Drama around an unpopular solution Unity continues. Already more than a hundred developers have openly opposed the company. Meanwhile, employees Unity receive threats by murder, and some specialists leave the company.
Recall that on September 12, the authors of the Unity engine said that they would charge an additional fee from the game developers for the number of project installations. According to company managers, the new fee will affect only 10 % of the developers community. The emphasis of Unity makes that the new collection enters into force only after reaching a certain threshold of installations and income of the studio.
Even the recent explanations of the provisions of the new policy could not repay the discontent that arose in the community of developers. Already over 110 studios publicly expressed their protest, demanding the cancellation of the decision. Among them are the authors of AMONG US, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Cult of the Lamb, Human Fall Flat, Road to Vostok, Darkest Dungeon 2, Phasmophobia, Rust, Slay the Spire and not only.
Group boycott Unity announced the creators https://casino-666.co.uk/ of mobile games. They disconnected in their projects to monetization mechanics from Unity and Ironsource. Developers demand to return the previous policy of payments and refuse to pay for the number of attitudes of their projects. Over 20 studios have already joined the initiative.
Threats
Two offices of the company Unity I had to close the day after September 14 John Richitello (John Riccitiello) I saw a post with threats. The content of the message was not shown publicly. But it was reported that it was about violence or even murder.
Later on the same day, the San Francisco police established that the threat came from one of the employees Unity, but from another state.
Dismissal
Ex-employee of the company Johno Forbes (Jono Forbes) shared on social networks that he left Unity After seven years of work, just because of the announcement of the new fee policy. According to him, many employees convinced the leadership not to make hasty decisions.
I assure you, we struggled with this decision, raised the problems that everyone is talking about now. We were informed that they would give answers, but the announcement of a change in a business model was released without warning. Those of us who do not care have left the company. By the end of the week of dismissal, there will be even more.
Johno Forbes
It is not yet clear how events will develop. As reported, the co -founder Innersloth Forest Willard (Forest Willard), which managed to discuss the situation with representatives Unity, The authors of the engine do not intend to turn back. The company is ready to make concessions and revise a number of provisions of a new business model, but there is no question of refusing to pay for the number of attitudes.
In the meantime, some developers say that they will no longer use Unity for their next games, even if old conditions and tariffs return.
