Report: Unity's Runtime Fee quietly gave exemptions in launch rush

i don’t think unreal is under the same pressure for three reasons:

1. they already have a reasonable revenue sharing model. they make a lot more per licensee than unity does because they take a cut of your sales rather than charging a per-engineer license for the dev kit.
2. epic’s headcount is not nearly as horrendously bloated, even before the recent layoffs.
3. the company is still privately held with Tim Sweeney the majority owner.

points 1 and 2 mean epic is actually profitable, and has been for decades at this point. meanwhile, the publicly traded unity has struggled to break even for most of its existence

You know what else isn't there yet? Unity, Unreal, Source, CryEngine... literally every commercial game engine requires development if you're actually looking to push hardware limits. They're just toolboxes.

Godot is no different, except that developers are going to be much more likely to release their changes publicly.