Unity Controversy Unfolding

leechesBleechin · Sep 13, 2023

Anyone watching this cluster** unfold?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1701650081403842851

Tl;dr Unity will retroactively charge people 20 cents per install of a game. This includes runtime execution (online web games) and, although they deny it, they admit they can't get any more than generic information so most likely developers will also be charged for pirated copies. It gets even worse though, Read into it.

John from Lost relic games (you probably know him from all his tutorials and devlogs) goes into a good explanation of whats happening.

thescrrr · Sep 13, 2023

Ex EA CEO who sold his stocks before the news.

leechesBleechin · Sep 13, 2023

thescrrr said:
Ex EA CEO who sold his stocks before the news.

Yup thats another sketchy thing, 2 weeks before the anouncment

thescrrr · Sep 13, 2023

leechesBleechin said:
Yup thats another sketchy thing, 2 weeks before the anouncment

I’ve read somewhere that he once proposed that people should pay for the bullets they shoot in the game.

leechesBleechin · Sep 13, 2023

thescrrr said:
I’ve read somewhere that he once proposed that people should pay for the bullets they shoot in the game.

Yeah, paying for the reload mechanic. If you run out of bullets you should pay to reload in an FPS. Lmfao

thescrrr · Sep 13, 2023

leechesBleechin said:
Yeah, paying for the reload mechanic. If you run out of bullets you should pay to reload in an FPS. Lmfao

Dear nobody else interested in this besides us. Let’s get married!

UnusualSubstance · Sep 13, 2023

Awful move from Unity.

I think it's time to move to Godot engine.

MoonStarz · Sep 13, 2023

This is wild, something I don't get if is going to affect just recent games or all games regardles they were created or uploaded to any platform, if unity continues like that everyone will move and won't be able to get up again, charging 20 cents per install doesn't make sence, the next update will be 2 cents for every key press while coding and 5 cents for every click while coding how to destroy a bussines in one single tweet.

leechesBleechin · Sep 13, 2023

MoonStarz said:
This is wild, something I don't get if is going to affect just recent games or all games regardles they were created or uploaded to any platform, if unity continues like that everyone will move and won't be able to get up again, charging 20 cents per install doesn't make sence, the next update will be 2 cents for every key press while coding and 5 cents for every click while coding how to destroy a bussines in one single tweet.

Given its runtime too, Its probably not just games. If anyone used Unity to build software as well.

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