Unity and IronSource merge (IronSource was known to distribute malware without attention to user)

[warm portal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-made-a-malware-installer/

Also some writeups on that company before:
https://www.benedelman.org/news-021815/
https://blog.infostruction.com/2018/10/26/adware-empire-ironsource-and-installcore/

[kindred solstice]

Man, yea, as they say... WTHeck, Unity?

[zealous condor]

This really sucks.

[rose abyss]

This is one of the clearer guesses for reasons I found: https://mobiledevmemo.com/why-are-unity-and-ironsource-merging/

[kindred solstice]

So mobile and ads? Not much there of use/interest to developers like you. 😦

I guess everything does go to where the money is.

[eager geode]

I would say it's not just the developers who are hurt of this, but everybody who was part of making Unity to what it is now (their former employees/sponsors/what not)

[warm portal]

well users also might be concerned of it, what is to become of unity in future

2 articles i sent are literally 3 years apart what shows that issue was real for extremly long so i don't have any form of trust that since 2018 anything changed

[ocean crypt]

this is like feeding cancer instead of curing it (mobile market)

[kindred solstice]

not making excuses, but from (KC's?) article, the strings are being pulled by large Venture Capital funds. It's most likely primarily their doing.

[warm portal]

oh and CEO of unity keeps delivering

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/

[ocean crypt]

this doesn't look good for unity

[rose abyss]

...the number one form of gaming is mobile. And when you’re in mobile, you’re driven by in-game advertising. Yeah, that sums up how Unity sees the world. It's their world, but I don't know if it is THE world. For unity, mobile is their number one source of revenue. For me it isn't. For Valve it isn't. For a bunch of AAA studios it isn't. But, given Epics growth with desktop game studios and Unity's growth with mobile studios, I can see why Unity frames their gaming world as mobile first. What it means for the Unity engine over time... that will probable start to become more apparent over the next year

[rose abyss]

And this post from one of the Unity forum mods. His signature indicates he might not see the world Unity's way either 🙂 https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-announces-intent-to-join-forces-with-ironsource.1308219/#post-8275614

[ocean crypt]

heh

[zealous condor]

oof, unity stock dropped 27%

oh, but that's been a trend for the past year

[kindred solstice]

Someone made a new Unity Start button (I think it was posted on Twitter) Does not conform to normal posting standards.

[zealous condor]

yes. I want to be a man of the people.

so... does GODOT do C# yet?

[eager geode]

Yes https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/introduction/introduction_to_godot.html#programming-languages

[zealous condor]

I guess its time to learn Godot

[eager geode]

oops, sorry for ping

[zealous condor]

don't worry about it. its something I wanted to know

[ocean crypt]

from what i've read people saying, godot 2d is pretty good, 3d is lacking but is getting better in upcoming version 4, but even then will probably not be nearly as fully featured as unity

[zealous condor]

I'm still working in 2D 😂 (when I do work)

[warm portal]

Yeah godot is pretty good in 2D

version 4 will have tons of 3D features on Vulkan support

for 3D there is also Open 3D engine (engine that powers New World for example)