Weird, I always have thought unity was getting a share of each sale.
“This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees
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#92So, Unity is now more expensive than for example AutoCAD and has a royalty fees. I see a bright future for Unity Technologies...
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#93The old story... Be friends to the community, get everybody to believe you then increase prices when everybody is locked in. This time we have an answer: Godot.
Missing ton of console exporting, Xbox Series, One, WinGDK, PS4, PS5, etc. And sure there might be some beta out there but we need proper support :)
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#94> but the fact they are applying this retroactively to every game every made in Unity that also seems like it should not be legal no matter what you put in your TOS, at least in some jurisdictions it probably isn't (in the same way that e.g. conditional auto-termination contracts are no actually auto-terminating in many jurisdictions even if it's written in the contract)
Not sure you read the article. Unity explicitly states they are NOT applying this retroactively.
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#952nd time I'm saying this...2023 is the year of the greedy CEO.
Unity has lost $455 million dollars in the first 6 months of the fiscal year 2023. They lost $919 million in 2022. I don't think they have ever made a profit. Companies are not charities; they exist to make money, and Unity doesn't by a mile. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810806/000181080623...
Post-IPO unity may not have made a profit (although that link of yours shows positive EBITDA in recent quarters), but they only went public in 2020.
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#96Re: “This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees
#972nd time I'm saying this...2023 is the year of the greedy CEO.
Unity has lost $455 million dollars in the first 6 months of the fiscal year 2023. They lost $919 million in 2022. I don't think they have ever made a profit. Companies are not charities; they exist to make money, and Unity doesn't by a mile. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810806/000181080623...
So what? They're doing classic bait & switch.
The fact that they weren't profitable just makes it even more pathetic.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> no fault of my own You locked yourself into proprietary-licensed solution and invited this upon yourself.
Let's see what would happen if for example Apple started charging $5/month or better yet per 1 use, any Apple services on all iPhones. Starting 2024.
You're not thinking big enough. It's time for win32 to pull its weight.
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#99The old story... Be friends to the community, get everybody to believe you then increase prices when everybody is locked in. This time we have an answer: Godot.
An alternative engine (no matter how good) doesn't solve vendor lock-in. Gamedev is a cutthroat business. You can't afford a rewrite. Even for new productions, you can't throw away engine experience and start retooling. I expect backlash.
It does when said vendor is an open source community.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I had to guess, Gogot is also the reason why they are scrambling to cash-out before it's too late.
Yes, They probably run some cash numbers internally and realized that forcing everyone to pay would be the only plausible way to make money
Big if true.