It cost a metric shit ton of time and manpower to create the game engine. What benefit would they have giving it away for free? Game engine creator studios, li

It cost a metric shit ton of time and manpower to create the game engine. What benefit would they have giving it away for free? Game engine creator studios, like unity or unreal, have vastly different objectives than a game company. Releasing and being required to maintain a public game engine costs resources. Where game devs are always crunching. Even then, look at the state of Unity, hardly profitable. Unreal was cruising on Fortnite cash so they don't care too much. More interested in setting themselves up to be the top dog first. This isn't exactly a money making situation.