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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The reality is they’ve shown their hand.

  Why anyone would continue to do business with them is insane to me. You’re setting yourself up for future failure.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why anyone would continue to do business with them is insane to me.

    1. you have a mature stack built entirely on the engine, that stacks the only thing that powers your companies revenue, if that stack did not exist then you would fold quickly
    2. you probably have an entire company of experts in this engine, an deep knowledge-base that you are throwing away if you move away, your ability to have speed and agility is likely crippled until you get up to speed anywhere else. good luck affording to pay for that monumental shift in your company. 3, almost all the talent in the industry (at your level) is on unity engine, good luck hiring for $obscure_engine

    basically, it’s incredibly naive to just say “just switch, obviously they are bad, they will be bad in the future too so switch”. it shows deep ignorance. it’s worth trying to understand the situation before saying any of this stuff.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m saying that whole production concept is flawed. You’re at the mercy of a single company. You don’t need to explain it further than that. You’ve centralized and specialized too much. It’s naive to assume they aren’t going to squeeze developers again.

      Good luck to those who stay on Unity, you’re going to have a similar issue later down the line until they wear you out.

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      • Elderos@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is just reductionism. The post above yours went above and beyond to explain why they can’t just change the engine. For a lot of business it would mean bankruptcy now. So you understand that given the choice between bankruptcy now or maybe being squeezed again by Unity later, the latter is still more an attractive option, right?

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    • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This isn’t a normal scenario/ situation. This is an all hands on deck emergency, worst case situation. You cannot continue with unity under any circumstances. This is a pivot moment with unity endangering your whole existence, as well as showing their obsolescence. Anybody that sticks with unity now is setting themselves up for failure. This installation charge isn’t just bad for developers/ businesses, but consumers as well and consumers will need to avoid unity games. Unless you’re a dev or really into gaming, most people probably couldn’t even tell you what a game engine is or what their favorite games’ are built in. This will now force them to be conscience of unity games and to avoid them.

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• tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fact that it’s impossible to change game on an ongoing/completed game is exactly the reason why everyone is angry. This is distortion, simple, just like the example of car being charged for miles mentioned in the article. It’s no coincidence that games are advertised as “built on …” since game engine decides how the game is built.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the word you’re looking for is “extortion”.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The thing is that switching engines isn’t impossible, it is just an extreme amount of work.

    The sad reality is that sometimes projects aren’t meant to last, most don’t even reach fruition. And I know it can be a hard pill to swallow, but it is sometimes necessary to rebuild an entire project, or drop it completely.

    Whether that necessity is valid depends entirely on the developer.

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