Why is Unity the most popular engine?

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Epic made UE4 because they basically lost their AAA clients.
Unreal is pretty much an indie’s engine now, despite there’s still a few big budget projects licensing custom deals to use UE4, 100% of AAA companies have their own proprietary in-house next-gen engine… sometimes even more than one in-house tech.
Epic was falling to their knees, they had to sell a large chunk of the company to Tencent in order to survive and not much longer made UE4 available to the indie crowds with open source, trying to earn back some market space.
By the time Epic did that move, Unity was already a 2B company.
Unity was so confident of their dominance that they was planning a 50% price increase for their Pro license, which I was one of the licensees… Epic announced UE4 going $20 bucks a months then Unity refrained for a while, they was a bit afriad of UE4; but few months later with already new CEO Unity made several surveys and seeing that almost nobody would leave to UE4 they have began implementing the shift to subscription model… Why charge ONCE for a perpetual license when you can charge 4x times that value from your licensees, forever?!
I find pretty funny that even today people can’t realize what is going on over there…

Still, UE4 isn’t that superior product from the POV you are implying, Epic would never make Unreal if was they on top.
Unity succeeded replicating Microsoft’s strategies (make people dependent then rape them), from a business perspective that makes Unity hundreds of time superior to Unreal. No surprise former Epic games president Capps now is a member of Unity board; Epic was falling, Unity was rising… He jumped ship and joined Unity together with that EA guy.
So infact today Unity is the big guy, Epic is the little guy :]

WOW that is incredible I never knew that.