Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle
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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle - Lemmy.world
Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle::Even though
the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial
new fee policy, the damage is done.
We’re here on lemmy and mastodon, but Reddit and twitter still have waaaay more users. Unities move has boosted the popularity of other (open source) alternatives, sure, and if I was a game dev I would transition, but most of the devs and studios are going to need a lot more incentive to abandon the tool they spend decades getting to know
They’ll see longtime customers start to divest, I’m sure. I’d imagine most of the damage done was to their future new customer numbers. Anyone starting a project today would be pretty foolish to even consider Unity, and they’ll feel that more and more going forward. The death rattle’s begun.