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Why's it always end up being fucking ads?

I hate late stage capitalism. I want off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.

Don’t you just love when a company creates a problem just to go and try to sell the solution?

Game devs: "No thanks, we're waiving the fees by using a different engine."

Lol nope. Not even fucking close. You’re gonna die, Unity. You have only yourself to blame.

Screw this. Boycott unity.

The conspiracy theorist in me says Unity planned this whole thing out to get less resistance on this thing they actually wanted to roll out; announce a super shit change that will intentionally outrage everybody, then say “ok, we won’t do it if you agree to use this other shitty model instead”.

Anyways, big shoutout to Godot for existing as an open-source alternative.

Hey remember that time Unity bought IronSource so they could integrate ads more aggressively? Unity stopped being a game engine at some point they're just an ads company now

There should be a law against offering something for free for a long time, until many other businesses rely on it then make it pay to a point of breaking all those businesses. It’s one thing changing the price of a product that’s customer facing but if you market to other businesses that’s not okay. I guess it’s up to businesses to look in the contract for a clause that states that the product will be free forever or that they need X time warning before making it pay.

This is such a dumb move.

Forget about ethics for a minute, if there is an alternate option that doesn't cost as much money then developers would obviously make use of that option so in any environment where alternate options exist companies have a limit of how obnoxious they can be and get away with it.

Somehow unity forgot that Unreal and Godot exist.

I’m pretty sure this is just unequivocally worse. This is how Ads end up in paid games. Unity is speed running their complete collapse as the dominant player in the market.

Elon Musk: speedruns enshittification on Xitter

Unity: "Hold my beer"

That's worse, you fucking assholes.

AppLovin? What kind of a stupid name is that? What, are they trying to be an Irish R&B singer?

Time to polish off my unreal dev skills, something tells me those jobs about to be hot.

Unity have yet to discover that nothing happens quietly on the internet.

And so continues the downward spiral of the enshitification of video games.

Fuck unity. Use anything but unity.

How many times are developers going to put up with being used as sticks for one group of rich assholes to whack a different group of rich assholes with before we start supporting open platforms?

Fuck you, Unity.

say this move is an "attempt to destroy" Unity's main competitior in this field: AppLovin.

This is the best advertisment ever. I've messed around in Unity a few times and would've recommended to people interested in a framework. But I guess I got a new platform to talk about.

And there's the two-step. Don't come right out with what you want. Come out with a bad option, then switch over to the option you wanted when everyone complains.