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What a cluster. I feel for devs who are in a bad spot here thanks to yet more corporate greed.
I hope that one positive that stems from this is less trust in corporate solutions, since ultimately they are always beholden to profit – unlike things like Godot, that now also hopefully get the support they deserve.
Oh good, so over half my Steam library
I feel for them because i switch games all the time on my deck, even with a 1tb sdcard on top of the 512gb, you have to remove games and install games all the time. I’m not going to feel guilty about this, they are my games, i paid for them and will install and uninstall as i see fit. Not out of malice, but because this is expected behavior. I imagine there are going to be a lot of lawsuits over this, and more than a few bankruptcies. They also can’t remove games you’ve already paid for, so this is going to get interesting.
A lot of Nintendo and Pokemon games are on Unity, including Pokemon Go. Sony also has plenty of games on Unity
I predict we’re going to see a slaughter - That’s two of the big three console manufacturers. They ain’t going to let Unity screw them over
But by the same token I also wouldn’t put it past Nintendo and Sony to make backroom deals with Unity. And bonus if it screws over the competition.
@Thorned_Rose @mossy_capivara @BigDaddySlim @FreeBooteR69 @Icalasari one of them should just buy out unity.
And do what with it? Embrace, Extend, and then Extinguish it nd screw people over even more?
Unity made it clear that reinstalling on the same device doesn’t count. Though installing on multiple devices counts since they don’t track who installed it.
Did they clarify how they track “the same device”? If I replace my SSD, is that’s new device? Gpu? Motherboard? Cpu? Get more ram? Reinstall the OS?
And even then, I usually install on 2-3 different devices. And what happens when 10 years down the road I want to okay it again and install it on 2 more devices?
Yeah, I feel really bad for the devs. Some of my favorite games are being affected
Nebulous is still in early access and it’s a 3 man team. This will effectively end an incredible game before it can fulfill it’s early access.
I hope John Riccitiello has chronic pain for the rest of his life. No one should be able to unilaterally fuck over so many people.
Same for Valheim
EA 101
You’re coming after my Rimworld?! BITCH IS YOU CRAZY?!
Isn’t papers please using Haxeflixel?
It seems they switched from Haxe/OpenFL to Haxe/Unity in march
Yikes, there goes more of my library
@mossy_capivara @uuhhhhmmmm Yeah, I don’t think those games and the developers behind them are at fault for Unity’s bullshit.
Just block Unity’s telemetry call by redirecting the URLs to 127.0.0.1 on your hosts file and done
Do you boycott unitygames now?
Who’s boycotting unity games? This is just spreading awareness of what developers are affected.
Then I misunderstood you. How does that impact your library?
Around 20% of the games in my library use unity, some of them being my all-time favorites
@basxto @mossy_capivara what would be the point…
One of the biggest games I can think of on Unity is Rust, and Facepunch has shown that they don’t really give two fucks about switching engines. Unreal doesn’t really have fairer pricing, but it’s way simpler so they’re gonna lose a lot of business to them
Rust currently has a 30-day average player count of just under 75k.
My current favorite (Rimworld) has one of 16k.
That’s still a lot of unhappy gamers.
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I’m making sure to install my favorites before the end of the yearGood rule of thumb
You also have to run them and let unity engine phone home
Is it possible to add a firewall rule to block it?
Can prospective developers use engines like Id Tech 3 or Unreal 2 commercially without paying?
Id Tech 3 is GPLv2, so for that one, yes. I’m not aware of similar being true for Unreal Engine 2, so I’d assume, no.
But if you’re just generally looking for an engine that won’t bite you, Godot is a better choice.
