Why are you all acting like this is some huge happening. Look at the immediate mass response to the new Unity decision from devs and players alike. Unity is not not going to stick with the changes. In a couple days max they'll go "uh actually nvm" and it'll all be a big nothingburger. Buy stock while it's low, I guess.
This has the potential to crash and fix the gaming industry.
90% of all the asset flip slop exists because of unity
You mean unreal.
unreal is genuinely the bigger retard magnet now because of the marketing they do. unity's trash reputation actually somehow loops around makes only devs that understand its perks home in on towards it. well used to. now no one wants to use this shit
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damn.
Are you fucking retarded no one is defending Unity
>stop complaining about things! It makes the company look bad! They're not going to keep the changes, pinky promise!
>but simultaneously the mass response is going to be what gets them to reverse the situation
this is contradictory to itself. You want people to stop acting like it's some huge happening, but also claim in the same post that they'll go "uh actually nvm" because of the backlash.
Who are you quoting? I just said this will turn out to be a nothingburger. That's all the post was.
is english not your first language or something
I am because it's going to kill talentless hacks that make itch.io games lmao
>good goy,,. only the finest AAA goyslop for you!
those people have been using godot for years though
A lot of indie game devs are already looking to switch to another engine. Unity had better work fast.
The real reason its a nothing burger how nothing to do with what OP says and more because they're dealing with unity pro pricing
https://blog.unity.com/news/pro-enterprise-new-pricing
this is how all companies work, introduce wild changes that are retarded and then walk back while keeping the REAL change lowkey
God forbid we have some fun pretending we can bankrupt a developer by repeatedly installing and uninstalling a game.
Explains why a lot of those patreon scam games are jumping ship to unreal 5
Quick QRD?
CEO pushed out a Change to make devs pay 20 cents PER INSTALLATION.
Considering that gay sold all his stocks before announcing this it is 100% some type of scheme.
>unity releases a statement that they are altering the deal for everyone who has ever used unity to develop anything
>now if the developer gains 200k revenue and have 200k installs, they are going to be charged 20 cents for every time a user installs the game and the telemetry informs unity about it
>telemetry doesn't track whether it's the same user installing because it was never intended for that (the suits were probably just told it was vaguely possible so they ham on the concept)
>this means there's no way to track which installs are even legitimate and which ones are timmy's python script sending the packet to their servers 30000x times an hour
>unity admits they themselves can't really know for sure so they will just make a good guess at it and ask you to just trust them
>this means unity is essentially telling every huge game company that uses unity (blizzard, nintendo, the genshin impact guys, etc.) that they need to pay them some number they basically cooked up from thin air or they will sue them
>small devs totally freaking out because it applies to EVERY game ever released, so even if they don't want anything to do with this, they have to get ready for the legal shenanigans when they are poor as shit already
>comedy ensues as people find more and more holes in the plan, aside from the big obvious ones that already make it unfeasible and retarded
>the CEO who came up with this idea will probably be forced to resign and walk off with a golden parachute payout (which was his plan all along)
releases a statement that they are altering the deal for everyone who has ever used unity to develop anything
How can you retroactively change a contract?
because you're american and you think you can fight it out in court
grim
Not sure how correct this is, but some anon in other thread mentioned that Unity engine is technically a subscription-based service, not a product and thus they can change shit on the fly. You don't want to pay for installs of previously released Unity games? Just cancel your "subscription" by pulling your games from the market.
>You don't want to pay for installs of previously released Unity games? Just cancel your "subscription" by pulling your games from the market.
lol
how is thos even leagal
lmao even
>you can appreciate we won't go into a lot of detail
When has anyone appreciated that?
>know you're getting bought out
>sell shares a few days in advance
>get bought out
>by an israeli adware company
>they immediately want to start taking people or packaging their malware into unity.
lol no, they're just going to double down
source you retarded little moron monkey boy?
the constant retardation of these companies in the past decade
Why buy stocks when they're low when they're going to absolutely tank tomorrow.
Even if they paddle back this shows Unity is not to be trusted and only a fool would risk their entire business on it.
Who the fuck is going to trust them after this shit lol
>Why are you making such a big deal out of this?
>Surely they'll change their decision because people are making such a big deal out of this
Anon, are you a little slow?
Even if Unity walks this back tomorrow most devs will still abandon Unity just because simply suggesting something like that means you cannot be trusted.
>most devs will still abandon Unity just because simply suggesting something like that means you cannot be trusted.
Hahahahaha that's implying that most unity devs have the talent to port something to another engine or make their own after this
they wouldn't be using unity if they had talent retard
Mods will fix i-ACK
you now remember this
cuuute
sauce?
monster girl island, it's a unity game
Well that's what everyone said about Netflix's anti account sharing measure and yet
here we are. with those same measures implemented, and with other streaming services considering using them too.
>Well that's what everyone said about Netflix's anti account sharing measure and yet
Biggest target audience of netflix are women
the difference is that unity is trying to take on several companies that are worth billions or even trillions, like nintendo. unity's plan is to try to shake them all down for money while providing no service for that money or leverage for them to do so, other than the threat of legal action
the similarity being a lack of customer respect
If anything this is an absurd amount of consumer respect. It's putting the fate of the company in the hands of the consumers.
This is a corporatist nightmare: power in the hands of the consumer.
I decided to use UE5 instead of Unity because of the scummy shit the CEO said regarding microtransactions and his investment in malware companies. Having integrity pay off for once
Even if they walk back the damage is already done and lots of devs won't trust unity again and will jump the ship at the nearest opportunity. Unity showed that they are the type to retroactively alter the deal, no one in their right mind will do business with them. Not to mention, even unity's higherups are getting ready to escape and are selling stocks, this was probably their last attempt at making a squeeze. Unity's a dead man walking.
Bro if i sell over a million copies of my game (which i will because its scifi minecraft with rpg elements) they'll be talking a couple cents of every sale; at 40 million sales (predicted) that's like 500k
>piece of shit CEO sold 2000 shares right before this knowing full well how shit these decisions would be
They're not rolling anything back, it's all part of the "plan"
They sold many more. Rats are escaping the sinking ship.
And they'll buy them back when they tank the price.
Isn't this considered insider trading? How is this legal?
>he thinks they care if it's legal
>he thinks the law applies to rich people
You could say they were working in unity
Carlosvolcano!
what's the difference with selling vs selling then destroying the company to them?
>pirate unity game
>install 80 billion times
>company goes bankrupt
based unity killing themselves and gay indie """developers""" at the same time
>charge my own reinstall fee
>profit
It doesn't matter what they do at this point, nobody can trust them anymore, only a complete idiot would choose to make a new game with Unity
>only a complete idiot would choose to make a new game with Unity
who do you think uses Unity to make vidyagames with
I don't forsee this new policy sticking around. However I also forsee a lot of devs not sticking around anymore as well even if it's walked back.
In the end, its all about money.
You think so?
Doesn't matter. Nothing matter.
>mobile games fed this monster
that money should be seized and returned to the victims
lolno, it's the opposite
those companies never saw a dime from the big gacha bucks, because everything was on a flat fee before
that flat fee environment is EXACTLY what allowed f2p and gacha games to thrive, because it was far easier to make money through microtransactions and updating a single game than releasing multiple games
that environment is EXACTLY why they are throwing a schizo tantrum after seeing how much money they lost on from gacha
>those companies
what companies? Scum sucking gachas that prey on children and gamblers? We never needed them
No dev I their right mind is going to start a new project with Unity whether they back out or not.