The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN

1.5 years of learning unity gone down the shitter. here I come, godot

even if they backtrack, trust is ruined at this point. this only makes sense if you're trying to destroy the company intentionally and short your stock on the way out. what the fuck

It's actually neither of those, the biggest impact is free-to-play games. Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra, virtually every Unity mobile game in the market... Having to pay per install has huge potential for abuse and can cost a fortune for games with millions of downloads.

This needs to turn into a class action suit that results in John Tortellini having his oxygen rights revoked. I can't imagine shareholders will be happy finding out that John Riceroni has been selling off Unity's stock, and I'm pretty sure what Unity's trying to do here is straight-up illegal in the US. Fuck John Rigatoni. God, I was so happy thinking he'd died and gone to hell after EA, but nope, still alive and well.

From their FAQ, looks like Unity doesn't have any real way of dealing with pirated or fake installs. Their FAQ says you have to work with them when that happens so they can correct your bill. It doesn't say Unity will automatically filter those installs out.

Oh fuck no. Silksong is never coming out.

There is no way they can legally enforce retroactively charging. How the fuck is that even possible or legal?

I don't want Silksong developed on Unity. Scrap it, start fresh. I'll wait.

You mean that Silksong could be delayed? pikachu face

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I encourage people here to check out Stride too, for something open sourced, C# based, and if Godot isn't your cup of tea for some reason.

https://github.com/stride3d/stride

If Silksong is delayed because of this I'm going to riot!

I understand the controversy, especially in light of the recent Reddit bullshit. But I don't think I understand the tech.

For the sake of it, let's focus only on games that are paid for, installed on a system (or downloaded using Game Pass), and do not involve a multiplayer element. (Hollow Knight, Cuphead, etc)

Is there some ongoing resource use (on Unity's end) when people download or play these games? Like, when I play Hollow Knight, my system isn't connecting to Unity to use their servers to run the game on my home system, is it? When I download a game to my system, an I downloading the engine separately from the software, thereby using Unity's servers?

As abhorrent as the Reddit API change was, at least they were charging for the ongoing consumption of some digital resource (Reddit data). Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this just seems more like trying to collect a residual after the fact.

Looking forward to pihole lists that block every single domain from ubity.

Can they go retroactively? Aren't there contracts?

If they kill Cult of the Lamb over this. There will no longer be any reason to live.

Cult of the Lamb did come out and say they weren’t serious about delisting.

For anyone interested to sign I found this petition against the new fee. https://chng.it/kYpqWBBHbB

Hoping with all the backlash Unity is forced to role it back. Thank you to everyone posting alternatives, I will be checking these out :)

This is going to get so bad…Go godot.

Can Steam buy Unity and end this nightmare?

Game Dev Story... And every Kairosoft game.

Did they just forget they sell mobile games?