Unity's oldest community announces dissolution

Post by eevo » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 9:46 PM UTC

shmatt wrote: post #62

kdottt wrote: post #5

"More importantly, we've seen how easily and flippantly an executive-led business decision can risk bankrupting the studios we've worked so hard to build, threaten our livelihoods as professionals, and challenge the longevity of our industry. The Unity of today isn't the same company that it was when the group was founded, and the trust we used to have in the company has been completely eroded." Profoundly sad, and c…

I don't know how much people know or have heard about ironSource. It's kind of an open secret in Israel on how they built a company to profit by building what is essentially malware (installers disguised as OEM while they're really adding extra trackers to your computer). They always paid 25% more than most of the other tech companies, but still had issues recruiting because it takes a special kind of person to be wi…

Post by eropple » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

jameshart wrote: post #174

follower wrote: post #86

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That would be an issue with e.g. GPL-licensed game engine but not an Open Source licensed one (e.g. MIT). Obligatory relevant Godot-related links: * https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.1/tutorials/platform/conso... * https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-... * https://w4games.com/2023/08/06/w4-games-unveils-w4-consoles-... Couple of Godot-based games available on console: * https://en.wikipedia.or…

Providing these links without context, after claiming that MIT licensed engines won’t have any issues, sort of implies that open source engines can be used fine to target consoles. The fact developers have been able to ship Godot games on console doesn’t help much unless those developers are willing to share whatever proprietary engine-to-console-SDK-interface code they wrote. Unity and Unreal, in contrast, will happ…

Post by berniedurfee » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 10:05 PM UTC

taylodl wrote: post #121

gameman144 wrote: post #104

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As an example here, my father and grandfather used to swear by Craftsman tools. No matter the context, if there was a Craftsman version, they'd go for it because they implicitly trusted the quality. Then the Craftsman brand downshifted its production quality to compete in price and their reliability fell through the floor. Now my family will skip over Craftsman entirely even if it's competitive in price, since the br…

Lowe's supposedly honors the Craftsman lifetime warranty. I haven't tried it, last time I needed to use the warranty was 30 years ago when in the middle of some car repair job I was doing I took the busted wrench into Sears, still dressed in my grimy clothes I was wearing and covered in grease, I handed them the broken wrench and they simply handed me a new one. No questions asked, no paperwork. They handed me a new…

Post by VladimirGolovin » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

withinboredom wrote: post #164

wolverine876 wrote: post #158

> Over the past few years, Unity has unfortunately shifted its focus away from the games industry and away from supporting developer communities. Following the IPO, the company has seemingly put profit over all else, with several acquisitions and layoffs of core personnel. Many key systems that developers need are still left in a confusing and often incomplete state, with the messaging that advertising and revenue ma…

A common strategy taught in MBA school in the US, is to “hire a bunch of assholes to push non-dedicated people out of the org; then fire the assholes and hire actually good people.” This was nearly 15 years ago since I learned about it in class, I don’t remember if there is a name for it. I just remember thinking “this can’t be real.” I wonder if people are idiotically applying the same thing to the marketplace.

Post by duped » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 10:08 PM UTC

TylerE wrote: post #18

dylan604 wrote: post #8

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i remember back when Avid decided they were no longer going to offer a Mac version of their NLEs because Apple's new machines were only going to have 3 expansion slots. while admittedly, there were probably a much smaller number of affected users than the Unity decision, it did cause a huge amount of turmoil. urban legend has people dumping their Avid stations on the doorstep of the Avid offices. Avid survived. Unity…

Avid is still around, but it's not looking very healthy. They've fired whole dev teams - one of whom was largely hired by a competitor, who have now developed a competing project that is eating Avid alive in that (fiarly niche) space.