Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

This is like asking people to boycott 711 because it doesn't sell weed in states where doing so is illegal.

Once again, affiliation with #cryptocurrencies is a tell that a company is shady as hell. The pattern just keeps repeating.

https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

There's a lot of validity to the whole "don't tie yourself to proprietary #software, use #FOSS instead" reaction to the #unity enshittification, but....

It's worth pointing out that Unity is (or at least, was) simply better than any of the FOSS alternative available, especially when you consider the added value of its asset store.

"Switch to #OpenSource" sounds easy, but it's entirely possible that many great #games *simply would not have been made* if it weren't for Unity's feature-set enabling their creation.

There are legitimate reasons that FOSS doesn't always reign supreme, even if proprietary software has its own disadvantages.

Soooo... just a thought, but what if the entire #gamedev community came together to build and run a tool to rapidly install #madewithunity games built by big studios over and over? This would cause them to receive a huge bill from #unity, and they'd actually have the resources to unleash an army of lawyers...

Also, what happens when a major update is published? How can I trust that #Unity's poorly-thought-out tracking system will be able to distinguish between a fresh install and an update? Is updating my game going to cost me thousands of dollars now?

Wait a minute. How is #unity going to tie these installs back to a billable account?

If I have a client who hires me to make them a game, and I deliver a built EXE, is #Unity going to charge *me* every time my client sells their product in perpetuity, even though my contract with them has ended?

If, like me, you're pissed off at #Unity and want to look at options that don't force you to learn a new language, check out these game engines that run on .NET/C#:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/games/engines

More and more, I'm convinced that the stock market is the root of evil in our society.

99% of businesses that go public immediately begin the enshittification process.

Meanwhile, the rich use them as a piggy bank to extract more wealth out of the economy without actually contributing anything.

The stock market doesn't seem to ever make life better for those who produce real value for our economy... it only enriches the leeches.

What would our world look like if we didn't allow stock trading and we actually enforced anti-trust laws?

Holy shit. Back when I was in college, I was a very active member and developer for a #gamedev framework published by Microsoft called #XNA. After they shut down XNA, I moved to #Unity.

But apparently... XNA never died. It was reborn as the open source project #MonoGame. If this is half of what I'm remembering it is... it'll be amazing.

I can't believe I hadn't heard of this before today... Gonna try it out tonight.

So, #unity is essentially going to start charging developers for even pirated copies of their games?

They did not think this through at all. Officially going to start recommending to my clients that they abandon Unity with due haste.