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Shay The Skunk @shay-the-skunk9/12/2023, 11:11 PM

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Serial Experiments Lynn @lynndrumm9/12/2023, 10:40 PM

"Just switch to another engine!"

I'm seeing this sentiment around with regards to the whole unity clusterfuck, but... do people not understand just how much work that is? It's not impossible, but it's not like you just drag-n-drop your assets into a different folder and click "compile".

It would be an enormous undertaking many devs can't afford (time and money wise) just for things currently in development, let alone things that have already been released.

Unless they roll this back, games are going to disappear, or never appear at all.

#unity #gamedev

Serial Experiments Lynn @lynndrumm9/12/2023, 10:42 PM

This is going to turn into a preservation nightmare too now that I think of it. I hope people are starting to archive any and all Unity games right now. Because i know there's plenty devs who will wait for this to get rolled back, but there might still be plenty who will just straight up take their work offline forever regardless of the long term outcome of this whole ordeal

#unity #gamedev #preservation

Mando @ADeerNamedMando9/12/2023, 10:54 PM

this needs to be stated again:

if forced into the position of doing a lot of administrative accounting and potentially paying more than the game made, a lot of devs will just delete their games from the internet.

#and a lot of devs just won't want to deal with the potential even if it's rolled back

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Saul @saul9/13/2023, 12:15 AM

I don't want to gatekeep indie-ness anymore than it already is. But the "just change engines" argument is so drastically different for solo hobby devs vs commercial teams (however small).

Like the only way commercial devs function is by capitalizing on their experience in the engine, and carrying with them huge amounts of tools and pipelines from project to project. Plus the margins are often so thin that asking "let's rebuild all that infrastructure for a new engine" is borderline comical.

Serial Experiments Lynn @lynndrumm9/13/2023, 12:40 AM

Same problem, different scope, really.

Plum @plumpan9/15/2023, 5:57 PM

Some people REALLY be showing their whole Gamer ass saying stuff like this. "They should have just written their own engine!" "All of this news is going to lead to more creative games because of the stress!" and other such bullshit.

We really shouldn't allow Gamers to talk about video games anymore.

in reply to @lynndrumm's post:

Lizardguy @Lizardguy649/12/2023, 11:31 PM

Hate to say it, but unless someone is ready to raise an army to storm the fortress of Unity's parent company, that may honestly be the only worthwhile option.

I know it's not as simple as a button press, but for once hard work can pay off here.

Remi Erin Autor the remeranAuthor @remeranAuthor9/13/2023, 12:54 AM

Generally if an answer to a complaint starts with the word "just" then they are either unaware of how tough that will be or they are being sarcastic, yeah.