Oh I’m willing to bet that Disney and Nintendo are getting their most expensive lawyers. Keep in mind, there are a lot of Marvel and Star Wars games out there, the mouse doesn’t like to share his cheese.
Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months agoDeath threats are not OK, but this can destroys years of work for people, and it can threaten their livelihood. I’m guessing this has pushed some people into a sense of desperation. And these threats are acts of desperation, not threats that have a huge chance of being carried out.
John Riccitiello needs to be fired, if he isn’t Unity deserves bankruptcy for this move.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There aren’t a lot of Unity Disney games out their, I would struggle to name any. And there definitely aren’t any Nintendo ones.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Actually some of the newer Pokemon games are in Unity, and Disney has a lot of Marvel phone games in Unity
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unity is actually quite a popular engine for a lot of games both 3D and 2D and on multiple different platforms. It’s very popular among indie developers, though there are actually quite a few games from Big publishers that are released under unity as well.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’d be willing to bet it wasn’t developers sending death threats but “gamers.”
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why would they do that? They are not directly impacted by this. Developers losing years of work have much more reason to be super angry.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ever been in a game forum where the players pretty much worship the developers as if they were gods? It’s way too common. Those people can get crazy protective when they make it part of their identity.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nope, but I can imagine that to some degree.
Despite that, I doubt gamers are very involved in payment methods of game engines, or even know which game engine their games are running on.
So unless some VERY popular game developers have been out saying expansions for their favorite games will not be released, I don’t see the mechanics for what you claim working at this point.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Depending how it’s implemented, gamers are absolutely impacted by it.
Some of the chatter is that even already-released games would be subject to this change, meaning a lot of devs might pull their backlog to avoid going broke on a game they put out years ago and is now free (or heavily reduced). Or games that have always been free, now the dev has to choose if they want to charge for a historically free game or pull it completely.
This is dev hostile, but it’s also consumer hostile.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe you know, but what happens if a dev pulls a game and someone still has the installer and installs the game? Are they going to charge for that still? It makes not sense to me.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I 100% agree on this, I’ve even made a post about it, where I mention for instance that this will cause a need for more DRM where we need less.
I’m not saying it isn’t gamers, but unlike you, I find it unlikely. You may be right IDK.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They’re already Indie devs that are talking about delisting their games in order to avoid paying Unity fees they can’t afford.
This contract changes criminal, especially since it punishes the developer for no fault of its own. Sometimes I have to reinstall a game multiple times in order to figure out why it suddenly doesn’t work. I’m not the only one, that’s going to rack up fast.
And if you think review bombing is bad now? I imagine people buying the game not to leave a negative review, but you run a script that continuously reinstalls and uninstall the game.
They could bankrupt any developer they wanted to.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which game devs are they? I want to know which games I should buy now before it’s too late?
moody@lemmings.world 9 months ago
The same way people who aren’t directly affected by people being queer threaten to bomb places that host drag events.
Some people are just assholes.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 9 months ago
See my other comments, it was neither. It was a single employee at their company.