“only” ^^
Jup this two little points are the problems for everything.
I’ve thought about it several times and I remember a couple of similar threats in the last 2-3 years. We also had some users who were willing to pay more than $2 per month for online functions. 4ian said money for (multiplayer)server is not really the problem.
But yes, we cannot pay for professional people who otherwise work for $30+/h with donations.
It would be great if GD gets bigger in the future and some ideas would be really cool but as an itchio or steam clon we don’t have a chance. They are companies with employees or large communitys where every user can also program because their engine requires it.
And the desire… for uploading your assets and games, there are still a lot of good opportunities with many visitors.
It won’t be profitable, but it may not have to be. 99% of GD games are not profitable or cost-covering.
The good thing is, it’s open source, everyone can do what they want and not what is absolutely necessary. Example Introducing GDMod
Maybe one day a dev wakes up and thinks, yey this month i like PHP more than JS and then we have things outside of the editor itself. Also contributions from people who are not the top5 main team, GD has already had several times.