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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)

Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they're switching engines on social media.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This happened to a crafting/cutting machine and its software a while back.

The company wanted to start charging once you hit a miniscule upload threshold, forcing you to pay if you wanted to upload more than, say, 20 images per day.

Folks who already owned the machine were furious that they'd essentially be limited out of their own machine, when there was previously no extra charges for use.

The company rolled back their statement and stated that they'd only start charging people who purchased & registered their machines after a certain date. Older users would not be charged.

Even so, after the shit they pulled, people no longer recommend that specific machine/brand/company anymore because of their nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Name and shame!

[–] Dkarma 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guessing cricut.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You got it!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cricut.

Also you can't even use the machine offline! They force you to use their absolutely terrible software and I have to "calibrate" it myself to make things turn out how it's supposed to! (eg. centered cuts, alignment, etc.)

If I would have known it was this bad, I wouldn't have gotten one in the first place. I make it work but goddamn, so much of it is absolute garbage!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any chance you've found alternatives to the machine, or its software? I still see these mentioned here & there in crafting discussions as good tools, but I wouldn't want to be dependent on their software even if the machines are good tbh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't vouch for it myself, but I've heard great things about the "Silhouette" machines! Definitely check them out to see if they could meet your needs.

[–] drphungky 3 points 1 year ago

It's crazy there isn't an open source community around it. 3d printing and CNC have been democratized, it's wild that printing and cutting vinyl hasn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the pointer! I'll have to give'em a look!