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I suggest you also pay attention to when a game’s development was begun as it’s no simple task to switch engines mid development. Still, your wallet, your call.
Gotcha, wasn’t sure if you meant shipped or started. We’re on the same page then
This guy out here thinking it takes less than a year to develop and release a game
Well you know that's what happens when your experience of gamedev ends at flash
Its not often you get a stark reminder that the people who play games genuinely know nothing about how they are made
Just feels weird to punish game devs for spending years of their life learning an engine ruined by circumstances outside their control (plus there were no signs Unity would come close to downfall back then)
I had friends in Digipen's gamedev course and they paid for torturous nights and their final year on it, what a damn waste.
Being able to pivot is an important part of being a software developer. Technologies come and go faster than careers do.
That is a truly daft take. Ability to pivot is a useful skill in software development but that means moving from one engine to another for your future projects, not to port an existing game over to another engine, that's a completely different task to learning a new engine and making future projects in that new engine.
They made a decision that is bad for game developers and your response is to punish ... game developers?
I don't see the problem with this. I won't buy anything from EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc.
The logic that I'm "harming game developers" by NOT buying something is absolutely an asinine statement. I am not required to buy something if I disagree with their decisions.
If I don't buy a gas car this year because I don't like petrol use, am I "Harming Automakers"? See how stupid of an argument that is?
Obviously you can buy and not buy whatever you want, but usually if you're going to boycott a business, you would pick the one whose decisions you disagree with (Unity), not the victims (game developers)
Yes, but gamers don't buy game engines, they buy games. And part of the money they payed for the games goes to the engine creator. If you want to boycott unity, you have to boycott games made in unity.
Maybe, wait until they start their next game, and see if they've moved away from unity.
Maybe, do some research and find out what the specific situation is before you buy.
Maybe, don't hurt the people who were hurt by the situation.
But definitely this comment is for others, not you, since your mind is made up.