• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle






  • I do not think this is a place for consumer action. It is good the devs are running their awareness campaign for gamers. If a dev releases a game made in Unity in 2025 it is because they have made the decision that it is the best course of action for their business. Maybe they have a B2P or subscription model that makes the runtime cost more sustainable over throwing out N years for development effort.

    At the end of the day Unity is a business to business product. The developers are the customer, not the players. If Unity’s new pricing and business practices don’t make sense to developers then developers will no longer use it and Unity will fail without player intervention.

    I don’t think your goal is to further hurt the devs. Boycotting games made with Unity is throwing the baby out with the bath water.





  • That’s the thing though. I think this attitude is incredibly pervasive in tech more broadly. No one hires juniors. They don’t want to train and invest in inexperienced employees. Instead firms will hire seniors, milk them for every hour they are willing to dedicate.

    Those that care give it their all and burn out after only a couple years. Especially when they see their extra efforts go unrewarded. The burnt husk of a human that comes out the other end will usually quit for greener pastures and the chance to start fresh where they are hopefully recognized. They are now someone else’s problem.

    Then you end up with the poor souls that have experienced this cycle 2-3 times, don’t give a shit and just coast by giving the firm the minimum effort to avoid a bad performance review.

    Unfortunately I think the current tech culture is very hostile to anyone who is young or cared.