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  1. [4]
    Akir
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    Wow, what a way to maintain a community. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to sell an entire company without even telling it's customers or other shareholders that they are doing it?! God...

    Wow, what a way to maintain a community. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to sell an entire company without even telling it's customers or other shareholders that they are doing it?! God forgive that they might have at least told someone who they sold it to.

    3 votes
    1. [3]
      nothis
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      Weird, I had no idea Opera was in any position to buy other companies. On the other hand, $10 million sounds shockingly low. A couple of rather well known indie games were made in GameMaker. No...

      Update: Some sleuthing on the part of GameMaker users has turned up evidence of who the unnamed buyer is: Opera Software, the makers of Opera web browser.

      Weird, I had no idea Opera was in any position to buy other companies. On the other hand, $10 million sounds shockingly low. A couple of rather well known indie games were made in GameMaker. No Unity levels, but still.

      All in all, I'd rather see GameMaker in the hands of Opera than Playtech. Playtech is gambling trash, they probably got bored with managing software made for actual games and wanted to get rid of that burden.

      2 votes
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        knocklessmonster
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        I don't know what they were doing with it, but one of the major sponsors if Godot is actually a gambling company. I can see them actually using GameMaker to speed up development of virtual slots,...

        I don't know what they were doing with it, but one of the major sponsors if Godot is actually a gambling company. I can see them actually using GameMaker to speed up development of virtual slots, which could explain their initial interest.

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        1. nothis
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          Yea, there's big money in licensing game engines for gambling machines, Unity has a page just for that, for example. It's probably secretly one of the biggest cash cows, I don't know if numbers...

          Yea, there's big money in licensing game engines for gambling machines, Unity has a page just for that, for example. It's probably secretly one of the biggest cash cows, I don't know if numbers are public. I just can't imagine GameMaker being good for designing such systems.

          2 votes