this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
1413 points (99.4% liked)

Games

32487 readers
1269 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, every single project regardless of proprietary or open source has a backlog like that. It's just that open source projects show the backlog and don't have marketing people telling what is and is not in the backlog.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All software development has issues that are simply left unfixed. Some bugs are hard to fix, and don't really matter in the long run.

Example: they don't even bother with memory management on cruise missiles, since eventually its gonna reach its target...