ekZeppUnity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...đ
âOkay, okay⌠Letâs admit that our old idea of pi**ing all over your heads may have gone a little too farâŚ
So, hereâs the deal. We will pi** a bit on your left shoulder âŚBUT! But, but, but⌠It will be UPWIND!! SEE!? Upwind!!
So basically, youâll be missed most of the times! Basically like never get hit at all!â đ
DreamySweetDonât worry, 90% of our users wonât have to pay anything at all! Just ignore that like 50% are people who downloaded Unity to mess around for a bit and never made anything other than a âhello worldâ or similar.
Pikaway more than 50% lol
I was going to say 89% but thereâs a lot of asset flips on Steam.
thrakkerzogIâve pooped in your soup and removed the poop when you got angry. Youâre still gonna eat the soup, right?
morgan423Far too little, far too late. Even if this was the most glowing revision ever (it isnât, but even if it was), the trust is gone.
I know I wonât be using it. There is no guarantee that they wonât do something similar in the future.
And therein lies the rub.
Theyâve proven they canât be trusted. The people who devised and attempted to enact this plan - the exec team - have not gone anywhere, and they arenât going to. They have shown the industry who they are, and they clearly donât give a shit about business ethics or even legality (the AppLovin shit smells an awful fucking lot like anticompetitive market interference). They will definitely try something similar in the future.
They can just creep up the fee bit by bit and they can say, hey itâs not as bad as that runtime fee we announced in 2023
Not just that but what other new fee will they create and force on developers out of nowhere?
fair changes, but the ONLY way forward is to fire riccitello. i donât see how anyone can trust them again until that happens.
removal of the retroactivity piece will likely appease a large number of devs tho (dunno if itâll be the majority but that was the biggest wtf for me)
As thatâs what I want to see also.
But Spez is still Reddit CEO,
Bobby Kotik is still Blizzardâs CEOâŚ
I guess Riccitello will stay there for a while
MrPoopyButtholeThe unfortunate cushion of being a rich powerful asshole
lortySo this was the actual deal they were going for. Weâll see if the big players will stick with unity.
Considering the trust they've lost I don't think they've planned to do it this way. And if they didn't plan it, they assumed that their original plan wasn't going to result in much opposition, so that was the plan they wanted to go with.
This is standard business tactics.
Do not fall for it.
An absurd change followed by rolling it back to an âacceptableâ version that is still worse than their original position prior to the initial announcement.
This is a psychological manipulation.
And more to the point it ignores the issue of their violation of trust and consistency.
This is still precedent, they still showed their hand.
They want to have âpassive incomeâ at your expense.
Learn Godot.
circuitfarmerIt doesnât matter.
They showed their hand. They can and will change pricing after the fact. Who would want that kind of liability on their product?
sound of me spitting
Iâll wait until next year to see whatâs really gonna happen.
ultrasquidI still think its a terrible idea to start a new project in unity, but for developers who are too far into a project to reasonably switch without spending a lot of time or money (like Ultrakill or Silksong), this is great news as it means they can finish their games without having to worry about a passive income loss which could put them out of business.
Just the fact that theyâll spy on me when I install a game, makes me want to avoid buying unity games forward.
In fact, they certainly already have so e analytics, so yeah, Iâll avoid unity for my games from now onâŚ
âI am sorry,â Unity executive and industry veteran Marc Whitten said in the blog post.