- May 27, 2017
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Even if true that's more time spent on it than many AAA games...
another dev became too famous and got the road of Iccstor and Darkcookie
it's very very sad...
More than a year waiting for the next update. It's a joke or something?
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- Dec 27, 2017
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You only start paying if the game has been downloaded 200,000 times AND makes $200,000 per year. Unity has now backtracked and stated that only one download per device will be counted, but still, very few Unity games around here make $200,000 per year. But say you get lucky, upgrade to Unity Pro and that threshold moves to $1,000,000 revenue per year, at which point you can probably afford to pay for the engine!
- Dec 27, 2017
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Where did they say that? As of right now
You must be registered to see the links
EDIT: Ah found it, the typical "foot in the door technique".
Streaming services like Xcloud/Amazon Luna/PS Now have to pay, they have million of servers, new one are added and old one are replaced, that is million of servers.
How is the device identity established? I can just use a Sandbox or a Virtual Machine, multiple istances of "different" hardware, rent a VPN or a botnet.
What if the server that has to receive this data is under DDOS attack, does this force developer to make every Unity game connected to the internet? If they allow you to play offline are they going against the TOS?
I feel sorry for any Patreon dev.
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- Jul 19, 2017
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you pay you publish you can not pay you vanish this is how i see it. also i do not see a game here to make 1 000 000 $ a year.
Yeah this is definitely a blow to Game Dev, and not only for these types of games. Any kind of game that a studio might hope to take off could be in trouble if it's being self published and doesn't have the backing of a larger company - success (and that for a traditional game could be less copies than we'd think) now has a cost that takes this great engine and makes it smeared in feces really.
- Jun 29, 2018
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While I like this game more than most, I'm very glad than I'm not a patron even tho I was so hyped when I first found this. Paying whole year to have privilleges(like early release... ONCE A YEAR) equals basically cost of entire finished game, and this one is there 3 years already? I'm not gonna give my money regularly for the sake of someone barely working. Finish it and sell as whole, then we'll talk about paying.
- Feb 7, 2019
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Well tbf, you can always stay at a low tier, like 10€ Year and only switch to the tier that provides the game once it releases.I do it like this with many games since there is now way i pay 120€ a year to get 3 updates, even AAA games aren't that expensive
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I wonder how they'll measure revenue. Most patreon devs would probably go under the radar and thus wouldn't have to pay. Otherwise yeah, it's pretty iffy. And yeah, games are gonna be always-online now, unless they pay for the enterprise tier, which I doubt many devs on here would do.
That being said I bet Unity will walk it back, it's too much of a PR disaster, they have to.
Changing contract like that is illegal, and some really big games like pokemon go & CoD mobile uses it. So, that’s both Microsoft Activision and Nintendo in court + a potential group of smaller devs.
- Sep 22, 2017
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I wonder what will happen to this game if the geniuses at unity don't walk back on their decision... Is there actually any advantage in making a game like this in unity instead of just using renpy like pretty much every other visual novel on this forum?
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Unless this game meets the set thresholds, it will be unaffected. However, I really feel there is no reason to use Unity over Ren'Py for a game like this.