YSK https://isthereanydeal.com/ lets you create a waitlist, set a price you’re willing to pay for each game, and notifies you when its on sale for ≤ that amount.

Microsoft is like a super clingy ex.

Good point, they can’t both be true…but they CAN both be false. I’m hiring you as my lawyer.

This is the perfect answer.

Unity: Everyone really seems to hate EA

Also Unity: Let’s hire the CEO of EA

🤦

You’re right, they’re absolutely collecting data, but saying they can’t differentiate between activations and then saying “oh yeah, actually, we can when it comes to (piracy/bundles/charity/etc.)” less than 24 hours later tells me that not only do they not care about game devs, but they think we’re stupid too.

Certainly Godot is the safer bet (probably why they are surging so much more right now), but Unreal is nowhere near as bad as Threads. Unreal is open source, and the license specifically forbids Epic from making retroactive changes like Unity just did:

7. The Agreement Between You and Epic

a. Amendments

If we make changes to this Agreement, you are not required to accept the amended Agreement, and this Agreement will continue to govern your use of any Licensed Technology you already have access to.

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! Unless you have anything to do with Unity, because there are no winners in this shitshow.