An open letter to our community | Unity Blog
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An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.

They’re still scumbags though

    • nous@programming.devEnglish
      161·
      2 years ago

      the engine costs several hundred million dollars to maintain

      I just don’t understand this. Godot is fairly comparable in scope and while it is behind Unity somewhat it also has a tiny fraction of the budget. Sometimes just throwing more money at a product does not make it any better any faster.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        2 years ago

        You’re not counting the several millions of dollars required for executive salaries yearly. Those executives are important because how else are you going to drain the life out of the developers who are actually maintaining the thing with useless meetings, bureaucracy, “cultural transitions”, and other forms of daily torment?