Among Us dev predicts Unity fee "concessions" instead of reversal : gamedev

[-] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago

We can only assume this was all a negotiation tactic, where they start with an unreasonable position, and force devs to accept an imbalanced (but manageable) fee structure they would have rejected.

I say that, but I also assumed that is what Reddit was doing, but they went full steam towards stupid town, so ymmv.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Reddit just wanted to kill third party apps to serve more of their own ads, since third party apps could natively include an adblocker.

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago

"were seriously wondering if we can trust unity moving forward"

You can't. If you have to wonder you can't. Unity cooked their goose and showed that they are not your friends and will take every opportunity to fuck you over.

[-] mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

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[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Depending on the complexity of your game or project, it may be very expensive to switch engines.

[-] nous@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Staying on unity might also be very expensive depending on how all this resolves. Switching might be a cheaper option and worth at least looking at.

[-] ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Unlikely. Switching can take months to years to do, its just unrealistic to switch engines for a game already deep in production. Its an option to switch engines when you are working on a new title but having to rebuild the foundations of your game all over again is probably not worth it, when the time you are wasting doing that can just be invested on working a new project.

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