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It’s mostly likely an application of the Door in the Face technique where one makes a huge ask followed by a smaller, more well-received ask after the first is
by jimbob45 3y ago
It’s mostly likely an application of the Door in the Face technique where one makes a huge ask followed by a smaller, more well-received ask after the first is rejected.
Here, they put forward an unreasonable demand. Later, once the trolling emerges, they roll it back to be only on new devs with old devs keeping the old system. They get to seem like they “listened to the community” and the community ignores their still predatory pricing.
- somenameforme 3y agoI don't think they'll even wait for the trolling. Small/mid tier studios are not going to accept it because they literally cannot afford to. New developers aren't going to accept it, because it now creates a poor value proposition for an ecosystems who's primary selling point is 'lower capability, but easier than Unreal.' The only people that might be able to accept are those big high revenue studies, but those are also the exact group capable of 'negotiating' for better terms. Even if this is a just an effort to roll out some less oppressive changes with less backlash than doing so immediately would entail (because they can now frame this initially planned roll out as indeed 'listening to the community'), this really just has clueless MBA stamped all over it, because the brand/trust damage here is serious, and that for a ship that's already sinking.
- offices 3y agoThis at the cost of every customer seriously considering the value proposition of changing engine.