Unity's new price structure and how it affects Godot

BinaryOrange

[quote author=Kiori link=topic=15572.msg16926#msg16926 date=1467075345]@BOYou will have to adjust to some concepts and ideas, but all in all it's a worth while task. I mean think about it, you'll be using a free open source engine, which is effectively yours and limit-free. So specially considering the long term, it's really worth it.[/quote]Yes, that is all what originally drew me towards Godot. The fact that it is free in every sense of the word was a huge "selling" point for me.  G: Thankfully, converting save systems hasn't been difficult at all. I realized I could really over-simplify the example and combine the save system with a Singleton class, so that all of the data is contained in one globally accessible script. I will probably post about it in my blog at some point this week after I test it more thoroughly, but for now it seems to be working. Related back to Unity in general, I wonder if someone should create a Unity to Godot guide to help users get more in-tune to Godot when they first open it up. I might write to the GameFromScratch guy and see what he thinks. I am horrid at writing any sort of tutorials, otherwise I would do it myself.

eye776

Frankly I forsee a lot of users who are not very invested (monetarily) in Unity (eg:it's their first/second project) will probably leave for Unreal, CryEngine (which is now also free) or any other of the umpteenth other similar C# engines on the market (Wave, Atomic, Shiva, Xenko). Some of them will probably also cross paths with Godot.In my experience, a lot of people don't even know Godot exists.Unity didn't become the powerhouse it is because it's the best/easiest to use engine (hasn't been since 2010). Word of mouth and the "Made with unity" splash screen.Godot has a lot going for it, its 2D prowess is nothing short of incredible.But it also has a lot of catching up to do on the 3D side.The inability to import "individual" skinned meshes is, personally, a big no-no for me.

zadig

My team once had to use unity in a 2 months project due to demands of the hiring part. In short, what we got for the many bucks the company was spending (considering it was a startup): ·Lots, I mean lots of bugs; ·Terrible costumer support - none of the bugs we reported were fixed; ·No cross-platform solution considering the entire team was composed of Linux users. I have nothing good to say regarding Unity - maybe only the fact that many good games were created using the engine, but that's not a technical merit. The first project I am creating using Godot faced none of the buggy issues I saw in Unity. It really is a matter of what the market is used to work with; Where I live (Brazil) I'd say 95% of the job positions in the gaming industry require Unity knowledge, the major part of to deal exclusively with Unity projects. I really hope this new pricing scheme scares people enough to create an Unity user-base migration.

Megalomaniak

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kiori</a> said:

I thought with the changes to "plus" removing the splash screen and revenue increase to 200k, now it's pretty good. You're talking $420 a year to do whatever you want in any platform in the engine, with all the features. If you're making real money off of games that's not too bad frankly. Until then you can use personal. I would choose Godot for other reasons, not financial. Reasons like engineering(I mentioned before), OSS, and frankly the fact that I have a bigger trust in the Godot devs, than in the Unity devs. Unity goes around i circles when adding new features...

</blockquote> werd. I did have a problem with their pricing model back when they came out with the subscription model(unity 4 IIRC), the fault wasn't entirely on their side though. I should have known better than to try and use my visa debit card I guess. I subscribed for a year with monthly subscription, about $800 per year. Now since I had previously used my debit card just fine to pay for things on steam and elsewhere I expected it to work fine but for some reason after the first monthly payment the automatic charges just wouldn't go through. So I contacted their support and after about a month I got a reply from their customer support saying that they can't help me and that I will be contacted by a third party to solve the issue. Another month later I finally got contacted by a guy from a US(WTH? I'm an EU citizen buying something from a EU branch of a company, the hell...) company who took another month to actually help me get the full years subscription payed via wire transfer, jeesh... by the time everything was sorted I was already 4 months in to my subscription and had only gotten to use unity pro for a month. Needless to say at that point I didn't really feel like doing anything with unity and haven't been back since. As for the reason I was going for the pro license: I found the indie versions renderer to be very limited for the sort of things I like to do. Now with godot I'm essentially back in that exact same point, still limited by the renderer but at least I know that a new renderer is on it's way and that I will get it when it's ready without $800(+ some assets/plugins I had purchased! Well over a K invested into it) strings attached. Mind you I'm the kind of OSS user who's willing to financially support the project. I have invested quite a bit into blender over the years for an example. But I do prefer to finance specific things if possible. I.E. Should there be some kind of fundraiser for the renderer work I'd be willing to support that.

SuryaSel

I'm not very sure of Unity's changes making Godot more popular. There's always the other behemoth called Unreal that people are gonna flock to. It has a massive presence, larger community, detailed docs and resources and lastly, absolute noobs (like me) who're jus' testing out the waters are just drawn in by the Visual Scripting interface (Blueprints) gets you prototyping right off the bat to some tangible result. This may not work out too well, though, in the long run, but that's not the point here. Both Godot and Unity, by the looks of it, need a little bit of patience till you actually see something even remotely resembling a game on screen, and this makes a huge difference when pandering to the potential userbase. Oh yeah, and I almost forgot...Hi to all here, I'm new to the forums and thought I'll hop in to find out more on the engine, which has really got me interested from what I've read and seen so far. Thought of making small games as a hobby but yet to decide on an engine, just testing the waters before diving. So I can definitely give you what a newcomer with zero experience feels like ;)

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