Submitted 1 year ago by realcaseyrollins to gaming@beehaw.org
https://twitter.com/unity/status/1703547752205218265
@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city Regardless, the developers are now increasingly wary about "their" tools not being truly theirs anymore. Same goes for most of the infrastructure they rely on - social media, storage, distribution, the tools they use to design their assets with...
"We apologize for the confusion" is the "I'm sorry you're angry" of corporate communication.
“Oops. Sorry we got caught.”
honestly, i’m getting tired of board members of corporations just making shitty decisions to try and squeeze more money out of their customers rather than trying to learn what about their product appeals to their customer base in the first place. notice how it’s never enough to look at revenue over the years and say, “this is enough, let’s keep this steady.”
That's just the system. This is what happens when people confuse commerce with capitalism: They think that capitalism is being rewarded for doing commerce better. Instead, capitalism is about leveraging ownership of property and underpaying workers in order to get money for free.
And the thing about money is that it's really just a proxy for power. When you only have enough of it to eek out a comfortable life (or less), you don't really notice, because all of your power goes in to achieving or maintaining that acceptably good life (or hanging on for dear life trying to survive), but once your needs are comfortably and handidly met, money is entirely about being able to make other people do whatever you want. And the more money you have, the more things you can get them to do, or the more of them that you can get to do what you want.
And if you've managed to be one of the lucky ones who just get free money for owning shit, then you have the power at your fingertips to try to grow your power over others exponentially, while still doing no honest work in your days. And if you're a shitty person who gets off on all of this, that's exactly what you'll do.
The wealthy are insufferably greedy leeching assholes because one does not become wealthy without being greedy, leeching off of others, and being an insufferable asshole.
Tell me you're poor without telling me you're poor
Not quite sure why they would think there was any confusion. People read the new terms, saw they were a complete and utter cash grab and then spoke up about it. I have no idea how anyone that has the means to switch to another engine isn’t doing that right now. Whatever Unity says next will not be trusted.
All developers should continue to move to other platforms. Do not trust anything unity says.
Aw gee guys we are soooo sowwyyyy that we hurt your feefees
I know what the implication here is but I feel like I should ‘pray they don’t alter it any further?’
I think they will make it slightly better, but not by much.
With designs once people are used to the altered scheme to reintroduce the original scheme
Are they also going to alter their stance that Planned Parenthood and a children’s hospital aren’t charity?
What?
Unity said Planned Parenthood and Children’s Hospital aren’t legitimate charities
Still apologizing for the confusion 🥴
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TGames@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Unity was sold on no revenue share, just paying for your dev seats. That they not only tried to weasle out of this by inventing an “runtime fee” but also applied it to already complete games is a fundermental break in trust. There’s no ammout of walking it back that can fix that unless they’re going to fire anyone who thought this was a good idea. Which of course they’re not going to do meaning things like this remain in the table.