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aroaceofdiamonds · 2 years ago

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So for those of you who haven't seen the news about Unity, they're going to be charging developers a fee of up to $0.20 per installation of the game (this varies by which version of Unity you are using, and isn't implemented until a threshold is met).

This is a huge blow for the indie video game industry.

So many games have been made using Unity. So many.

Cuphead

Beat Saber

Cult of the Lamb

City Skylines

Hell, freaking Pokémon Go is made using Unity.

By charging this fee, a lot of studios are going to suffer. Games are going to be lost. Cult of the Lamb will no longer be for sale as of January. The studios who will remain will be the ones with the money. It's going to be harder for people to get a foot into the development industry.

Fuck you Unity.

#unity #indie games #indie developer #honestly #for so long i wanted to get into the indie development scene #and one of the biggest engines in the scene have fucked up big time #i know a lot of people have been pushing for people to jump engine #but that forces developers to port their games over to a new engine which they need to learn how to use #so much needless energy if unity hadn't made such a shitty choice #developers shouldn't have to change and adapt in the name of capitalists and their pockets #this shouldn't have happened in the first place #random rambles #sorry if any of this is incoherent or doesn't make sense #i'm just done

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