A Potential Earthquake in the Videogame Industry: UNITY Install Fees

[FrogReaver]

Unity looked at WOTC during the OGL and said ‘hold my beer’

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Wait, Unity has 7700+ employees while Epic only has about 2200+...

What is that company doing.

 

[CleverNickName]

Wait, Unity has 7700+ employees while Epic only has about 2200+...

What is that company doing.

Shooting itself in the foot, from the looks of it.

 

[Gradine]

Yeah it's never a good sign when your CEO starts dumping stock

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah it's never a good sign when your CEO starts dumping stock

It's not a lot though. It could be a Bellwether, or it could just be he needed some cash for a third yacht.

 

[darjr]

Sometimes I forget. Edit to put this comic strip behind a spoiler tag cause of naughty language.

Spoiler

 

[Scribe]

Sometimes, the world reminds you that its run by people, no better or worse than the rando's one would meet on the internet.

Sometimes, it slaps you across the face and demands you acknowledge that the world is run by rando's and they can just as easily be idiots.

Amazing.

 

[Ryujin]

Sometimes, the world reminds you that its run by people, no better or worse than the rando's one would meet on the internet.

Sometimes, it slaps you across the face and demands you acknowledge that the world is run by rando's and they can just as easily be idiots.

Amazing.

And sometimes, just sometimes, I think the movie "Idiocracy" was a documentary.

 

[Scribe]

And sometimes, just sometimes, I think the movie "Idiocracy" was a documentary.

Oh 100%.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Wait, Unity has 7700+ employees while Epic only has about 2200+...

What is that company doing.

This is the several hundred million dollar question. Given the Unity's development has been extremely slow over the last few years, it doesn't seem like they could possibly really need more than, say 1000 employees. What the rest are doing? A mystery.

Further, they've managed to piss off a whole bunch of huge mobile developers, which is a spectacularly bad idea, given that they're the ones essentially propping up Unity, and they probably have more agility and ability to move away from Unity than most indie developers. I imagine a lot of them will simply re-make their games outside Unity.