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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Launch the game offline. Which if you’ve ever done with a game made in the last 5 or so years and launching legitamitly, it is increasingly harder to do so.

I take my gaming laptop into work. I can launch older games without an internet connection, but stuff like red dead redemption 2 doesn’t like to start offline – presumably due to telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Copy-Paste from a reply about blocking the telemetry:

Possibly, but can you expect an entire userbase, potentially millions of people, to:

A) know about the problem

B) care enough to do something

And C) know how+be able to apply that block

Especially when there's no effect for end users whether it does or doesn't go through.

A significant portion of players won't bother. Enough that the ones that do don't really matter.