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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle (www.wired.com)

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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle::Even though the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial new fee policy, the damage is done.

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[-] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

They were willing to fuck over some people and drive them completely out of business.

Which people? Developers. The very people that helped make Unity what it is. Unity wanted to completely crush their own developers. Some estimates put Unity's fees higher than 100% revenue in some scenarios.

Them back-tracking and saying "wow! we didn't expect this to be so hated!" shows that they either don't understand numbers (they do) or that they think their users are idiots.

So why would developers want to come back to them?

[-] Postcard64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

John Riccitello literally called developers "fucking idiots" in an interview, so yeah, it's the second option.

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