I think it's crazy that they want to write invoices based on estimations. Why didn't I ever do that? "Oh yeah, I estimate that I worked about um... 2 weeks on that feature."

Yeah I don't understand how that works. Will that even stand up to a lawsuit? Wouldn't they have to give up stuff in discovery if a game company sues to find how they were billed?

Not bad for mega corporation's that only care about money

As an outsider: How is it?

I'm not even sure this is a price increase. It probably is, but I think a lot of people will pay less.

They are just reserving the right to bankrupt you, at random, without any previous warning, because they want. There's no good reasoning anywhere.

I can definitely see one of those "ree woke game" types doing this.

I can see this going wrong with steam proton if each install gets it's own wine config, simply reinstalling or updating might look like a new machine

Sounds like the idea came to Riccatello in a dream. Damn CEOs are so used to getting their way they just think and it will manifest bullshit.

Someone tell them they can achieve the latter much more effectively if they simply charge once FOR EACH COPY SOLD.

Hmmm... but then what about humble bundle sales or freemium games? Maybe the charge should change depending on the price of the game...

OH WAIT THAT'S REVENUE SHARE. Seriusly this whole thing is just an attempt at taking more money than devs would be willing to pay, by using a model without an up front percentage.

kind of hard to gaslight when hundreds of news sites already have copies of the thing you said before published

Oh, I don't think anybody will disagree that Unity is completely unoptimized and barebones compared to Unreal. It is also hard to learn and confusing compared to Godot.

There used to be a huge amount of people that wanted exactly something easier to learn than Unreal and more featureful than Godot. But those two improved in a way that this niche may not even exist anymore. Anyway, currently Unity has that unbeatable marketplace, and I really don't know if there's a good enough replacement somewhere, but I don't see any other reason to use it.

(But then, I'm not really a game developer. I've used those here or there, for fun.)

It's why software needs to be open source, not just free.

sounds like you’ve missed a couple of days of the newest Unity drama

• [Gamesfromscratch] Unity’s New Pricing is … Awful
• [Gamesfromscratch] Develoers React to Unity Price Changes

Because greed. Is there any other explanation?

Instead of revenue sharing like some places do Unity want a $0.20 fee , less depending on your sales numbers, for installing a unity game.

https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

They announced a new business model effective next year. It’s plastered all over the net, just look up “Unity news” and you’ll get a ton of hits on it. Lots of coverage on YouTube as well.

Unity's current CEO is an ex-exec from EA. but at least it looks like in 2021 they got around to replacing the CFO from 2015, who was previously also an EA ex-exec that was hired as such the year after the CEO was brought on board from EA. The hirings coincided with many rapid, scummy changes to their subscriptions and dev support. I expect many lies yesterday, today, tomorrow, and beyond as they now focus on squeezing their non-subbed devs