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We hve reached ‘Credible' Death Threat levels of indie devs mad as Unity closes two offices
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Nibble on my 13th finger if YOU are
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no more deserving of a target, tbh
https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-steps-down-larry-probst-becomes-executive-chairman
PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO RELOAD
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Holy based
G*mers deserve far worse and you cucks keep paying for this
Pay up gamie
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Unironically games are so undermonetized
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G*mers don't realize how good they have it. The potential hours of entertainment per dollar with video games, even modern AAA slop, is higher than any other form of entertainment media that's sold. This isn't even considering replayability, game resale, buying older games for cheap, or free-to-play models.
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Not mobile games lol thats for sure
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same threats cloudflare found on KF
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Something that riles jimmies this much? For sure there were threats called in.
Unity hamming it up as much as possible for free pity points to distract from their terrible decision? Duh. Free PR.
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It's "Investigation" singular
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The death threat:
Snappy gets it
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they targeted g*mers
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Worse.
They targeted Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Mihoyo (Genshit Impact) and possibly even EA.
These companies are famously litigious in the gaming world.
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Have they tried targeting someone smaller like I don't know the US government
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I didn't know Fedsey was an amateur vidya enthusiast
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The fact that the ceo sold his shares just before leads me to believe this change was to take Unity.
Anyways one of the unity games im watching closely is Rimworld. The devs havent made any statements but if they shutdown cause of this itll be a shitshow.
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He sold 2000 of his 3.2 million shares.
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oh. then its literally fricking nothing
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You said 'rim'
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They don't call it EatAssPlanet for nothing
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hehe
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IIRC rimworld barely used most unity stuff and does some super neurodivergent backend stuff for most of the game logic
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Tbf I get it
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"credible death threat" is code for bs non threat as cry babies ran the phrase death threat into the ground
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In uk and ireland its other way, cops will say its a credible threat and media will report that not the person getting the threat. Threats could still be trolling but judged coming from people that are genuinely threatening
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Lol fricking ban games fr fr
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Based. I wish sending credible death threats was a more common response
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I don't
Deeds not words
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GAME DEVS RISE UP
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These neighbors like Mitt Romney with "corporations are people"
How tf do you make a "death threat" against a company?
Shit doesn't even make sense.
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Unity should have just directly passed the costs on to the consumers. Dev's are their actual customer base who would not really care if Unity said: Games that are releasing from now on will require players to provide a license key to their Unity G*mers account that can be purchased for $1-3 dollars. The overhead needed to negotiate and litigate each of these retroactive payment deals with each dev has got to eat so much of their budget in the medium term anyway.
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Drink your installation can, g*mer
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That would still frick developers, especially the smaller ones who would lose players from having to deal with a Unity license fee that brought them no extra value. The whole point of these changes was to hide the costs from the consumers and hope devs would just eat the losses. Your idea is unironically a worse solution than the current model of charging devs.
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suck my dik
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Game devs are cute twinks who deserve to lose money to player piracy and corporate slash-and-burn policies.
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The world's most fearless reporter. At least we know the g*mers won't intimidate him into silence. I'm surprised Maria Ressa got the Nobel prize instead of him.
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BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ONE YOU SERVE
YOU'RE GOING TO GET WHAT YOU DESERVE
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Mid album
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This is the most neurodivergent music video I've ever seen.
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you can bet it was a redditor who made the death threat, they are all freaking the frick out over game publishers having to pay like a 20 cent per install fee. why the heck should i care that the game i paid $20-$30 for had to pay out a $0.20 fee?
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Retroactive
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All the answers were basically “trust us guys, we totally won't frick you on this” when there's really no reason to believe they can get accurate install numbers.
Also they said the game pass people will be paying the fee, meaning the game pass people will most likely drop the games.
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It's about ethics in the gaming community, SIR!
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because you only need to buy the game once then reinstall it 10000 times to drain the devs pockets
this isnt an exageration they actually admitted they had no way to stop you from doing it
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Why do people act like death threats are some kind of a big deal? I deal them out all the time
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