Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

a language where the standard way to say, "how are you doing?" translates literally as, "how bad is it?"

#xenolinguistics

Uh.. oh. Wow.

“Potential threat” shuts two Unity offices after per-install fee announcement

San Francisco HQ and Austin office closed through Friday, CEO town hall delayed.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/potential-threat-shuts-two-unity-offices-after-per-install-fee-announcement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Glad to see movements like this. Lets hope this keeps gaining momentum.

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#USPol

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#cats

(I don't know if I can tag #catsofmastodon or is that reserved for your own cats?)

The Unity story gets worse and worse
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/
#unity #gamedev

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.

The Death of Unity https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Remember kids, the most carbon-neutral tech product is the one you already own.

Unity updates pricing model to something astoundingly confusing, requiring payments *per user install* https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

Game developers, unshockingly, thoroughly confused and upset https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/#post-9289021

Remember that Unity is now owned by a company that makes malware, and whether or not you're upset about this change to their pricing model, remember that the next update could be even worse.

Also remember that if you are starting a new project, you could be using Godot instead, which is awesome: https://godotengine.org/

Sorry to all the indie game devs out there affected by this though. :(

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