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The Unity Runtime Fee spells disaster for students and teachers (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As much as I hate the changes (I uninstalled Unity for the last time), this doesn't actually address how it's bad for students or teachers as opposed to everyone else.

The terms are certainly fine for both of them because unless they get a really lucky break, none of them are making more than 200k per year with it. (And let's not forget you can just upgrade to pro for the year and push that to $1mil.)

That said, I do think that teachers should switch to another engine. Godot is free and has basically the same concepts, and UE has really good terms and is more powerful.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's more of a disaster of choosing Unity for new stuff.

While it was "almost" a no-brainer to use Unity in the past for student projects, this change among other negative stuff/press that happened with Unity etc. in the younger past slowly presses you towards e.g. Godot, since it can do as much as Unity can (at least in the beginning, as you're not hitting the limits of it) and is more in line with the academic way of thinking (not pressing charges for pretty much everything that is possible to press charges for...)

As I have used Unity extensively in the past, the amount of progress is dwarved by e.g. Unreal. It has not really made significant progress over the last (lets say) ~5 years, compared to Godot and Unreal (and soon Bevy when they have an editor/UI for better workflow for artists etc.).

So I don't see a long-term future for Unity, most of the "progress" of Unity was buying in technology that doesn't really feel organic in the Unity ecosystem (not just buying in, e.g. the ECS of Unity doesn't feel close as ergonomic compared to Bevys).

I think this slow and scattered progress will be the slow death sentence for Unity as other engines with less enshitification over the past will catch up, and don't have such a greedy dumbfu** of a CEO...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

well, he was an ex-EA CEO … trying to aim for that “sense of pride and accomplishment” when using Unity?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm a prof that has been teaching with unity for some time. I mainly feel bad for any student I've taught unity to that has had any modicum of success with it, because they are the ones harmed. Definitely switching over to godot the next time I run the class