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Damage is done. No one is going to trust them going forward. Pretty amazing free PR for other engines.
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Yep. Pretty much the only thing that can save the Unity Engine is it being purchased by a totally different owner that guts a ton of the executive staff. It's probably not even worth saving given how good Unreal and Godot are.
 
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Yeah Unity is dead at this point. Anyone that has any choice in the matter that still decides to develop in Unity gets what they deserve.
 
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Unity Overhauls Controversial Price Hike After Game Developers Revolt

Maker of video-game development tools backtracks after customers threaten boycott
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semi rumor:
Under the tentative new plan, Unity will limit fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers making over $1 million and said that installations counted toward reaching the threshold won’t be retroactive, according to recording of the meeting reviewed by Bloomberg. Last week, Chief Executive Officer John Riccitiello delayed an all-hands meeting on the pricing changes and closed two offices after the company received what it said was a credible death threat.

One of the most controversial elements of the policy concerned how Unity would track installations of its software. Although the company first said it would use proprietary tools, Whitten said Monday management will rely on users to self-report the data.
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Why they didn't just make it 4% of revenue past 1million and forgo any installation-based pricing scheme is a good question. The answer that makes the most sense is because they are committed to spyware.

Presuming developers wouldn't flee Unity, the difference in total revenue between the new plan and the previous plan is massive, so anyone should just presume the previous revenue is their target and they're going to slowly boil devs alive over the next few years.
 
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Yep. Pretty much the only thing that can save the Unity Engine is it being purchased by a totally different owner that guts a ton of the executive staff. It's probably not even worth saving given how good Unreal and Godot are.
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Me and my business partner had just started using Unity to start work on our game a little over a month ago.

We scrapped it, will be using Godot instead.
 
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Have you thought about just using GameMaker? Godot is weird unless you've got someone really experienced with it.
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I'm pretty sure that would be a hard no, but I'll loook at it. The attraction of Godot was having engine access itself, as well as coding it in C++.
 
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“We fucked up on many levels..." Unity co-founder David Helgason wades into the Runtime Fee debacle

It's almost a week after Unity announced its controversial pricing scheme changes which will see the company take a 20 cents fee for every fresh install above a certain threshold on every ga...
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4% of revenue? What are margins like in the gaming industry? I couldn't find any good stats beyond most indie studios not making any money. I can easily imagine 4% of revenue being 50-100% of profits. That's still crazy.
 
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4% of revenue? What are margins like in the gaming industry? I couldn't find any good stats beyond most indie studios not making any money. I can easily imagine 4% of revenue being 50-100% of profits. That's still crazy.
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That's essentially Unreal Engine's terms, except 4% instead of 5%.
 
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