Comment on Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz

• chameleon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think this one will work. Most of these games are already "multihomed" on different ad networks and display the one that is most profitable to them at any given time, or a semi-random mixture. The differences in profitably aren't that huge, and it will get even worse if advertisers run away from Unity too. Unity is making an absolute killing from their ads division, and this is now being threatened.

  And who are the advertisers? Other game devs. The whole mobile game advertising scene is one gigantic ouroboros with the ad platforms cutting off a huge portion in the middle. If you leave, you're going to both stop showing ads and stop your advertising there.

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  • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ouroboros

    Nice word for “circlejerk”…

    cutting off a huge portion in the middle

    …but this imagery is disturbing.

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    • chameleon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah on second thought it's maybe a bit more vivid than intended, but it fits what I think is going to happen. Below the top 1-2% of mobile games, it's one big pile of endlessly recycled advertising money. Spend a million in ads, make $800k in ads and $500k in microtransactions, and the $300k is where you have to pay everything else from. Unity is about to bite into that hard and doesn't care if it leaves behind some wounds.

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    • OrnatePotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hence, ouroboros.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven’t play games with ads in years, but O remember getting a lot of Christian ads, like Bible verses and such. It was even worse that regular buy shit ads imo.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wanted to add a scathing remark about “shoving your in our pious face!” but it practically writes itself.

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• Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But hey, at least they didn’t give it a set end date; from the very start of their “strike” the reddit mods couldn’t stay away from their unpaid powertrips and leave their octogenerian mothers’ basements for more than 2 days, and instantly folded at a single empty threat to take away the only thing in their lives that gives them purpose and makes them feel like they wield power over others.

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don't shove us all under the same rug. I packed my bags, shred my old comments and posts and went into the Fediverse.

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    • Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You were the exception not the rule

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      • DaGeek247@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nope. Content creators, the ones doing all the talking on reddit, definitely left. Check out this graph of posts per day on r/askreddit

        Attachment: media.kbin.social ↗

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    • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t shove us all under the same rug. I packed my bags, shred my old comments and posts and went into the Fediverse.

      There’s dozens of us. DOZENS!

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  • ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m confused about what you want.

    Mods literally got replaced by reddit because they refused to capitulate.

    I’m not a fan of reddits choices, but if I was deeply involved in a community I’d consider staying to be part of that community still.

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  • alignedchaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Written like someone who wasn’t actually paying attention to the subreddits during that time

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  • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s true. Although, having that limit probably got more of them to participate. So while the impact was short, it was more noticeable.

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• Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With the difference there are money on the table this time

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  • Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And they know precisely what’s at stake, and that in any case continuing to use an engine now run by dangerous morons intent on destroying it for a quick buck will not be an option, as we all know Unity will strive for its stated goal of screwing them over like this, be it suddenly and shamelessly like they’re hoping to do or by slowly boiling the frog over many years. And then those devs would lose everything.

    The devs can’t afford to fold. The other forum’s powermods folded because they not only could’ve afforded to, but also because upon realizing just how expendable they were, they didn’t want to risk losing the source of their god complex. That, and given that site’s users’ history of [youtu.be/hi14dP5Rdm0?si=tS_PWBxklvxoAsM0](bringing feathers to knife fights) their failure to enact the change they wanted was hardly surprising.

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