• teft
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    531 year ago

    Why couldn’t someone set up a script to install, uninstall, and reinstall Unity games on a loop? That would fuck with their numbers hardcore.

      • wolfshadowheart
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        131 year ago

        Right but if it’s something that’s affecting every single creator then why would anyone continue to want to use Unity

        • @Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          The only reason people will continue using Unity is because they’ve already made )or are in the process of making) a game using it and switching to something else would waste massive amounts of time and effort. Unity is depending on this - this is basically them squeezing everything out of existing customers without regard for long term growth.

          Remember, the whole idea here is that Unity is demanding payments for already existing games. They clearly don’t care about whether people keep using Unity for new games in the future; the executives who made this decision will have cashed out and will be long gone by the time all the existing Unity games in the pipeline are done and things dry up.

          • @hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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            141 year ago

            They will try to sell based on future payments owed, or projected earnings. Then they will be sued by a big guy for breach of contract, having changed the terms without consent.

            Then the money will disappear. Already, the engine will be abandoned. Unity is dead now.

            Foss is available and with the programming community now incentivised to use it, it should do well. That might be their play. They knew the end was nigh.

            • pirate
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              21 year ago

              What’s the best FOSS alternative to Unity that you know of, if any?

              • @hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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                21 year ago

                I don’t develop games but from reading Godot seems ready for mainstream. I use blender for 3d production in industry. It’s also Foss and powerful.

                • pirate
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                  21 year ago

                  Thanks for the thoughts. I stumbled upon Godot in this thread as well. Looks interesting!

    • @ExceedinglyPanWoofer
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      121 year ago

      If I’m reading this right, it isn’t even the real numbers they’re working with. It’s their “proprietary data model.”