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Then put your money towards improving them (or writing your own, if that's cheaper/better?), rather than feeding yet another proprietary hog. By continuing to

Then put your money towards improving them (or writing your own, if that's cheaper/better?), rather than feeding yet another proprietary hog. By continuing to buy UE you're just digging yourself a deeper hole for when things inevitably turn sour (as they just did for Unity).

outworlder 8y ago
That's an absurd proposition for most people. Rolling out our own worked for Minecraft. It also may work for bigger companies (Frontier Developments, Bethesda?). Successful releases using open-source engines are rare. For the overwhelmingly majority, they are much better off just using one of the big game engines, even after paying them.