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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's weird to me is that CEOs should know all about accounting and financials. He should have realized that this pricing model is unsustainable for most Unity developers, because many make less than what he's asking for per install themselves.

It's clear that professional CEOs don't know anything about tech, but this isn't a tech issue.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bet he justified it saying something cliche like gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Buzzword salad. Yum

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETTES HERE, JACK;

CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY EGG.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They absolutely do know. They’re well aware of the impact this will have on small devs. That was their goal. They want to price out those free or low cost games that use Unity and never make a profit to avoid paying royalty fees.

This wasn’t incompetence. It’s straight up malice.

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

They don't want to price out small devs, they want to get them onto their ad platform. They've said games that use their ad platform will have the fee waived.

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

Of course, he may not realize that this dries up one of the largest sources of the Unity developers the clients he does care about uses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Agree 100% same with reddit. Malice not incompetence