Comment on Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs

JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• goosegooseboat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Newsflash the Unity drama as a whole still affects the PC market

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How does this effect me buying discounted games on Steam?

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    • goosegooseboat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s a lot of things it affects. But lets stick with the self serving perspective of your question “How does this affect* me buying discounted games”. You personally? Not much, the impact is relatively tame… for now. An aspect that you failing to consider is that devs could raise price of games to offset the cost of the Unity price model change. Sure you could wait for a discount. Safe to say we all appreciate a good discount every now and again. But I encourage you think about that “one” game on your wishlist “If it was just 20% less then I would buy it” But that 20% doesn’t end up happening because of the fact that even during this hypothetical sale the devs are still trying to offset the Unity cost. Additionally you failing to consider is that Unity is an incredibly popular starting point for many new devs because of the tooling it has available, many popular titles were started by these indie devs. Games that wouldn’t ever have been created because those people wouldn’t have ever gotten started if they didn’t use Unity.

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t buy any game until it’s at least 50% off via isthereanydeal. Ever. Tons of games I might like have sat on my waitlist for years. Eventually I’ll torrent it they never come down.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This reaction is like getting upset with Mexico for supporting the wall after Trump baselessly claimed Mexico would pay for it.

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I might agree if I could figure out the analogy you’re trying to make.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re acting like this reflects badly on the console makers when a) they haven’t confirmed they are on board for this and might instead end up being the ones to kill it, and b) if they were on board for this, they still wouldn’t be the bad guys, they’d be helping out devs on their platforms.

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Er. I’m acting like I’m glad I don’t have to worry about this because my rat isn’t in the race. Calm yourself, chil.

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• goosegooseboat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How will this effect me buying games discounted on Steam?

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