Hey lads!

As some of you probably heard, Unity CEO, John Riccitiello, decided to charge devs per install of their games, starting with January 1st 2024. What's funny, he sold company's shares before announcing it. What's even funnier, he was CEO at Electronic Arts when they got the famous award for being the worst company in America :v

Imagine some small devs who tried making a game and selling it for a few $ at best, while it went totally viral and they sold many, many copies, and now aside for taxes and other fees (like 30% to Steam), they have to pay $0,20 for each game install (not to be mistaken with a bought copy, since install is much worse), so if someone plays on a few devices, he seriously hurts the dev selling the game cheap. It gets totally ridiculous with a dev who wants to share their game for free and it gets installed million times. Selling your house and both kidneys probably won't cover the debt. And even if you feel that it doesn't affect you at all, it actually does, because expect much less devs sharing their games willingly with the public for free, or they will start charging more for their games.

While I get it that they want to earn more money, because after over 10 years of being the Unity dev myself I didn't really pay them anything (aside for few thousands $ spent in the asset store), so it's kinda normal, but the way they chose is so fucking scummy that you have no idea how triggered I am. Despite being a hentai dev I still have some honor, so normally I would boycott Unity for the shit they pulled off and move onto another engine, but - there's no way I'm abandoning the project; I can't easily port UiTC onto different engine; making it "from scratch" with some of my assets would take me at least one year (but probably much more); I have debts to pay; and it would be a really dick move towards you, lads, for going on hiatus from releases like that. Thus I'm staying.

Paid versions of my game won't be really affected by their great idea, since there's no way I will sell so many games in a lifetime (I'm no big dev by any means), but public & pirated versions are a different story. I have no clue how many people tried my games in all these years, but looking at views at some forums, I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 100k people... And now imagine me paying $20k (but most likely more), because my games got pirated over and over (not to mention ways to exploit the system and make devs pay more). They said they have anti-fraud system, but bla bla bla, we all know that these systems always end in failure and they want to calm us down right before they start the real (shit)storm themselves. There's still a chance they will back down from their idea or alter it (based on the backlash), but they will give us access to some data in November, so I will let you know what I will do with the public version once I get my hands on the actual data. And I don't plan to increase prices either.

Sorry, had to vent, because of constant shit like that devs have to focus more and more on earning money rather than making good games or fulfilling their dreams. And if they keep it up, I doubt that my next games will be released with Unity. At least it proves my point that you can't specialize in one thing and you have to evolve, because one decision, feature or technology can ruin your career, like ChatGPT. So I guess the time has come to finally start learning a new engine & programming language, just to be safe.

Since it's a progress report, I'm almost finished with optimizing locations and fixing loading of NPCs clothes, so expect a release this Saturday-Sunday, but most likely Sunday (as always).

Oh, and Miss Maia already sent me some moans, but they will be finished within next 1-2 weeks and will appear in v32. 1st character is a shy teenager. 2nd character is a slut in her 20s. 3rd character is a wife in her 30s. Of course, it was just our aim, but you are free to choose and interpret them however you like, since they won't be locked behind any customization options, like backstories. I'm attaching one moan for each character variant, so feel free to check them out.

Cheers!