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did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

Good stuff! Some personal opinions: 1) IMO removing Blueprints isn't bad per se. There are great advantages to moving back to a pure text scripting language. But what sucks is that Verse is designed around crazy bullshit metaverse concepts which won't fit AAA gamedev or other customers (film, etc.)

2) While at Epic, complaining about all this, I asked if we'd offer UE5 long term support for customers hanging back, or if we'd make sure Verse could fulfill all/most UE5 use cases by, say, shipping a non-UEFN UE6 AAA game (maybe with a studio partner). Official reply to both was: "we don't know".

Yep. The technical uncertainty was one of the most frustrating parts of this. I really wish good luck to my old buddies still there.