I'm ootl, what's going on?
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Unity lost any good will they built by changing their pricing to per install and making go into effect retroactively. Indie developers especially are up in arms.
Unity changed the license, so developers have to pay a fee for every install of games made with Unity. Notice that it's "install". Not "sale". Not "download".
They claim they won't count installs from demos, cracks, charity bundles, re-installs, etc, but absolutely no one trusts them at this point. Several devs have said they're switching engine, despite the large cost of that.
Or in the case of Unity for Web: any time the game is loaded.
Retroactively?
In the sense that it applies to games already released, but not to previous installs. Allegedly. One of the main problems with all of this is that detecting only "valid" installs is a very hard problem, if not impossible. Unity's attitude seems to be that devs just have to trust their numbers.
Additionally, some devs are reporting that they've been offered a pass on all this bs, if they switch to Unity's own ad platform.
Familiar copypasta. What's the origin?
Not to be confused with capybara.
I want to ride the capybara bus
Saaaaame
I will happily confuse anything with a capybara. Need more wasserschwein in my life.
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/53s13hXBX8w the intro to Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
That would the only thing that could be worse: moving the Unity headquarters to Baltimore.
It has to be a joke, right? this can't be real lmao
Sorry to disappoint: I made this.
Are you John Riccitiello the CEO of Unity?
Yes
o7
Twist: You work at Unity.
This is a copypasta based heavily on Big Bill Hell's Cars which is the single greatest advertisement to ever exist.
It has to be, at least a couple dozen Fuck You's got left out