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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by ketzo on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:38PM (#37651702)
The merger makes a ton of sense — Unity was super late to the game building their own Demand-Side Platform for ads, and that’s how you make money in mobile games now, so they had to buy their way out of the problem.

I mean, it’s horrible for consumers/gamers/developers, obviously, but from a business perspective it was the correct move.

Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by betamist on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:18PM (#37652102)
Well, clearly not, if the community is going to have a fallout with the product and never trust it again. You can have the most maggotty type of an ad companyxm, if you don’t have shelf space to show ads you won’t be making money.
Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by raxxorraxor on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:48AM (#37655354)
I doubt this was a sensible business perspective at all. They would have different audiences to consider and they didn't. This fallout is pretty much the invoice for that strategy.

It may come up as one of the worst decision in the modern industry. Granted, time will tell and nothing is certain.