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An open letter to our community | Unity Blog

An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023. 

Key takeaways:

-Unity Personal remains free

-Any game making less than $1mil in revenue over the previous 12 months won’t be subject to the fee

-Games made using versions of Unity prior to the next LTS release will not incur the fee

-Games made prior to 2024 will no longer incur the fee unless they update to using a version of Unity released after the fees are introduced

-Devs effected by the fee will be given the choice between a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated runtime fee, both of which will rely on self-reporting, rather than some invasive means of recording user data

I’d call this a win, and I think anyone working on current projects in Unity are safe to continue doing so, but the biggest issue remaining is how this really showed their hand in how they consider their business decisions and disregard their clients in that process.

I’ve made little progress in learning how to use Unity over the ~6 years I’ve worked with it, so I can comfortably say I’m going to switch to feebly trying to figure out an open source engine, and while I do think leave-if-you-can is the safest option in the long term, I can deeply appreciate the effort and time it takes to gain proficiency in even a single engine for a lot of people.

If devs choose to stick with Unity either because it’s what they know or because their projects lock them into committing to it, don’t harass them or badger them into switching engines — I’ve already seen this happening with people with little actual skin in this game turning using Unity into some sort of moral wrong and that’s deranged!

made a statuette

little living room

noodling around with animating in photoshop for like a day

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holy shit the new unity pricing plan

it's easier to apply for jobs than ever! so what if you lost your insurance, anyone can get a job these days, even without meds. everyone is hiring! there's a "good employee" shortage!

well you just need to revamp your resume, here's a paid app subscription that can read it for you. rewrite the cover letter they won't read. google jobs in my area and then scrawl through Monster/Indeed/worbly. did you want to save the search? this was posted 98 days ago. over 1 billion applicants! this position is trending.

jobs i actively like doing and get paid for. your search returned no results. easy-apply with HireSpin! easy apply with SparkFire! easy apply with PenisFlash! with a few short clicks, get your information stolen.

watch out! the first 98 links on google are actually scams! they're false postings. oopsie. that business isn't even hiring. that other one is closed permanently. find one that looks halfway legit, google the company and the word "careers". go to their page. scroll past brightly-lit diversity stock photo JOIN US white sans serif. we are a unique, fresh, client-focused stock value capitalism. we are committed to excellence and selling your soul on ebay. we are DRIVEN with POWER to INNOVATE our greed. yippee! our company has big values of divisive decision making, sucking our dicks, and hating work-life balances. our values are to piss in your mouth. sign here and tell us if you have gender issues so we can get ahead of the sexual harassment claim. are you hispanic although let's be real we threw out the resume when we saw your last name.

sign up to LinkHub to access updates from this company. make a HirePlus account to apply. download the PoundLink app. your account has been created, click the link we sent you in 15 minutes. upload that resume. we didn't read the resume, manually fill in the lines now. what is your expected pay grade. oh actually we want hungry people, not people driven by a salary. cut a zero off that number, buddy, this is about opportunity, and we need to be thrifty. highest level of education. autofill is glitching. here is an AI generated set of questions. what is your favorite part of our sexy, sexy company. how do you resolve conflict. will you get our company logo tattooed on your person. warning: while our CEO is guilty of wage theft, we will absolutely refuse to hire a nonviolent felon.

thank you for your interest at WEEBLIX. we actually already filled this position internally. we actually never had that posting. we actually needed you to have 9 years of experience and since you have 10 years we think it might be too many? we'll be texting you. we'll email you. we'll keep your resume. definitely absolutely we won't just completely ignore you. look at your phone, there's already a spam text from Bethany@stealyouridentity. they're hiring!

wait, did you get an interview? well that's special, aren't you lucky. out of 910 jobs you applied to, one answered, finally. and funny story! actually the position isn't exactly as advertised, we are looking for someone curious and dedicated. it's sort of more managerial. no, the pay doesn't change - you won't have any leadership title. now take this 90 minute assessment. in order to be a dog groomer, we need you to explain cell biology. in order to be a copyeditor, write a tiny dissertation about the dwindling supply of helium on the planet. answer our riddles three. great job! we just need to push this up to Tracy in HR who will send it to Rodney who is actually in charge. and then of course it's jay's decision and then greg will need to see you naked and if you survive you'll be given a drug test and a full anal examination.

and of course you'll be hungry this whole time, aren't you, months and months of the same shit. months of no insurance, no meds, no funding, barely able to afford the internet and the phone and the rent - all things you need in order to even apply for our thing. but do it again! do it again and again and again, until you flip inside out and turn into a being of pure dread!

you're not hired yet because you're lazy. there's over one million AI-generated hallucinated jobs in your area. don't worry. with zipruiter, hiring and firing is easier than ever. sign up. stay on-call.

in the meantime, little peon - why don't you just fucking suffer.

Kamen Rider Gay???

30 Days until Devil May Cry drops on netflix!

A bunch of artists got together to do a countdown so keep an eye on @dmccountdown here on tumblr or over on twitter/bluesky to see everyone's work!