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		tomatowurst on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unreal vs. Unity Opinion If you are an indie developer and have never worked with C++ before, don't even think about UE5, if you plan on ever finishing your game. Stick with Unity. Unreal makes money from royalties. Think about the odds of indie game developers generating more than $1MM vs an established studio who has shipped games/films before. You've been warned.

rasz on April 18, 2022 [–]

On a flip side Unity game has greater chance to be made by incompetent people, as evidenced by all the asset flips

https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Asset_flipping

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-asset-flipping-gaming/

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