It won’t change Godot.

Epic donated $250,000 in 2020, Kefir donated $120,000 in 2021. Godot Devs started W4 games and raised $8.5m of which their goal is to support Godots growth.

$100,000 is nice and will allow them to continue but it’s not “league changing” money or anything for them.

They’ll stop updating the game whenever the Attack on Titan anime actually ends.

I love how they keep saying they will have a final update, and then they just keep updating it regardless. It’s really impressive.

And regularly on sale for $5.

Tbf it takes a significantly smaller team to develop a 2d platforming game like terraria. The overhead for art and design is mush simpler too than something like a Cyberpunk 2077

Nooo you don’t understand they’re just a small indie dev with less than 20 employees. They don’t have a bunch middle managers to pay exorbitant salaries to, or a team of underpaid artists churning out assets they can sell to players at basically infinite markup! They don’t need a whole team of programmers to build and update an in game cash shop, or a battlepass, or pointlessly integrate the product with blockchains, AI, and metaverse. They don’t have to call an all hands mandatory overtime crunch to fix all the bugs they had at release because it was shoved out the door early to juice some quarterly financials report.

If you were smart you’d realize that had game prices had kept up with inflation they would have been $70 like 10 years ago! No this doesn’t mean they were massively overcharging 10 years ago, the cost of production changed but only in a way that justified raising the price (which they never did until recently, out of generosity), never lowering it.

Same. I do game, just games like Terraria aren’t my taste, but I’ll still buy the game on my accounts to show my support to them.

Well said

I’m not a game dev but I’m a dev so I can easily see how this can affect them.

If you’re uninterested that’s fine, no need to insult those that do.

Well shit. Some people actually care about the people who produce whatever it is you consume. It’s crazy, I know. If the people who are growing the malt for my beer, or processing it, or delivering it, or whatever… are getting screwed over I would be equally concerned. But by all means, continue to be a consumer pacman just gobbling up whatever it is that falls in front of your face. That’s what the world is trying to mold you into anyway. Why fight it?

If the contractual details of malt distribution were going to affect the quality of beers you were getting then you absolutely would care. Unity’s pay scheme will lead to studios shutting down if there isn’t pushback. Studios switching to a different engine like Godot will make their games feel different for better or for worse and efforts to help fund these alternate engines will help tip the scale towards that being “for better”.

But most importantly of all, this is a company using toxic and predatory practices. Regardless of the industry (yes, malt distributors too), if we don’t push back against toxic business practices, then companies in many different industries will see avenues they can take advantage of to make extra money. These ideas don’t hang in isolation. If Unity’s scheme works, other businesses will learn from it. This is the reality of capitalism. Whatever methods can turn a profit without generating negative attention will be employed. It’s in the hands of consumers, competing businesses, and the government to keep those toxic practices in check. I mean, why the fuck are we on Lemmy? Ultimately Reddit’s actions are not going to affect the majority of users on their platform. Most of us came here to protest shitty business practices.

Hi. I’m a brewer. You might not care about malt distribution but maybe you can understand that a lot of breweries run on small margins. If we suddenly have to pay a lot more for malt we will either have to raise our prices or go out of business. Raising prices might also drive us out of business because less people will be inclined to buy our beer. So it does affect you as a consumer, whether you care or not.

I like coffee, but I prefer to source my beans from places I can trust. People lost trust in Unity so they ain’t gonna use the engine anymore. Blown out of proportion? Yeah maybe, but I agree with the core concept

This is not a great comparison tbh. Unity are not distributing a resource, you could rather compare them to a company building the motor for the car you use. Even as the end customer, their product is clearly perceivable and distinguishable from competitors’ products. You don’t need to build cars to have an opinion on Unity motors and the ethics of their business. And if they fuck every contractor over and abuse their power in the market to retroactively charge additional fees for every time someone starts a car with their motor in it, of course you would be directly hit with the consequences as a customer. Therefore, it is justified to not leave this discussion to car manufacturers, but to 1. let unity motors know that they can go fuck themselves and 2. to support more ethical motor manufacturers in the future by buying cars built with them.

It’s not corporate politics if it’s going to have an effect on the end users. You’d be surprised at how big of an impact this will have, if they don’t backpedal this and cancel it entirely, and even if they do it could still an impact.