This reads like a statement from a vulture capitalist who plans to break up the company and sell the parts to make a quick buck. One would think they would focus on building trust, not giving yet more devs reasons to use a different engine.
Sad thing is, it lets Epic run most of the table now. Their shite business practices and ethics are just ridiculous. To have them leading the whole industry with little competition is a damn shame.
I think many devs are moving to Godot, but certainly Epic will pick up some market share here.
Unfortunately Godot, while a promising project, is nowhere near as production ready or feature rich as Unity or Unreal.
I just hope it gets the funding and resources it needs to realize its potential. Hopefully all the recent attention helps.
It has actually. https://fund.godotengine.org is at $50K a month donations now. It went up around $30K since the start of the new Unity pricing announcement
I hope so, too.
they really don’t, I’m not sure where you get your information from but epic do not have a majority on anything
I was more talking about the near future. The massive exodus away from Unity is palpable.
It’s all developer’s faults. If they only accepted the fair new pricing policy without protesting, this decision could have been avoided /s
layoffs for thee and massive bonuses and golden parachutes for me (me being the execs who made the decision to sink the company)
They did it to themselves. No one will trust them not to change the pricing model again.
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wikipedia says they lost ~ 900m last year (net).
they’ve been on a non-stop buying spree, the recent ipo, and vultures hold a fair chunk of the company. there’s probably more than a little pressure to get the books in the black by ‘any means necessary’.
This year’s Unity story sums up my discontent with tech nicely. Impressive tech made by extremely talented people, botched by incompetent corporate parasites who care only about securing their millions.
I mean, that’s pretty much everything that isn’t tech too.
I don’t consider growing corn to be all that impressive. The rest holds though.
And the dumpster fire that is Unity continues…
“Look what you made me do to myself!!!”
I don’t give a shit what happens to Unity.
Unity, as a business, as a stock investment, as a C-suite and board of directors, is rotting in its casket for all I care. I have committed to never buy game built in Unity whose development started after September this year.
This whole debacle wasn’t an engineering problem; it’s not the software development staff’s fault.
