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Ford James's avatar

GamesRadar also has a lengthy feature interviewing a bunch of devs. It is completely astounding that nobody high up within Unity considered how severe this backlash would be. Apparently lots of staffers flagged concerns, but they were all ignored. Madness.

Rich's avatar

Oh yeah that's a good piece, cheers. I saw someone speculate on Xitter that this is all because Genshin Impact is made in Unity, the implication being that they can't leave a wildly successful F2P game alone without figuring out a way to get their cut. Who knows?

Boomer's avatar

A load of game devs in a Discord I'm in are talking about how this is Godot's moment to shine! It feels like such a seismic shift in one announcement.

Lanah Tyra's avatar

Thank you for summing it up, only saw some angry posts on Twitter but didn't have time to check out the whole story. It's absolute madness. Saw people talking about rewriting their half done game in another engine because they don't want to put up with this.

Boomer's avatar

I know, right!

Apparently the break clause in contracts with Unity is shorter than the time before this kicks in, so anyone with a game currently in development using Unity will just be hit anyway.

It really is unfortunate as Unity has done a lot for smaller developers and education, so I hope this misstep is reconsidered or at least rolled out in a more considered way.

One counterpoint I'd seen is that it's an effort to extract more value from larger developers and to further support low-volume games, but the whole approach probably needed a bit more workshopping beforehand!

Lanah Tyra's avatar

I agree the idea itself wouldn't be bad, but it definitely needed a different approach, consultation with developers and proper planning with all the details, not just announce it like this without them even being able to answer questions. Sounds like my own workplace tbh, management coming up with ideas they think are clever but even a 1st line support analyst like me can see that it's not going to work and it's bleeding from more wounds than we have bandages for...

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