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Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ... by pxoe on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:28PM (#37525588)
people trusted in unity for years, enough to build their products and careers on it and around it, and something like this still happened. was it foreseeable? even if it was, well what then, 'great, i have no options besides sucking it up or switching, since i built upon this'. what guarantees do epic/unreal customers have?

oh wait, this isn't about 'what worth does 'trust in company' even have', but more like 'public companies bad'

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Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ... by BlueTemplar on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:02PM (#37526890)
> was it foreseeable?

Has Unity ever said anything about turning their software into a platform, for instance asking for monthly/yearly subscriptions instead of a one time fee ?

If they did, that's when the devs (and especially teachers of future devs !) should have dropped it as soon as feasible.

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Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ... by pxoe on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:18PM (#37528622)
platform isn't just about subscriptions, subscriptions don't really make a platform, and overall it'd be kind of a poor tell of whether it's time to jump ship. epic/unreal is kind of a platform (there's a bunch of stuff in their ecosystem that plugs in, etc.), so what, should people jump ship from unreal now
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Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ... by BlueTemplar on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:44AM (#37534695)
You're right, it's not a sufficient condition (pretty sure Red Hat offers Linux support in subscription form), you also need to have closed source software for a platform.

I don't know about the situation with Unreal, but I would be very wary of using it, considering Epic has been pushing a game Store. (And Unreal's source code is merely source available ?)

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