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Pestering us for weeks about urgently needing to arrange a call with us and repeatedly refusing to tell us what it is about over Email, turns out one of devs didn‘t activate his seat and another user created an account with his work email an they thought we were abusing the license. There have been some stupid interactions with Unity: We only needed 2 seats, so not a big customer. I‘m not a game dev but we used it for an AR feature where I worked. Others are saying this is to get the console vendors to pay for it but honestly that sounds like its still adding a lot of friction. It doesn't move the needle on business revenue but it does scare away indies.

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You must already buy this license if you're making $200k or more on their engine.īut what if you're a solo dev who wants to publish something fun, small, and non-lucrative? Or something you think could be lucrative but is kind of a shot in the dark? $1,800 (per year) is a hefty price tag to take that shot. Unity is already fairly heavily monetized. It's sticky, like microsoft office.īut second, that's sort of my point. what's the benefit of getting them on the tool if the tool can't be monetized? What's the angle here for Unity as a business model? Some kind of revenue sharing arrangement or something for if/when a game ends up successful?įirst to answer your question, luring in devs to the unity ecosystem is very good for unity because it creates a supply of unity devs who go on to create demand for the engine at studios.

It's not about weather it is expensive, it's about it feeling expensive for the next generation.įurthermore when it doesn't matter from a sells perspective why increase the burden? Why not just reducing the 'less expensive' limit from 200k revenue to 80k or so?

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the PlayStation is a problem.Īnd sure that might not sound like much, but we are speaking about small hobby projects of often young people, potentially worried about how to pay their student loans or teen not yet earning money.Īnd sure they probably will target Steam first.Īnd sure in the sells aspects this doesn't matter for EA, but it will make more young people use different things for their first games. I mean typical prices for mini hobby games are 5-10 at most 20, if we go with 10 it means you would need to have already had 180 customers before publishing on a game console which is you only target e.g. Not even speaking about you having to put it up upfront and every year (I'm not sure if it's every year you still maintain or sell the game).

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(It's ID 1242620)Īs the game developer, you're then forced to work around bugs in the Unity C++ core with pixel shaders and the stuff that they expose to C#, which is horrible for readability and (of course) very fragile.Ĭontrast that with UE where you have full source code and can step through things in a debugger.įor a hobby game earning 1800 yearly in profited is a lot. For example, try searching for 'Particle Rendering Errors & Flickering - Last light color in unity_LightColor0 multiplied by random small number' which is a bug that affects 2018 LTR, 2019 LTR, and 2020 LTR and is still unfixed. * No source code access and no option to purchase it, because they are above negotiating prices with small companies.

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They always try to weasel their way out by asking you to upgrade to the latest beta, which nobody will do mid-production. * Refusal to fix bugs in the LTR = long term support version. Maybe there should be the Personal Cloud.I'd like to add the biggest issues from the point of view of a small independent game studio: Even the 32GB micro USB drives are the size of a fingernail and you can move a lot of data around. If you run a business and make money off it, use the very best service you can get, but to be honest, it's hard to beat hard drives to move lots of data around. For that money, you can buy around 15 Western Digital 1TB hard drives.

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Don't use any free online services like github, dropbox, etc, as they can disappear at the wrong time.ĭon't use AWS to store your stuff. If they are remote machines, consider getting a linux vps and store your remote stuff there. Then you just have one machine with data to back up. If these are all in your house, you could set up a server and keep all the stuff there. I would suggest you ask yourself what each machine does that your primary machine doesn't, and just make it do that. It's like someone asking how to keep all his stuff the same in the 5 cars that he owns. Perhaps you need to take a step back and ask yourself why you need so many computers.

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