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[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Me, a hobbyist that never planned to sell anything I made: chortle my balls, Unity Tech!

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man I was just getting into game development and learning Unity.

I guess it's time to pivot into Unreal or Godot or something.

Anybody have recommendations?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Unreal has similar business model, so Godot.

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[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Common proprietary L

[–] AndreasChris@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Wow that is such a bad idea... I... I'm honestly speechless. Who thought if that? I mean...

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

So this will apply to games that have already been distributed on stores as well? How the fuck is such a change in the terms even legal?

I guess this will mostly impact F2P mobile devs since they will lose most money from installs. The good news is that Godot is more than capable for those types of games.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

That's pretty awesome of them to do such a great Godot advertisement

[–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

So... If the Unity's secret spyware and algorithm suddenly decides to count an update as a new installation, you suddenly get slapped with a huge bill. Especially if you release multiple small patches and your whole player base is counted multiple times.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago

Also piracy lmao

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Well this is bullshit but is there anything I as a non-developer can do about it?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

is there anything I as a non-developer can do about it?

Choose to play games written in Godot instead.

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Welp, guess it's time to uninstall Unity

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[–] NecoArcKbinAccount@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switch to Godot or FTEQW, screw Unity.

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[–] Raz@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wanna bet he secretly has a bunch of Epic Games stock?

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[–] colonial@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I can't decide if they'll get away with this or if they're committing corporate suicide.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this will insure I never use Unity. But at least they can collect from their existing games.

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