7 minutes ago, JoeJ said:

I dare to claim i could go through UE4 source and there should be nothing where my math skill is insufficient to understand how it works

I ever not need to look to its source to know why same it will not work for my tasks.

7 minutes ago, Oberon_Command said:

Work experience is more important than having any degree, unless you're very junior and have little work experience.

Im not from North America. And here is other realities. You can not have a any "work expirience" without degree, becouse you just can not be hired to it work without required qualification that require it degree. And it critical (for many fields is a disaster critical) demand.

1 minute ago, Greedy Goblin said:

Out of pure fascination I would love to know where Fulcrum is from..

Im from Ukraine

43 minutes ago, Oberon_Command said:

and I've never heard of a government setting down a law that software developers have to have a particular qualification.

It depend of field. For example web dev that not related to serve a goverment and financical institutions is not regulated. But for other fields, especially FA it strongly regulated demands to certification of manufacturing. And its really disaster criticaly. Same as for examle disaster critical level of qualification of welder that produce tanks that works under gas pressure. And of cource banks and so on can not get his accounting software certified by national bank unless it developed and served by personel with required qualification. And so on. Again - anybody who will claim that to design a reliable plane wing, for example, qualification/education is not required will be found crazzy or ever sabateur. But what difference with designing and implementing a software that will be used for designing its wing? Really developmnt of complexive software involve much more specific math than any other engineering and so on design.

And related to simulations games/engins development (that usually a successfull gamedev companies here made) it required not less then for real-world FA and CAD/CAM software. Becouse gaming worlds usualy pretend to be a most complete (but less precesious) simulation of real-world, so use algos of anything that related to FA, CADs, scientific phisic processes simulations and so on, that required to be plugged into one team and work realtime on very weak hardware(in comparsion with real-word software equipment per simulated/controlled object). So gamedev companies looking for a top FA/CAD/scientific developers (here it able to offer much better salary to developers than local real-world industry related companies, unlike on West) and 5 year university degree is a mast-have demand of its companies ever for juniors. Of cource thay have positions not related to development directly, like a testers, support teams and so on that don't have so strict demands of degree.

1 hour ago, Fulcrum.013 said:

You can not have a any "work expirience" without degree, becouse you just can not be hired to it work without required qualification that require it degree.

Ok, that may be true where you are, but it isn't in a lot of other places. Case in point, the OP who started this conversation does not have a degree but is already employed.

Please keep in mind that your personal experiences are not universally applicable, and that your personal opinions are just that; opinions rather than facts.