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Unity's self-combustion engine (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 1 year ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] money_loo@1337lemmy.com 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is like the dude who sells the pickaxes getting mad at the miners when they find gold. So he tries to incorporate some sort of pay per swing model. Absolutely horrendous idea if you don’t own the entire market on pickaxes.

[+] derin@lemmy.beru.co -11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more like the mine owner getting mad at the people who find gold, but it is overall a correct analogy. The issue is that, keeping up with the prior metaphor, there are no other viable gold mines in the area - so the owner has started to ask themselves "why shouldn't I charge more got access to my mine?"

[–] habanhero@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The pickaxe is a better analogy. Unity engine is a tool that devs could leverage to build a great selling game, and the price-per-swing is a nice way to encapsulate the absurdity of Unity's new fee structure.