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Half-Life 3 may not be happening, but what MIGHT happen is the 3rd complete rewrite of Stramedia: my_MISADVENTURE from scratch because of a tantrum of yet another fucking elderly white cishet dumbass.

And it isnt a secret to anybody that this game is currently being developed using the Unity game engine which was formerly praised for its accessibility literally for anybody to make any videogame they would come up with hell, even make a full-on fuckin movie! But all that is now going to disappear starting January 1st 2024, because John Riccitiello a complete fucking nut job who was SOMEHOW picked to be a current CEO of Unity Technologies in spite to his prior career history and the rest of the companys upper management collectively decided that it was a good idea to announce without prior warning that starting next year, if any commercial game reaches one of the two certain thresholds their developers will have to pay a fee for every purchased copy installed, regardless of whenever theyve already purchased either already-astronomically costly "Pro" and "Enterprise" licenses or not. And as extra insult to injury, developers using the free "Personal" and recently discontinued "Plus" licenses will have to pay a higher monthly rate per installed copy. You can probably tell just how nefarious this surprise change sounds on paper, especially taking in mind that many developers using the Personal Unity license are hobbyist game developers and passionate artists,some of which are currently living in harsh conditions (e.g. the ongoing war in Ukraine, varying natural disasters) that render any sort of fee payment processes impossible either due to issues of greater concerns that affect aforementioned developers survival, or just not being able to repay Unity shit due to option limitations occurring as a result of imposed sanctions. When you put it like that, makes you think that the Unity executives didnt think about that at all, have they? If such change in their fee policy was made last year when Ive made a switch to Unity due to one of the aforementioned circumstances, Stramedia: my_MISADVENTURE would have been shelved or officially canceled after 6 years of development hell in order to prioritize escaping Russia with what little I would have had around that time. Today, even if I have finished Stramedia and put it up on Steam, I still wouldnt pay John even the smallest scrap of my revenue based on what could be a made up number, even if I were able to. (All that money would go towards Disasters Emergency Committee instead - https://www.dec.org.uk/) Regardless of whenever the Unity execs revert this change or not, I alongside other fellow game developers feel like the damage has already been done, and they cannot earn our trust back this time. So, my current plan is to finish the new special demo I started making in Unity and leaving it at that, and proceed with switching to yet another game engine joyous fuckin day. But I am not going to do so right away. I will be needing your special approval first. Because I now know I cannot make this game possible on my own anymore with all this kind of shit happening. See you whenever I decide to start a Kickstarter campaign or something. Go fuck yourself, John Riccitiello. You should have gone into a retirement house instead of whatever the fuck youre doing right now.[/expand] Follow the project on Twitter ~ Mastodon ~ BlueSky (in you have access to it)

[ 2023-09-14 16:50:57 CET ] [ Original post ]