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Why did/can game companies not protect themselves against this possible change of contract? I mean, if you spend millions on developing a game, taking two-thre
by nomercy400 3y ago
Why did/can game companies not protect themselves against this possible change of contract?
I mean, if you spend millions on developing a game, taking two-three years to develop, surely you try to tackle any risks that might endanger the project. For example, by fixing the price on the foundation of your game, i.e. the game engine.
This is a huge change in the way this game engine will be considered for new games. If now during the development and full lifetime of the game the contract rules can change, gamedev companies will start to avoid these kind of contracts.
With this one change Unity made it so that they can now no longer be trusted to keep the agreed upon contract terms intact for the lifetime of the game.
If only they said this would go in effect for new, not-already-in-development-and-paid-for-game-engine, projects from January 1st, it would have saved them this breach-in-trust issue.
- harimau777 3y agoA lot of games don't cost millions to develop. In particular, I associate Unity more with indy games rather than AAA. Those sorts of devs don't have a lot of leverage.
- philistine 3y agoCities: Skyline, Rust, Hearthstone, Cuphead, Disco Elysium, Kerbal Space Program. Those might not be the ginormous games you're thinking of but Unity is far from exclusively used by very small studios. Utlimately, I guess it's a question of definition: can you point me to a commonly agreed industry definition of AAA and indie?
- littlekey 3y agoFor what it's worth, I think Hearthstone in particular very much qualifies as "ginormous".
- philistine 3y agoBy the way, I learned that the latest Pokémon games, Shining Pearl and the other one are made with Unity. That is a 1000% ginormous. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/11/looks-like-pokemon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-are-unity-engine-games https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/11/looks-like-pokemon...