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  • They were willing to fuck over some people and drive them completely out of business.

    Which people? Developers. The very people that helped make Unity what it is. Unity wanted to completely crush their own developers. Some estimates put Unity’s fees higher than 100% revenue in some scenarios.

    Them back-tracking and saying “wow! we didn’t expect this to be so hated!” shows that they either don’t understand numbers (they do) or that they think their users are idiots.

    So why would developers want to come back to them?






  • If you’re building systems, I would assume you’re the kind of person that knows how they work.

    • The system tells you what CPU it has on boot.

    • The BIOS tells you what CPU you have.

    • MemTest86 would have told you what CPU you had when you tested it after assembling your system.

    • Windows tells you what you have in Settings > About and Task Manager.

    • Apps like CPU-Z have been downloaded a billion times and tell you what CPU you have.

    • Geekbench would have told you what CPU you have and how it performs.

    The article mentions someone paying a bunch for a specific CPU back in April, but then never bothered actually checking it until recently… What the CPU had written on it is meaningless. I couldn’t even tell you what my current CPU looked like before I installed it. It could have said Pentium 2 or 486SX or Core i-13. What mattered was that it physically fit, the system booted, and my software said “yup, this is what you paid for.”





  • As of April 2022, Blizzard had apparently sold over 50,000,000 copies of Overwatch. That means it is one of the best-selling games of all time. That is over 50,000,000 copies now gone. Of course you’re going to hear a LOT of complaints.

    Were any of those other games you’re talking about as big as Overwatch? Were they as successful as Overwatch? I really doubt they had anywhere near the player-base as Overwatch.

    Lots of companies switch games around. Many times it’s because they are financially hurting or otherwise need a way to increase funding.

    Blizzard had a massive hit and also promised updates to make the game even better.

    After years and years of promising this, Blizzard basically told all their customers psych.

    Not only was the big PvE mode not coming, they very game they were already playing all these years was also going away.