A Potential Earthquake in the Videogame Industry: UNITY Install Fees

[Reynard]

How do these incompetent, greedy CEOs keep getting hired?

 

[trappedslider]

That confirms what I thought when my youngest told me that it was led by a former EA CEO. I immediately thought of Riccitello, the man who killed Pandemic and made BioWare mediocre in released games (IMO).

Bud Fox : Why do you have to wreck this company...
Gordon Gekko : Because it's WRECKABLE, that's why!

 

[Zaukrie]

Yikes! Why would anyone use unity if they can avoid it going forward?

 

[Ryujin]

Update: As of Sept. 10th of this year Riccitiello reportedly owned over 3 million shares of Unity, with an estimated worth of more than $128 million. So this isn't a mass sell-off, but the numbers are somewhat significant.

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[Parmandur]

Yikes! Why would anyone use unity if they can avoid it going forward?

It's nit like they have anything like a monopoly here.

 

[Reynard]

Yikes! Why would anyone use unity if they can avoid it going forward?

My brother is a hobbyist game developer and is immediately dropping Unity, in the same way lots of folks dropped 5E after the OGL 2.0 kerfuffle.

 

[Parmandur]

My brother is a hobbyist game developer and is immediately dropping Unity, in the same way lots of folks dropped 5E after the OGL 2.0 kerfuffle.

Yeah, this is much worse and sillier than the OGL 2.0 even, and likely to end much worse for Unity than that ended for WotC.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

My brother is a hobbyist game developer and is immediately dropping Unity, in the same way lots of folks dropped 5E after the OGL 2.0 kerfuffle.

No small-time developer can take the risk that a single script kiddie takes them as an install target. However those installs get communicated to Unity HQ, which doesn't even really matter, because Unity can just declare that you owe them X amount of money because trust us bro.

I'd personally already moved on from Unity when UE5 came out... but Godot interest has really taken a leap up now.

 

[Storyteller Hero]

A Redditor caught some further shadiness from Unity; apparently a license change tracker was removed, and terms of service "silently" edited by Unity earlier this year. The commenter speculates that Unity is keeping the door open to more abrupt changes to the license in the future.

 

[Ryujin]

How do these incompetent, greedy CEOs keep getting hired?

You're assuming that greed and incompetence go hand-in-hand. He could well be extremely competent, Machiavellian, and greedy.