After a complete disaster a while ago that saw many developers jump-ship, and cause a huge PR problem, Unity have now cancelled the Runtime Fee.
  • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
    92·
    2 months ago

    they’ve already lost so many devs who walked away or restructured their projects for Godot or other engines.

    They’re far too late on this. And their pricing is still too expensive.

    not the brightest bunch.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      56·
      2 months ago

      Brand is already in ruins. Their users weren’t gamers, who’d come running back if a new flashy game came out, it’s engineers. Developers who need to know long term that the choice they make will work for them in 5 years, 10 years, or further. I don’t know how they can expect that trust to be rebuilt, it’ll take many, many years for them to even be on the radar for most developers now.

      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 months ago

        It also doesn’t help that once you’ve paid the large fee for the Pro version, it doesn’t actually guarantee any support if you encounter a bug. You get access to a different issue tracker, and might get a Unity employee to confirm that the bug exists after a couple of months (and maybe close it as a duplicate, then reopen it as not a duplicate when the fix for the other bug doesn’t help, then reclose it as a duplicate when it turns out the fix for the other bug also doesn’t fix the other bug, and at the end of a multi-month process, there still being a bug with no indication an engineer’s looked at it).

        Anyway, I’m glad to no longer be working for a company that uses Unity.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        it’ll take many, many years for them to even be on the radar for most developers now.

        Probably longer than the company has, to be honest. The engine’s best bet is to get purchased by another company that partially open-sources it or something.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
          10·
          2 months ago

          Yeah thinking about they did this because they were already struggling financially, and this stupid as hell move will only make that worse for a very long time…

          • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            John Riccitello should find it very hard to get a job as an executive after a blunder that massive, but alas he’s doing just fine.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        2 months ago

        I’m an old gamedev and software dev. I switched to Linux because I felt like every day there was some new, not better just different thing with windows you had to integrate. I feel the same for unity, I recall when they (2.7?) just downgraded from doubles to floats and my whole world didn’t work any more (tools included ofc).

        Just started with Godot C# on Linux, and I feel so in control (after some setup stuff ofc but I feel that that will only happen once) that I can just spend my time on my game and nothing else. So liberating.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
          11·
          2 months ago

          I’ll say as someone who is barely starting out, more blogs, videos, and tutorials would be very helpful with Godot. Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer or content provider, if you have experience using it and setting it up, getting a first project started, a lot of people would be very grateful for your insights.

          • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            2 months ago

            I just followed the official tuto, plus the install of mono/C# stuff. Did it again on my laptop, took a little while but it was easy as a breeze.

            The only hard thing to make work was m$ visual code for the C# scripting, it actually still doesn’t work more than basic code highlighting, doesn’t have a working godot intellisense nor can I compile or run the godot engine from it. I just run it from the Godot editor though.

        • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          hol up, Unity started by using doubles, and then downgraded? That explains why all the physics is so janky in unity

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    When you shoot your own foot, simply taking off the bullet won’t revert the damage, you know?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    Too late, damage is done, community trust has dropped to zero and few people will be motivated to pick your engine back up, because you CAN and absolutely WILL pull another boneheaded stunt exactly like this in the name of squeezing profit from a cold dead stone. Get fucked.

  • Modva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Doesn’t matter, company will just try it again later in some other way. The decision making process that went along with trying to change the monetary model under the feet of developers is still there. The greed.

    Corporates gonna corporate I guess.