Unity Pulls an Adobe! No more permanent licenses and 4x the price

[Farage]

So this just happened: http://blogs.unity3d.com/en/2016/05/31/new-products-and-prices/
Unity announced a new price policy with some really crazy stuff
They dropped the permanent licenses and are removing all the existing ones from 2017 and forward
On top of that, they extended the period of the monthly licenses to a year and made some really weird tiers that makes no sense
Everyone is losing their collective mind over this and as Unity tries to make this look better it keeps going downhill
Other than that, theres also this:

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/06/02/do-you-want-to-make-your-studio-more-diverse/
So, let me see this straight
Unity is suddenly going with :incloosive: policies?
What a surprise... right guys?
Here are the new prices by the way:

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[Severian Silk]

RIP Unity

 

[Explorerbc]

Na'Tosha Bard

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[Yaar Podshipnik]

Are the pictures in that blog post from unity offices? Suddenly our open plan office doesn't look that horrible...

 

[Drax]

Yep, they went bananas.

 

[Latro]

I blame na tash ah

 

[Mustawd]

Na'Tosha Bard

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Wow. Now that is what I call pink.

 

[Excidium II]

 

[Davaris]

I left them six months ago, but not after they extracted a few hundred bucks from me - a sucker is born every minute. They market themselves as indie friendly but their asset store contract is hostile to online teams. The cost of their engine is nothing compared to that.

 

[FuriousGamer87]

Inb4 Tencent start laughing and begin to follow suit with Unreal.

 

[DakaSha II]

http://haxeflixel.com/

Real codexers dont need 3d anyways.

 

[DosBuster]

This won't affect Unity's market share, I'd say Unity is easier to pick up for small projects compared to Unreal which is more suited for large projects.

 

[Excidium II]

This won't affect Unity's market share, I'd say Unity is easier to pick up for small projects compared to Unreal which is more suited for large projects.

Why's that?

 

[Farage]

If this kind of decision goes forward, it will affect their finances.
This is the discussion board on their forums so far:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/new-products-and-prices-coming-soon.408046/

 

[Ellef]

Na'Tosha Bard

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Unbelievable, i'd roll my eyes at a parody so hamfisted. Pink haired dykes not happy until they ruin everything.

 

[DosBuster]

C#, from my experience, is a simpler language than C++ (you dont have to worry as much about memory and how its allocated like with C++) plus Unity has a lot of Asset Store tools that Unreal hasn't that make development easier and faster for the sole-indie.

 

[Davaris]

This won't affect Unity's market share, I'd say Unity is easier to pick up for small projects compared to Unreal which is more suited for large projects.

Why's that?

It depends how your mind works. If you like visual programming you can pick it up fast. This guy can't program and said he failed with Unity, yet moved to Unreal and made Turn Based Tool Kit in 1 year. See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/knuteiliv/videos

He's a very bright guy though. Is working on his PhD at some Ivy League University I think.

I personally can't cope with Blueprints. For anything complex it looks like chaos, so I'm hoping Skookum Script will take off at Unreal.

 

[Excidium II]

So you can't just write, gotta use blueprints for everything?

 

[Davaris]

So you can't just write, gotta use blueprints for everything?

You can use C++ if you want. Last year I swear it took 20 seconds to compile anything, now it seems like 5 seconds.

The problem is most of the assets are in Blueprints, so I've only bought two. Skookum is free to use, has all the Blueprint function calls replicated, but its still in beta.

 

[DosBuster]

I believe how Epic intends for C++ & Blueprints to be used is that you use C++ for entire systems and connect that to blueprints for scripting out specific instances using the system your wrote in C++. You can make your own blueprint nodes and all so you can extend blueprints to do a wide variety of things, it all depends on how you use it.

 

[Zanzoken]

People who spell common names in weird ways get on my nerves.

Your name is Natasha bitch, adding an apostrophe doesn't make you unique or special.

 

[Davaris]

I believe how Epic intends for C++ & Blueprints to be used is that you use C++ for entire systems and connect that to blueprints for scripting out specific instances using the system your wrote in C++. You can make your own blueprint nodes and all so you can extend blueprints to do a wide variety of things, it all depends on how you use it.

Yep you can use BP a little or use all BP to make your games. This guy used almost all C++ to make a survival template.
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Survival_sample_game

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Looks like Unity has gone full EA.

 

[Bester]

In the meantime, at the studio that makes an actual engine https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-12-released

 

[Chamezero]

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