As many of us are already aware, Trump is going after foreign revenue sources and apps with sensitivity to security. Since Trump is going after Tencent, whom is a 40% stake holder of Epic Games, how will this affect all the game designers that have put their entire lives into Unreal Engine? Will we be able to continue using Unreal engine? Or do you think it’ll be safe since the majority of Epic Games is USA owned?
This situation has definitely stressed me out. Is this stress justified, or am I missing something?
Wish and hope it not to happen as all public listed companies cares only one thing to please the share holders and get more money from the customers. Then the company will have to function according to the plan of the board of director etc instead of the the idea of the founding father /original visionaries who found the company. (see the case of the co-founder of arm) If it has to happen for need of cash or something, I think that it might not be the best outcome for dev using the engine.
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It is the vision and leadership of Mr. Sweeny that has made possible for us to have access to unreal engine. I don’t t want to happen to unreal what happened to Id tech 5 game engine. After their founder John Carmack went away from company, they new management not only closed stopped realeasing source code, but also stopped public’s access to the engine. What if it happens if UE does IPO and go public!