alt Hacker News> I address them as I come across them
You're already too late at that point, and you probably lost some players, that wanted to try your game and maybe would've even liked it.
And I'm not talking about gameplay logic bugs - I'm talking about issues caused by bad drivers or by not having intimate knowledge about the hardware.
> If you use Unity, you are putting your complete faith that Unity has perfectly optimized X low-level problem away at the engine level
Most major engines allow to bypass high-level abstractions either through scripts that access low-level systems (Unity) or by directly letting people modify the source code (Unreal Engine, Godot).
> I love being solely responsible for the defects in my games.
Players do not care about that.
> by directly letting people modify the source code (Unreal Engine, Godot).
Unreal is not open source, and while Godot is, I would wager 90% of its users never even look at the source code. It very specifically attracts people who want an easy way to make games without prior expertise.
> Players do not care about that.
Users don't care about much when it comes to software quality, honestly. They accept 20 FPS, slow loading, bug-riddled games that consume +20gb ram and +100gb more disk space than necessary. They may complain about a game if it gets bad enough, but they still buy and play those games. My games are significantly more optimized than most. They aren't perfect, but they don't need to be. They don't even need to be as optimized as I have made them, it's mostly just a point of pride and making the kind of software I want to see in the world. I think the only way you lose a player on technical points is if they literally cannot boot your game, but those issues plague engine games too. I had driver issues myself crashing on boot with an UE5 game two weeks ago.