Doc Blaze

this is fascinating and very insightful, thanks for sharing!

I strongly agree that it seems like in his comments after the interview last year (the fing idiots comment) that he was planning to leave soon the whole time and volunteered to be the fall guy in exchange for a golden parachute. It’s a win for all parties involved, because unity gets their PR scapegoat and he was likely going to get a nice financial package on the way out the door anyway.

I don’t care much what the new direction is anyway. I’m using unreal for my games but I admit even with the new pricing structure, I’d probably pay a lot less under Unity’s install fee thing, which caps out at 4% rev share, assuming one of my games ever even got enough sales to hit a million dollar threshold as a solo developer. The issue for me was the magical telemetry spyware that’s apparently going to be in every new build now. Its to the point I’m reconsidering if I’ll buy unity games ever again, or even install any of the ones I have on steam if they decide to update the build.

(That last part hurts my soul deep because Cities Skylines 2 is literally about to release. 🥲)

SO MAYBE YOULL BE A GOOD PERSON TO ASK WHO WROTE: THE MOON RULEZ - #1, ON MY CAR, WITH A KEY

/ Carl

this lil guys pretty unhappy about your moon comments.

you best to watch your back

If I were renting I’d allow anyone to have pets if they were willing to increase their security deposit by the cost of replacing all the mounted rugs in the apartment. But if they stayed for many years and I had to replace them anyway just on wear and tear id give them the money back when they left.

you came from your dad’s ballsack. science approves.

cut those people out of your lives forever!

sorry mom and dad, kick the iPads or I’m not answering the phone anymore

Well it does seem a little hypocritical, no? I don’t hate any tech company, I’m heavily skeptical of them having our best interest, but I see value where value exists, if there’s a way to extract it/partition it from the company that makes it. Whatsapp for example, is still a decent app even though Facebook is awful. I even begrudgingly use Meta VR for stuff I can’t find on steam.

Exactly, and I don’t think Google really gives a shit what you do anyway, they just want to shelp your data to their ad partners. But any free open source software or hardware has value independent of the company that creates it. Degoogled chromium, FOSSized android rom Pixels, YouTube in browser with ublock, it’s not hard to remove Google/Microsoft etc from the equation and get a useful product if there’s one there.

many of you hate Google yet I’m willing to bet most of you flashed a custom or foss android rom like lineageos to your devices.

I’m not just taking about epic, there were layoffs in basically every gaming company that exists the past few months

see this for more: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/2907340

unity, naughty dog, Ubisoft, EA, Amazon games (twitch) and much more.

bit of a strawmans argument you’re refuting here.

unnecessary

I hate to have to justify layoffs but it’s at least true that lots of studios are unexpectedly (from a couple years ago) hemorrhaging cash right now. anytime inflation is so high for so long, discretionary spending on entertainment is near the first to get cut from consumers budgets. people aren’t sitting at home like we were in 2021 only buying digital entertainment anymore.

The CEO is the founder and majority shareholder and epic is privately funded so probably not gonna happen

Evidently, all of Epic Games’ business had been “heavily funded by Fortnite” in the last six years, and different parts of the company became “disconnected” from their revenue streams.

Wait, so youre really telling me me Epic giving away a ton of free games on EGS every single month and free unreal engine marketplace assets to devs as well as regular epic megagrants was never a financially sustainable move?

Psssh. In other news, salt is salty. 🤭

I honestly believe Tim is not going to f–k this one up though, as a former one he clearly cares about the game dev community and as majority shareholder he isn’t needing to be driven by profits as much as publicly traded Unity head John Riccatello is.

Plus, fortnite is still a goddamn cash printer, just not printing as fast as they expected.

I’m pretty sure these are companies both seeing less sales in the post COVID era as well as realizing how much they can do with AI that they don’t need so many people for. I hope at least this further reduces crunch culture once we come out the other side.

Thankfully even though the shovelware era is really upon us now, I think there’s never been a better time to throw your hat into the ring as an indie or solo developer, if you have the guts or chops for it. Not a ton of competition coming out and FOSS tools and cheap marketing opps are more available than ever before. Steam deck really broadens the demographic and AI tools make multiple hat wearing devs more productive than ever before. At some point these AI games are going to take over, so if you always thought you would never have the resources to get your passion project done, perhaps now is a good time to reconsider.

second row second column, did someone turn their head into a basketball?