Literally, who cares about Godot teams political view or whatever, Godot isn't a community it's a game engine
Godot already follows "YOUR" core idea
Why though? This is literally the only reason Redot exists, you can't close your ears to all the useless noise that doesn't affect you in any way.
It's like saying "Isaac newton was a proven violent evil mass murderer" and then just scrapping his laws of motion (copy pasting it) then just giving it a new name and a fancy logo, now what change did that really make?
Fair question, thank you (in earnest). I believe those who forked the engine did so in good faith, regardless of what led to that decision. There’s a post (and a YouTube video of the same content) that explains why they actually made the fork.
I don’t close my ears to others’ opinions, but I do choose who I do business with. If I disagree with what they stand for, I choose to do business elsewhere.
As for the engines themselves: I refuse to support an engine (or by extension, those who use it as a platform) that takes a political stance, regardless of the stance, when its entire purpose is to make my computer go brrrrrrr. It’s literally that simple.
What really drove me away was seeing how much Godot’s PR and W4 Games have leaned into politics and even silenced people who prefer to keep politics out of the conversation. An engine isn’t a person. I pay for a tool to serve its purpose. If that tool decides its opinions are more important than its function, it loses a lot of value to me.
Look up my old moniker on r/godot (u/kamikazecopilot), I was a staunch supporter of Godot. That is until the moderators started to ban anyone who disagreed with the post on Twitter then banned discord users who asked why. It was a big thing and I won't support Godot even though I still love the engine as a tool.
Name one Godot Engine feature or development shift that has been affected in any way by their political views, If for example a famous musician suddenly turns out to be a horrible person, it doesn't change the product, if it was good in the beginning it's still good in the end.
So unless Redot provides with more and better features which helps me develop video games, why am I supposed to use it? convince me that this helps me.
Because in all honesty the "We have a different view/opinion" is not good enough, the quality of your product is NOT based on your political views or opinions, it only is if it directly affects your product.
"Redot is a free open source game engine capable of creating 2D and 3D games that's made for"
The only difference I see here between Redot and Godot is two letters, and I wasn't partaking in the Godot community anyways, so the only change apart from that would be 2 letters, an icon and a color.
Please pay attention to what you are replying to. If politics are irrelevant to the quality of a project then Godot should not be enforcing a political echo chamber within theirs, denying commits or feedback from people they don't like. That was the entire reason it got forked. What you get with Redot is a development team actually interested in working on it instead of a bunch of CoC-abusers that contribute absolutely nothing and waste time. This perhaps isn't obvious to a casual end user or someone who doesn't work in software, but the trustworthiness and reliability of the people you base your commercial work on matters a lot. You seem to be aware that politics has no place here, so I have no idea why you think Redot is the problem.
I can't help but to notice you didn't answer my question, you can't say that the Godot team has contributed nothing brother XD, they literally made Godot and and Redot. I'll ask you the same question again "Name one Godot Engine feature or development shift that has been affected in any way by their political views"
Their political views has nothing to do with their game engine, neither has it affected it at all, if suddenly I had to pay for Godot or have lgbtq flags forced on my screen now that would've been different.