Yeah, I was sure that helmet in the picture was on the planet somewhere and that was the easter egg. but nope.

Starfield has an Easter Egg for Total Recall because they both feature Mars!!!

“Eridani II is the second planet in the Eridani star’s orbit”

I’m confused. The ‘Easter Egg’ is that a real planet exists in both games, which exist in reasonable facsimiles of ‘Real Life’?

And the supporting evidence is ‘both planets have Earth like biomes’?

John “you’re all fucking idiots” Riccitiello, former EA CEO, gets publicly slammed and shamed for his and other board member’s greed.

It should be added that Unity gets to decide what is a charity, so even though the profits may be donated to a charity Unity can just decide that they don’t actually consider it a charity and so it wouldn’t fall under the exemption.

And yet no matter what walking back they do at this point, merely showing they are able and potentially willing to make a change like this should remain a massive red flag to any developer.

Even if they decide to completely scrap this inane idea, they’re screwed. Who would ever trust them after this?

Don’t worry, the frog of shame has them covered:

lol they called devs angsty, they couldn’t even do the ole corporate apology without sliding in some accusatory bullshit

Wizards of the Coast did this not too long ago with their OGL “update”.

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a company so thoroughly come out of nowhere and shoot itself in the foot as hard as Unity has. 

It’s unsurprising that all of this is happening 3 years after Unity had an IPO and just 1 year after they took major investment from venture capital and private equity. This is classic short-term profit boosting at the expense of long-term brand value. It’s also predatory rent seeking behavior from a company looking…

including that charity games and bundles are excluded from fees

How interesting that the CEO also just sold a bunch of his shares in Unity this weekend... I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Wonder how this affects educational games. I’ve worked at a very large public university for the past 10 years, and a lot of my work involves developing games and VR interactives. I’ve been using Unity for most of the past decade for these types of projects, so I’m hoping this new model won’t affect things, but if it…

I guess I’m not surprised about this kind of shit, considering the CEO of Unity was previously CEO of EA

This seems like a great day for competing engines. Easy PR layup: just say “This install fee Unity will be doing? We will never do that.”

Well that’s... incredibly disappointing.