The GPU company that provided the GPU to render the assets also deserves a cut, don’t you think?
I’m pretty sure gaming studios would be mostly fine with paying a percentage of the sales revenue to unity too, the problem is that Unity wants a flat fee even when studios aren’t making any money.
I’m pretty sure gaming studios would be mostly fine with paying a percentage of the sales revenue to unity too,
I think the real problem is changing the terms of the agreement and making it retroactive.
Yes, the question is what will happen next year and the year after that.
Pandora’s box has been opened.
Exactly. If they are willing to fuck over the creatives like this the best thing to do is to cut their losses and move to a different engine.
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Hey, when your game runs on my PC or console, I am the one paying the electricity bill for your game. Why the fuck do I have to pay for this, when I already bought the game? Isn’t it enough, that we gamers invest real money and our time into your game? We want to get paid, too!
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At least game engines provide massive value. Yeah they take a cut, but more money would have ultimately been used to produce a vastly inferior inhouse engine. Yeah Unity’s recent move is douchey, buy it’s still miles better than any of the extortion by app stores. No one can tell me Apple’s curation is worth a 30% cut. Ridiculous.
No one can tell me Apple’s curation is worth a 30% cut.
I mean, it obviously is, otherwise companies wouldn’t be paying it. The difference is that in the case of the distribution platform, it’s worth it not because it would add any value to the game itself, but because of the monopoly of the platform, which provides value to nobody but the platform.
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If fhere was a big app store alternative then devs would put their stuff probably on there. Or at least encourage you to use the alternative store.
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I don’t think any inhouse engine can be fucked up so badly as to be inferior to Unity.
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You joke, but it won’t be too long before NVIDIA charges you a monthly fee to use features like DLSSupreme or some features on a card you already own. Then Intel and AMD will follow with something like Quantum threading for CPUs with four threads per core. Want to run more than one thread per core, pay a monthly subscription fee please.
This is why we need to stop the monopolies and oligopolies. Hopefully this will be a great boost to a rival
Rival must be open source, otherwise we’re doomed to be in this situation again. Go Godot!
I would love there competition to be FOSS. However, I will take anything at this point.
Just wait until you hear what the publisher is going to take!
If you want to access a built in audience then you can pay you it. I’m not sympathetic to publishers complaining about Google, Apple and steam. If they want to create their own audience, go for it. Amazon and epic are both trying.
Simping for monopolies is always popular lol
It doesn’t even make sense from a free market perspective, since Apple and Google are government created and protected monopolies.
Government created?
They are absolutely not government created monopolies. You can download other app stores on Android.