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    1 year ago

    Unreal has explicit licensing terms that forbid them from doing this. Terms which people are going to pay very close attention to.

    Not to mention that Epic gets their money from Fortnite, not necessarily the engine. They have no reason to squander their goodwill like that.

    On top of that - if you want to release on a console, you need to write all the console-specific code yourself. This is quite a lot of work, especially for an indie developer.

    Godot is a great start, but it’s got a long way to go before it’s a commercial-ready engine.