• NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
    26·
    1 year ago

    Something I completely missed, due to the insanity that is the runtime fee, is that they’re also getting rid of their Plus subscription.

    While Plus never had a bunch of benefits, it was basically the edition for individuals and very small teams who just wanted to get rid of the splash screen. These users would have to use Pro now, which is 5x more expensive at 2040$/year/seat.

    The roadmaps over last few years already showed that they don’t really care about indie devs anymore, but now it feels like they’ve become actively hostile.

    • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.cityOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      My inclination is that something is screwy with their business model, to the point where they need to do this to stay afloat. But to be fair I don’t actually know a whole lot about Unity, this just seems like something that would drive away the majority of customers so I could only see this making sense under the context of being a move made in desperation.

      • Fedora@lemmy.haigner.me
        5·
        1 year ago

        No, it’s the former EA CEO doing EA things in Unity. The one that called developers stupid for not using microtransactions.

    • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      They’re desperate trying (and failing) to compete with Unreal without realizing that it’s mostly small indie devs or mid sized studios who use them, and those can just move to Godot…

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    Effective January 1st, 2024, every indie game developing studio will be dropping Unity like a hot potato.

  • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
    21·
    1 year ago

    Indie game devs: Godot will be happy to have you. Not nearly as large of an ecosystem of tutorials and for pay assets, but time will fix that if people start moving over in mass. I know for my gamejam games I’ll take Godot any day of the week.

    • Fedora@lemmy.haigner.me
      4·
      1 year ago

      Godot also has first-class Linux support, and built a solid foundation that allows for Wayland support in the future. Developing Unity games on Linux has been broken for a while now.

  • Traumkaempfer@lemm.ee
    15·
    1 year ago

    I hope people will also realise that in the future - if not already - every game they have installed and that is running unity, will report back to them.