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Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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There already Indie devs that are talking about delisting their games in order to avoid paying Unity fees they can't afford.
This contract changes criminal, especially since it punishes the developer for no fault of its own. Sometimes I have to reinstall a game multiple times in order to figure out why it suddenly doesn't work. I'm not the only one, that's going to rack up fast.
And if you think review bombing is bad now? I imagine people buying the game not to leave a negative review, but you run a script that continuously reinstalls and uninstall the game.
They could bankrupt any developer they wanted to. Hell, it might not even be the gamers, if a company with a game on Unity doesn't want to make it epic exclusive, Tim Sweeney has the choice to just continuously reinstall that game in order to sink any company that doesn't play ball
Which game devs are they? I want to know which games I should buy now before it's too late?