• Deconceptualist
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    2 years ago

    I know Valve has a good reputation but I really don’t want another company owning both a major storefront and a major game engine. It’s not great to have Epic in that situation, but at least they provide competition to Steam.

    If Unity fails hopefully that means another game engine company can grow and take their place and keep market competition strong.

      • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        Source 2 is ancient and doesn’t even come close to modern Unity. Unity added a lot of modern stuff in the last few years (obviously) like physically-based rendering, which make a world of a difference in games.

          • kingthrillgore
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            12 years ago

            You’re never going to see Source 2, you will see S&box though which is based on Source 2

            • @Zetta@mander.xyz
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              22 years ago

              I’m pretty sure valve has stated source 2 will be publicly available in the future just like source 1 is. They haven’t ever really betrayed or misled me in the 10+ years I’ve been on steam so I’m going to believe Valve.

              • kingthrillgore
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                12 years ago

                Valve’s really slow to announce anything and given that there’s only I dunno, three games right now using Source 2, they’ve probably forgotten about it. Furthermore, looking at how S&box is shaping up, they could always just buy Facepunch and make it the ‘licensable’ option because it looks more feature complete. I wouldn’t be surprised if S&box shakes out to be the Source 2 you can use at home. Source 2’s featureset is more or less dictated by what Valve wants to build, which makes it a poor choice unless you wanna make a VR FPS game or a Moba.

    • lorez
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      52 years ago

      Well, to be fair the Epic Games Store is not a major storefront.