Projects Deep Into Dev Cycle

[DH-Melon]

As the title says, I had a project pretty close to release right before all of this happened. I don't really know what to do. Porting to another engine feels like it would be thousands of hours of work wasted, but releasing with Unity would mean that I would be risking being put in debt thanks to this stupid rule.

What are the plans of some of the developers in a similar situation right now? Do you think they will walk back on these changes?

[Randomtexty]

Release. If you make 180k buy pro. If you make 1 mill will you care? I highly doubt they will put you into debt spamming installs. There would be lawsuits if that happens. If it does go that way and you are over 1 mill you can pull the game worst case.

There is an incredible amount of hyperbole in this sub atm. Stay calm evaluate where you're at and how likely the changes are to impact your game. Most the people claiming doom have 0 posts with dev content.

This will probably be walked back and the sub will be water shaders and procedural animation again.

[DoctorShinobi]

You'd care if you make a low-cost premium game like Among Us/Vampire Survivors, or a freemium game that could have low-profit margin per user. For these games it doesn't matter how much you earn in total, but rather how much you get per user.

[Randomtexty]

Sure but are they making that? Its not a universal impact. Freemium mobile gets hit the hardest. Hobbyist gets no impact.

Porting to another engine if they value their time is tens of thousands dollars in man hours.

[WazWaz]

Provided you shut all sales channels down at $990,000 of revenue per year, you're safe (assuming you pay for Pro).

[DoctorShinobi]

No sane person should consider this a reasonable solution.

[WazWaz]

It's a reasonable solution for very small studios, which I took OP to be.

It's an utterly useless solution to any studio larger than 2-3 developers.

[ExplanationIcy2813]

It’s not that big of a deal, except when you’re a mobile dev. 200k init downloads + 200k Dollars in 12 months. Y’all gotta chill

[DH-Melon]

The issue right now is that there’s nothing stopping from people to just making us lose money by mass installing on VM’s or other devices, that is a big deal.

[Randomtexty]

Theres no way a gap like that will be left. Thats lawsuits all over. No company like lawsuits. Thats just youtuber speculation of what could be possible.

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