All developers should continue to move to other platforms. Do not trust anything unity says.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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exactly, this is a non-apology. It's just the social media manager who come back to work after the weekend and is trying to mitigate the situation.
There's a chance that they will come out and say "ok we listened to the community, we don't want the 20 cents per install anymore, we want 15 cents"
BTW if they really have a tech that can distinguish pirated installs with a 100% success rate are and not just lying "trust our numbers, they're correct", they should monetize that, developers are paying much more for Denuvo.
"We apologize for the confusion" is the "I'm sorry you're angry" of corporate communication.
honestly, i'm getting tired of board members of corporations just making shitty decisions to try and squeeze more money out of their customers rather than trying to learn what about their product appeals to their customer base in the first place. notice how it's never enough to look at revenue over the years and say, "this is enough, let's keep this steady."
I’d even be fine with a bit of increase. Have to keep pace with inflation, make sure you’re making enough to keep all your workers’ wages worth the same this year as it was last year.
But they want MORE profit NOW NOW NOW at a much higher rate than needed to keep pace with inflation, and the money sure isn’t going to workers to keep their wages at pace with inflation.
They said kids who failed the marshmallow test (eat one marshmallow now or wait and get two? basically, a test of if you can do delayed gratification or not) were less likely to fail than kids who passed it. But it looks like the instant gratification MORE PROFIT NOW NOW NOW guys are winning. But only if you’re super rich.
and the fact that they tried to retroactively charge folks for using unity...like wtf cmon
Companies aren't run to earn profit based on goods and services generated anymore. They are investment vehicles for wealthy VC to use and abuse until they run them into the ground while they jump to the next disposable company. Someday this will result in no effective company existing anymore, but the investors don't care.
If governments were actually functioning they'd recognize this danger and crack down on this behavior because it weakens the country as a whole, but most of the politicians are already bought and paid for.
Not quite sure why they would think there was any confusion. People read the new terms, saw they were a complete and utter cash grab and then spoke up about it. I have no idea how anyone that has the means to switch to another engine isn't doing that right now. Whatever Unity says next will not be trusted.
Still apologizing for the confusion 🥴
Are they also going to alter their stance that Planned Parenthood and a children's hospital aren't charity?
What?
Unity said Planned Parenthood and Children's Hospital aren't legitimate charities
That's not how reputation work
Aw gee guys we are soooo sowwyyyy that we hurt your feefees
"Oops. Sorry we got caught."
Unity was sold on no revenue share, just paying for your dev seats. That they not only tried to weasle out of this by inventing an "runtime fee" but also applied it to already complete games is a fundermental break in trust. There's no ammout of walking it back that can fix that unless they're going to fire anyone who thought this was a good idea. Which of course they're not going to do meaning things like this remain in the table.
@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city Regardless, the developers are now increasingly wary about "their" tools not being truly theirs anymore. Same goes for most of the infrastructure they rely on - social media, storage, distribution, the tools they use to design their assets with...