Hello and good morning everyone! Since what happened with Unity’s stumble with John Riccitiello, have you noticed a change in the preference of companies? Whether they are large or small companies or businesses?I’ve seen that job offers are asking for the use of Unreal more, or mentioning it more lately, I’d like to know your opinion!
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Since Unity's issues involving John Riccitiello, there seems to be a noticeable shift in company preferences, affecting both large and small businesses.

Unity is a joke?

The short answer is yes, the longer answer is “yes, for the time being”. Unity is to large of a company to be permanently damaged by the decision. They have a pervasive reputation online for being indie dev friendly. New aspiring devs will find that and the wealth of tutorials and bring the number back up. Many new devs won’t consider or even care about the issue if or when they run into it. It just the current job market time will tell if it lasts.

I know for a fact some game studios are keeping it but also exploring Godot as options. (AAA). Be a long time before it becomes main stream but they’re looking

Simply said, no. The whole kerfuffle did some reputation damage predominantly among free users who comment a lot but barely put some amateur project in a second-rate store.
Unity is still the top game engine out there and with the highest demand from large companies, even with the fee, it makes more business sense to large companies, and even for small studios because the limits for revenue before you need to pay have gone up to 200K from 100K of the past AND no need to demonstrate any splash screen anymore.
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Panic is over, everyone is back to using Unity

Avoid it like the plague. Better to learn UE.