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09-15-2023, 09:48 PM | #1 |
Cobra Lab Rat
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If any of you guys have free time, enjoy
one of the greatest and fastest Corporate Collapses in History seen in Real time. It is Darkly entertaining. Basically Unity tried changing the contracts of their Game Engine to every single one of their developer customers using their Technology License from a Lump sum to basically how many times people Install their games like Darth Vader altering the deal. Forgetting of course, Unity is not Darth Vader, it has competitors. This only started 9/13/23 and the Company probably will probably never Recover like Photobucket. 9/13/23 Text https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme..._will_include/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme..._their_policy/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme..._statement_on/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...offices_was_a/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme..._death_threat/ 9/15/23 Text https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...lopers_fought/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...rsial_fees_if/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...ch_off_ads_to/ New stuff Upper echelon explaining how the New Run Time Fee Aka the controversy changes were caused by Unity Merging with Iron Source LTD and the Run Time Fee was a badly thought out ploy to steal marketshare from the competitor App lovin by offering to Waive Fees for people who switch to Iron Source. 9/18/23 to 9/25/23 Unit backpedals, But developers continue to leave. Fee is now runtime or 2.5% of your total revenue!!! With a promise they won't do it again. From a company that broke that promise from last time. 9/16-18/23 https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...ogize_for_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...ve_ours_unity/ 9/18-20/23 https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...nonnegotiable/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...trust_is_gone/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...ased_fee_caps/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...ce_hike_after/ 9/20-24+/23 https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...ointed_at_how/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...our_community/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...icing_changes/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comme...unity_debacle/ Final edit: Unity fired the EA CEO guy. John Riccitiello. Unfortunately, John was actually the fall guy this time. The Board and everyone actually responsible like Ironsource and Silverlake people is still there. https://old.reddit.com/r/unity/comme..._you_shouldnt/
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09-15-2023, 10:27 PM | #2 |
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Yeah, I watched Muta and Spawnwave covering it. Pretty shady shit.
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09-25-2023, 12:29 AM | #3 |
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Quote:
and say "We promise we won't do it again" Posted the stuff that happened over this week. Man, this has been almost as jaw dropping as when Movie Pass collapsed or the Hasbro Wizards OGL fiasco.
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09-25-2023, 03:12 AM | #4 |
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Plus there are all the unanswered questions about how they were going to implement the installation tracking on a technical level. Common consensus seem that it will be be a form of DRM scheme (read: "spyware"). Because that always works out so well. Gamers love having DRM applications filling your free memory, hosing performance, and opening up backdoor vulnerabilities for even worse things.
(And, of course, pirated copies have all that DRM stuff stripped out, meaning the pirated version tends to run and play much better than the "real" version a customer actually paid for. Fancy that.) Furthermore: who gives a shit about how many times a game has been installed? Aren't sales the main metric for determining royalties and profit cuts? And it's not like all the games are sold/distributed from a centralized Unity storefront, where Unity might be incentivized to cover the costs of the infrastructure. It's such a random thing to take a cut from installs apart from sales, and has problematic implications. I suspect we'll be seeing a large competitor to Unity enter the market sooner rather than later. There's already a LOT of disgruntled people who are leaving, or staying but fighting to get the terms changed, or just straight up organizing class-action suits over this who probably won't want to go back to Unity after this. https://kotaku.com/unity-engine-subs...dev-1850831032 https://kotaku.com/unity-engine-runt...evs-1850865615
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01-11-2024, 11:50 PM | #5 |
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Looks like Unity is a company that doesn't serve Stockholders or
their workers. They fired another 25% of the company. 1800 workers. Anyways. Turns out the reason Unity can run Fuck around and Find out is the company has essentiallybeen taken over by self serving CEO and management who are dumping as much stock as legally possible while running the company to serve their interests first. xxxxxxxxxxx (Upper echelon blurb summarized) From Secform4.com 3 years of insider stock trades: >>>Unity: 1.1 billion stock sold, no purchased Take 2: 176 million stock sold, no purchased Activision Blizzard: 10 million sold, 5 million purchased. xxxxxxxxxxxxx Incredible how self serving and awful Unity's top brass are. If you want the whole context, the video from Upper Echelons is below.
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