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The game production platform Unity has “destroyed the friendly relationship with the developer“, bloomberg news subsequent report Introducing shocking new price plans it specifies Increased prices, pay per install and Various other rental complexities.That bean store bite into programmers sent a lot Escape to alternative game engines–If they can get out of it, that is.Simply Canceled current project It is uneconomical to complete it.
Since going public, Unity has also encountered a series of PR scandals, including: Controversial agreement with US militarya quiet price increase console development Interview in which Mr. Riccitiello criticizes game makers who don’t think about monetizationYou idiot” (he later I apologized. )
The latest incident began on Tuesday when Unity announced a new policy called . Unity runtime charges This charges the company a fee each time a game is installed above a certain threshold. The announcement was a communication mess, leaving several questions unanswered (such as what games will be available on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass), and the company has announced that subsequent was forced to reveal this in a PR statement. (Unity says Microsoft will have issues with these particular downloads.)
Game developers were furious. In recent days, gaming companies large and small have taken to social media to criticize the technology maker’s decision.Developer of popular games Defeat the Spire provided one of the harshest comment, has threatened to move the next project to a new engine if Unity doesn’t backtrack on its policy. “We have never made a public statement,” they said. “That’s how badly you failed.” Under protestsome Unity developers are disabling in-game ads, while others are class action lawsuit.
Unity is not a game engine.it is Advertising networks pushing malware integrated with game engines to gain distribution channels And now I’m wearing that skin. This is fine for large developers and publishers whose relationships with the platform are built around, but what about everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… Choose your flavor and everything starts from scratch.