If you look closely, you’ll notice the Unity logo is constructed of 3 arrows, all pointing in the directions that their user base is going
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That’s wild. Good for them.
Too late, the damage is done. A lot of people are getting off the Unity bandwagon.
Yep. Even if they reverse course, they can’t be trusted not to make a similar retroactive change in the future.
I think that may be the greatest dammage they’ve done to themselves. They used to be trusted as one of the good players. Now they can’t be trusted anymore. Apart from unhappy developers leaving, who would start to develop with Unity after this?
I have a pipe dream of slowly developing a game of my own, but even if I think I could eventually figure out my own homebrew engine, the whole thing is operating on my free time so that’s even more unrealistic of a goal that’s either gonna lead nowhere or to massive headache down the line.
So I looked around and liked a few things about Unity:
- 2D game support
- Easy publishing to consoles
- Free to develop in while I test the waters
- Plethora of training material available
I’ve sunk a decent amount of time into training materials already, and was starting to feel good about the whole process when this news hit. Not even gonna question it, I’m looking elsewhere. Godot looking mighty tempting to avoid any shenanigans like this. Ultimately if my dream ever realizes I’d like to be able to publish to console, but there are routes available for that with Godot and maybe the options would improve by the time I reach that point.
Yeah I’m in the same boat. Looked at all the engines, decided that my idea was simple enough and picked Godot. Then this news hit. Glad I made that decision.
I’m actively avoiding unity games and unity development, so there’s that. Can’t put that genie back in the bottle. They massively fucked up.
This feels like Reddit all over again. There’s no saving it, their CEO has long touted the “gotcha bitch!” approach to extorting money from users and called people who didn’t “fucking idiots”. This is all he knows.
Let’s see how this pans out over the week, still heaps of opportunities for unity to fuck this up further
The thing that’s crazy is there are some Wall Street analysts who are more bullish on Unity in our current context, which is hilarious to me, because given how they’ve (perhaps illegally) pissed off so many different and critical parts of their ecosystem, the only clear trajectory I see for Unity at this point is down.
I hope this will have an impact.
