UE4 - An amateur's initial impression vs Unity

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I’ll just put it bluntly that outside of the USA, and major cities of Europe, you simply cannot find an Unreal developer. In Bulgaria for example I don’t know of a single studio using Unreal, everyone is using Unity or a custom engine as part of a large international studio (eg. Ubisoft). If you are hiring talent you cannot get around this. The one possible argument is that the inhouse engines of large studios are usually based on C++ so you could hire a programmer from there and hope that they can learn Unreal.

I’d argue that this is an exclusively Eastern European problem, and it’s not down to a lack of Unreal Engine experience, it’s down to a lack of experience full stop. A competent gameplay programmer can usually get to grips with Unreal or any other engine fairly quickly. A large number of studios use completely in-house tools, so don’t have the luxury of looking for experience with said tools.