Unity to Start Charging Per-Installation Fee with New Business Model Update

[Squared]

Sell stock at high price, then introduce some stupid rules that bring the price down, and buy them back. Money laundering at its best.

I just don't know how many devs will have any trust in Unity after this debacle.

I believe money laundering would be taking money obtained through illegal means, like bribery, and running it through legal businesses before receiving it to give the appearance to the IRS that it was all above-board. In this case the sales were pretty direct and not laundered.

 

[AusWolf]

I believe money laundering would be taking money obtained through illegal means, like bribery, and running it through legal businesses before receiving it to give the appearance to the IRS that it was all above-board. In this case the sales were pretty direct and not laundered.

Fair point, I used the wrong word. Free money is more like what I was looking for.

 

[Hattu]

As this is a gamer and enthusiast site afterall, I'm a bit confused. Is this all we got from these news?

 

[Denver]

Alternative headline:

"Unreal Engine booming as developers abandon Unity."

In both cases, the quality of the games tends to get worse.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I think regardless of the end result. Even if they do rollback the plans to start charging people and developers. The damage has already been done.

The folks who already have a game near completion in the pipeline or too far into development to turn back and re-build in a different engine. These folks will finish their game then use a different engine for the next.

There is not a single ounce of trust that remains after they pulled the carpet out from peoples feet like that.

 

[TechHalp]

They're not sorry they did it, they're sorry they got caught.

But what developer is going to trust an engine that will try and do this again?

 

[ReallyBigMistake]

the CEO of Unity is John Riccitello one of the most evil men in gaming. He worked for EA and then left, founded Elevation Partners which bought Bioware and Pandemic. He then sold the company to EA and then EA hired him as CEO. He then destroyed Pandemic and fired everyone while Bioware was ruining and is a shell of their former selves. He left EA and eventually joined Unity. In 2019 he was sued for sexual harrasment and other things by an employee at Unity.

 

[b1k3rdude]

As we know the current CEO of Unity is the same sh*t-stain that resigned (got fired) from EA, one John Riccitiello. Yep, the same prick who is on public record, calling Devs and Gamers alike "some of the biggest fucking idiots". This is the same 'f**king idiot' who also phoned in the fake threat scare to the police so he had an excuse to cancel the townhall where you know he was going to get grilled by his own employees. Here in the Uk we refer to people of this calibre 'c*nts'. So to use my London slang, 'he needs to f*ck of and do one already' Perhaps thats why he and the BOD's sold some/all thier shares in the company right before this announcement.

I shall sit back and enjoy the popcorn for when M$, Sony and Nintendo stomp this c*nt and his cabal of fellow execs into oblivion -

Well as some devs have said now, too little too late - https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/unity_runtime_fee_changes/

 

[KLMR]

Fortunately there is not enough room for incompetence in Microsoft for him and Bob at the same time. Or there is?

 

[R-T-B]

All that said, my outrage has been tapered a bit upon learning that the "per install" fee is capped to 4%. This is one percent less than unreels engine fee in the first place so... a bit of a storm over nothing. That said the place is still rotten to the core, which brings it's own issues.

As we know the current CEO of Unity is the same sh*t-stain that resigned (got fired) from EA, one John Riccitiello. Yep, the same prick who is on public record, calling Devs and Gamers alike "some of the biggest fucking idiots". This is the same 'f**king idiot' who also phoned in the fake threat scare to the police so he had an excuse to cancel the townhall where you know he was going to get grilled by his own employees. Here in the Uk we refer to people of this calibre 'c*nts'. So to use my London slang, 'he needs to f*ck of and do one already' Perhaps thats why he and the BOD's sold some/all thier shares in the company right before this announcement.

I shall sit back and enjoy the popcorn for when M$, Sony and Nintendo stomp this c*nt and his cabal of fellow execs into oblivion -

Well as some devs have said now, too little too late - https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/unity_runtime_fee_changes/

It's not just the CEO. The place is rotten to the core. The board of execs is full of IronSource goons, a former malware developer.

Read. Not all of this is true, but enough is to be damning:

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Does anyone care about how its charging devs?

PER Install.

anyone wants to be vindictive towards another developer could abuse this system, but they dsy they have "anti-scam checks in place"

 

[Wye]

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Yeah, about what I expected

One of those was me, I have a Unity project in progress and the first thing I did when I saw the news was to Google Godot.

 

[theouto]

Regarding the update: Oh boy, I love non answers like these, they mean absolutely nothing! Yippee!!!!!!

Kick the entire board in the nutsack, fire the CEO, restore unity

 

[TechHalp]

All that said, my outrage has been tapered a bit upon learning that the "per install" fee is capped to 4%.

Wrong. It's not capped at 4%, they are considering capping it at 4% after the backlash for them having no cap at all. And they're probably going to try this in 2 years again.

Gullible.

 

[Easo]

Tim Sweeney has probably drank himself stupid from all that champagne he must have opened when he heard the news.

 

[lemonadesoda]

10% for the big guy.

Backfired.

 

[R-T-B]

Wrong. It's not capped at 4%, they are considering capping it at 4% after the backlash for them having no cap at all. And they're probably going to try this in 2 years again.

Gullible.

I'm far from gullible. I just may have gotten my facts crossed in all the noise. I am certain the place is rotten to the core either way and circling the drain, and would not advise it for future projects. See my past posts.

 

[b1k3rdude]

All that said, my outrage has been tapered a bit upon learning that the "per install" fee is capped to 4%. This is one percent less than unreels engine fee in the first place so... a bit of a storm over nothing. That said the place is still rotten to the core, which brings it's own issues.

It's not just the CEO. The place is rotten to the core. The board of execs is full of IronSource goons, a former malware developer.

Read. Not all of this is true, but enough is to be damning:

Why am I NOT suprised another Israeli company is yet again the center of some controversy. I did suspsect there were other execs in the mix on this B$ But that Reolof is a proper c*nt, I dispise PayPay with a passion and refuse to deal it and find work arounds where ever possible. But him and Egon having ties back to musk just confirms what a pair meat sacks the pair of them are.

Didnt expect an alternative view on John though, that said he wasnt the only one to dump shares before the announcement - https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/u/insider-activity. This stinks of illeagal insider trading and some investors have already kicked off court proceedings, well before the september announcement - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/unity-software-leaders-accused-of-insider-trading-on-bad-metrics