engine and he will write a game. Give a man no game engine and he will write a game engine for the rest of his life. - unknown GDC speaker
    • mcphage 9y ago
      Hey, I resemble that remark :-(
      • TeMPOraL 9y ago
        Same here. At some point I had more abandoned game engines than actual games in playable state...
    • TylerE 9y ago
      I didn't say write their own... but how about a proper multithreaded modern engine like Unreal?
• gozur88 9y ago
  Yes, but it wasn't EA who did the purchase.