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Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by hakre on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:13PM (#37536620)
> We are the collective voice of the game development industry—developers, game designers, artists, and business minds. Passionate about our craft, we've invested years in shaping an industry that touches the lives of millions worldwide.

Clearly the "our craft" is "business minds" and the problem with increased Unity fees is that their add business is at risk despite all these "business minds" invested years to shape their model.

What an excellent shit-show.

Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by lacrimacida on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:32PM (#37536804)
Yeah, doesn’t seem they bring much the community, Id be surprised if content produced isn’t mindless addictive clicker of some kind. I agree it’s just a business model to leech off open source
Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by ganglandfee on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:33PM (#37536812)
Did someone say shit show?

jerry jerry jerry Jerry!

Unity is going to just walk this all back, so I can’t imagine this being a real shit show.

Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by jarsin on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:52PM (#37537524)
Our Craft = Coding what the resident psychologist came up with that will have the greatest likelihood of addicting players to buy our loot boxes.
Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by bmitc on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:59PM (#37537586)
I am wondering at what point will governments step up and regulate social media, loot boxing, and other such digital-based addictive things just as they regulate other addictive things like drugs, alcohol, and gambling?
Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by dotnet00 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:04PM (#37537639)
When the current generation of politicians are dead or when something sufficiently drastic happens. It took EA being incredibly abusive with lootboxes in a game from a series as popular as Star Wars and the resulting backlash on Reddit going viral for some politicians to consider some investigations. Actually getting them to work on it seriously would take something even more drastic than that.
Re:Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads ... by johnnyanmac on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:40PM (#37541290)
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