He sure made all of that money pumped into DNF disappear. He also turned a three year development cycle into 14 years which is also an impressive feat.
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Wait, no, he was involved with DNF development only after Gearbox bought the rights to the IP in 2010 after 3D realms went bankrupt. George Broussard is the person responsible for the long development and how most of the game turned out.
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I know but I just thought it would be a nice gag and I mean he did technically protract that development cycle. If nothing else I should have made a necromancer joke instead.
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Today a magic card trick, tomorrow a resurrection of a dead video game IP, the day after, using Aliens Colonial Marinesâ budget to finance Borderlands 2. Truly a powerful lich indeed.
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Well it looks like Unity want to go bust.
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A fee âper installâ?? Does that mean anytime someone deletes and reinstalls a game, theyâve just charged a developer twice to Unity? What??
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Yep! And they are counting retroactively as well so if you have bought a Unity game they are counting it.
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They ARE counting retroactively?! wait I swear I just read it wasnât um)
itâs pretty wild and scary thoughâŠ
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Some news might have changed since then, I heard but have seen that they were retroactively counting installs. So take that part with a grain of salt since you have found proof seemingly otherwise.
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Reminds me of how you had to re-buy Spore after 5 installs back in the day. No surprise it became the most pirated game ever.
And look at that, John Riccitiello was CEO at EA during that period.
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This might make comparable engines that used to be in the shadow of Unity to get much more popular, like Godot. Not sure Unity wants that. 
Q: Are these fees going to apply to games which have been out for years already? If you met the threshold 2 years ago, youâll start owing for any installs monthly from January, no? (in theory). It says theyâll use previous installs to determine threshold eligibility & then youâll start owing them for the new ones.
A: Yes, assuming the game is eligible and distributing the Unity Runtime then runtime fees will apply. We look at a gameâs lifetime installs to determine eligibility for the runtime fee. Then we bill the runtime fee based on all new installs that occur after January 1, 2024.
How is that even legal? Does the contract with Unity include âat any point we can decide to just demand money from you for reasons that are not made up yet.â?
Also: certified-huh-moment:
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This is the biggest nothing burger of an article Iâve read in recent time. Iâm trying to find this confirmation.
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Well, itâs still pretty early anyway. GTA 6 is the next game coming so we wonât know much about this for another five to ten years.
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Iâm seeing a LOT of people hyped for this.
Iâm like, eh? Cool?
Iâve only ever played Super Paper Mario on the Wii and even then I donât think I even finished the story 
Maybe Iâll check this one out though, the graphics look really good and Iâve heard its probably the most popular of the series.
That Princess Peach game looks nice too. I love the theatrical aspects of it
All in all, the major first-party stuff of this Nintendo Direct all seemed to be remakes of older IPs. (Paper Mario, Luigiâs Mansion 2, Mario vs. Donkey Kong puzzle-platformer)
Nothing earth-shatteringly large to mark your calendars with.
It seems that this might actually be the final Switch-focused Direct until they reveal whatever the Next Console is in 2024. The Luigiâs Mansion 2 date happening for Summer next year makes me think that console reveal might not yet come until Late 2024âŠ
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Basically my thoughts as well. The Princess Peach game looks interesting. I have heard that Thousand Year Door is meant to be by far the best Paper Mario game, so definetly got some interest in that.
It definetly feels like things are winding down a little until the next console arrives. Makes sense to do stuff like ports and remakes and save your big titles for the launch of the next console.
New Among Us map comes out next month, looks like fun.
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That was a very cute animated trailer! (I was half expecting some story-based mode lol)
I was like ânoooo!â when Red fell out of the ship. Then âyaaaay!â when it turned out okay!
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