Comment on Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs
orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
For the studios releasing a game in a few months, it’s probably too late to ditch unity, but would make sense to start looking at alternatives for their next projects.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Godot explodes in popularity in the next 5 years.
pennomi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m just about to launch my f2p Unity game after about 2 years of development and I’m going to be forced to simply shut down the project… There’s no way we don’t go negative with these install fees.
Hard to tell your development team all their work will be wasted.
orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Damn… that’s rough.
Hopefully they’ll backpedal on this decision for now (they are already getting a lot of flack). But I guess the message has been sent. Wouldn’t be surprised if Unity starts bleeding users after this.
Best of luck!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same here. My little side project has the potential to put me into debt of I choose to monetize. I guess it’ll be free and release it as a labor of love.