Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that?
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  • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    2 years ago

    I have been a developer professionally and exclusively using Unity for 17 years. Yesterday, I installed Unreal Engine. I’m doing as many tutorials as I can this weekend.

    I have no faith now that there will be enough studios willing to use Unity to sustain a career based on it.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    2 years ago

    Hey unity specialist programmers, if you want to boost your career out of this, learn another engine asap focusing on “how to do cool things I could do in unity in the other engine” and then market yourself as a “unity exit programmer” that specializes in converting projects from unity to different engines.

    Your expertise still has value, you just need to pivot its direction.

    Edit: extra word removed

    • Shapillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      2 years ago

      That’s one of the smartest things I read all day (outside of the Rust book and sdl2 doc :p)

  • Lunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    2 years ago

    There’s discussions about stopping the teaching of Unity in Universities too.

  • 30mag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    If you’re planning on screwing someone around, make sure it is legal before you announce it.

    • HerrLewakaas@feddit.deEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

      I hope it’s illegal in the EU. Getting fined for a couple billions would put that piece of trash CEO in his place lol

      • Bigmouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        It really wouldnt tho. There is a huge segmebt of C-Suite guys who are unashamedly going for that bag, no matter what happens to the company or its products once they are gone. This guy is one of the more prolific assholes of that sort.

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    One of the most important things in a tool line this is long term stability. Unity just showed anyone intending to use their engine they are not a stable choice. I wanted to use unity for a recent project and found unreal engine terms more acceptable for my use case before these changes. Now there is no competition.