Finally, a Unity less reliable than left unity

I for one am eager to see the rapid uptick in Godot usage.

The Enshittification will continue until morale improves

On the one end, you've got the F2P game that offers you a zero upfront cost to downloading and playing the first few levels, then slowly constricts the quality of the gameplay until you pay them to relieve the pressure.

On the other end, you've got the AAA game that hypes release for months and tries to get as much money out of you as physically possible at launch by flooding social media with FOMA. Then they rapidly sheds support for the product until its another forgettable crap title on the pile of forgotten sequels.

In either case, it almost feels like the goal of modern video games is to inflict anxiety and distress on their audience. Like, the point of the game industry is to make the player miserable and then accept payment to provide relief.

it sure is fun having every form of art and media in your life experience enshittification

I’m pretty sure the entire Hexbear game dev server uses Godot. So literally… Fuck Unity all my homies hate Unity.

Also, according to my friend: "Unity Execs sold shitloads of their own shares days before announcing a change to the engine pricing structure that makes this meme a reality"

It gets even worse:
https://unity.com/pricing-updates

Can I get a discount on the Unity Runtime Fee?
Qualifying customers may be eligible for credits on the Unity Runtime Fee based on the adoption of Unity services beyond the Editor, such as Unity Gaming Services or Unity LevelPlay mediation for mobile ad-supported games. This program enables deeper partnership with Unity to succeed across the entire game lifecycle. Please reach out to your account manager to learn more. For details on Unity LevelPlay, please contact your account manager for ad monetization, or contact sales here about ad monetization.

What is Unity LevelPlay?
Unity LevelPlay is an industry-leading end-to-end ad mediation platform for game and app developers. It supports everything your business needs to scale. With Unity LevelPlay, you can:

• Generate revenue with monetization tools and ad sources through Unity LevelPlay mediation’s competitive real-time auction and optimization tools.
• Gain transparency and data availability with granular breakdowns to pinpoint opportunities immediately. Acquire users at scale using exclusive user acquisition solutions and automated targets.

Just what the games industry needed, even more advertising.

Rip any company that made a game with Unity. Hollow Knight Silksong, if it is being made with Unity is never coming out.

Lol, lmao.

I think its almost funny that John Riccitiello ruined EA, left to fund a hedge fund that failed after ruining a couple of well known companies, got rehired by EA to undo any progress made since he left, left for Unity and ruined that, and at no point has it had any consequences.

Even if you take this in good faith the "distribution via streaming" clause could be very liberally interpreted.

It's 20¢ per install max so even if that policy is literal it isn't quite that extreme. But I do wonder if they'll have a policy for someone downloading repeatedly. I have my browser disk cache disabled so I wonder if it's actually literal in terms of install/initialization or if it's more about having some kind of Unity tracker cookie that identifies users.

Acquire Cult of the Lamb before the New Year when this goes into effect.