Please... Whatever being governs this spinning ball of rock and water that we call home... make Unity back the fuck up. Stop them doing this. So many games I haven't played yet- so many games I have played and love with all my soul- if Unity ends up charging them per download, there's a not insignificant chance most of them are going to disappear forever. Please don't take Hollow Knight. Please don't take Cult of the Lamb. Please don't take The Stanley Parable Just make Unity turn back.

Folks talking about Game Devs dropping Unity or how it won't hurt small indie devs with under 200,000. Are missing the point.

Some of these Unity games can't change to another engine because they have years of code piled on top of each other at this point. aka POKEMON GO. They'd basically have to rebuild the game from scratch.

Not to mention Unity is mostly used by phone app games or Indie's that are lucky enough to get picked up by console. Indie games on Mobile easily pass 200,000 downloads. Temple Run 1 and 2 are in Unity, Crossy Road, Angry birds 1 and 2, and Hearthstone. All of these past 200,000 downloads years ago but aren't bringing in money now except hearthstone.

The Developers will do what happened to the first Angry birds app. They'll take it down, build it in a new engine for "HD", and add a shit ton of micro transactions. We are about to lose countless original versions of the OG pre lootbox mobile games.

We are also about to lose some of the biggest Indie games of the last decade. Among Us, Plague Inc., 7 Days to die, the original Slenderman game and it's sequel, I am Bread, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dream Daddy, Overcooked 1 & 2, Pathfinder online, Cup Head, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Oxygen Not Included, Bloons Tower Defense 6, Beat Saber, Subnautica, The Stanley Parable, Untitled Goose Game, Power Washing Simulator, Fall Guys, Inscryption, Phasmophobia

And the big one FUCKING HOLLOW KNIGHT. Silk song has already been pushed back out of this year specifically because it's being made by a team of like 3 people. It is so close to being finished and now they are being told they have to start over from scratch basically. Hollow Knight got over 200,000 downloads from being on playstation and was eventually put on Playstations subscription service. Every cent they made from hollow knight has gone back into making silk song. Which might now be delayed by multiple years and oh they are going to have to use some of that funds to pay unity now. Or find a way to get out of a contract with playstation. Because folks will keep downloading Hollow Knight for free and Unity will send the Hollow Knight team the bill.

oh and there's one more teeny tiny game made in Unity that you guys might not want to suddenly disappear. One with almost 3 years of monthly code updates, one with 139 million downloads to date, and 4.8 million monthly users.

Genshin. Guys Genshin Impact is made completely in Unity and that's not a game that can have it's code just copy and pasted to another engine.

Nothing in the world more romantic to me than a guy who will not shut the fuck up and their emotional support nonverbal asshole.

Give me more examples of this right fucking now

To be clear: the nonverbal character cannot just be sitting there complacently, they HAVE to make the chatty ones life a living hell and they have to be obsessed with each other in a way so passionate and heated that it makes the collapse of a binary star system look like two beach balls hitting each other. Do you understand me

when you hurt Settings Person this is who you hurt. if you even care

The “who would devote their life to you” Narrator devoting his life to Stanley

The Stanley Parable (2013)

This was not the correct way to the meeting room, and Stanley knew it perfectly well. Perhaps he wanted to stop by the employee lounge first, just to admire it.

When Stanley came to a set of two open doors, he entered the door on his left.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe spoilers.

i adore you video games that reconstruct the idea of the fourth wall, i adore you video games that make you think and question and imagine just for the sake of it, i adore you video games that redefine the entire genre. i adore you,

personally my take is that stanley and the narrator are enemies and friends and strangers and one man who made up a story in his head to cope with his depression and one man who created a character to cope with his choice anxiety and an allegory for the video game industry's relationship to players and an allegory for the creative process and two self-aware fictional characters struggling to find some evidence of their reality in each other and every single dm/player dynamic at once and, most importantly, gay

Y

Yeah.

Coming to grips with the MORTIFYING ordeal of being Percieved

*stuffy british accent* go on now stanley, hit the “slay” button.

#the stanley parable is every game thats ever been created #did you hear that stanley? #every game thats ever been created #what an astounding achievement #stanley in celebration of this achievement i believe its time to unveil something special #(slow anticipation of a metal post sliding up out of the ground) #yes stanley its time for the one... the only... #(the post stops in place; part of the top hinges open revealing a small red button labeled slay) #the slay button #go on stanley. its calling you i can tell. i can see how your anticipation grips you so tightly that you cannot breathe #take a deep breath; in and out; and place your hand upon the button slayer #(the button is pressed. confetti falls from the cieling and fake applause rings out in the distance) #(the narrator briefly changes accents to a more american voice for one word) #slay! #(normal narrator voice) #do you see stanley? do you see how much joy we have brought to those reading these tumblr tags? #we have slayed in just the right way #now all we need is to hope that someone reads these tags and screenshots all of them and adds them to the post #and maybe at some point in the future this will be a comic #a comic; stanley! could you imagine? #i know what the internet wants stanley. i always know

Fine, I guess!

we've officially come full circle (everyone thank my lovely @lover-in-blue who truly did not have to go this hard.)

The Stanley Parable is available for free right now if you’re looking for something to play.

Be unreasonably altruistic to one another.

My laptop might be a toaster, but you guys might enjoy this! It’s a great game, focusing on the relationship between a narrator and a player, and choices, and it’s really good. And now it’s free!

the idea:

in the same room, at the same time.

This would cause a fricking singularity.