{"id":249679,"date":"2023-09-18T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=307020"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:12:37","slug":"a-death-threat-closes-unity-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-death-threat-closes-unity-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"A death threat has closed Unity&#8217;s offices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that <strong>the tension generated by Unity&#8217;s announcement regarding its pricing policy continues to escalate<\/strong>. After several particularly tense days, it appears to have reached its peak on September 14th when the offices of <strong>the company, a favorite among indie developers, remained closed due to a &#8220;credible&#8221; death threat<\/strong>. In fact, the company&#8217;s CEO, John Riccitiello, had to cancel a significant commitment with several employees because of this. However, despite the seriousness with which the threat was taken, its source is still unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An extremely controversial change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This threat comes in an extremely tense context <strong>after Unity officially <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/unity-intends-to-charge-studios-for-every-time-someone-installs-a-videogame-made-with-its-engine?ex=RAMP-1114.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced a change in its pricing policy<\/a><\/strong> for the use of its game engine in general and its Unity Runtime App tool in particular. <strong>This new policy is set to take effect starting January 1, 2024<\/strong>, and would charge developers a fee per download beyond a certain number of installations, potentially <strong>putting the indie game industry at risk<\/strong> and potentially ending some models supported by freemium or ad-supported games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As expected, <strong>Unity game developers have not taken this news well<\/strong>, and the reactions have been not only very negative but also quite visceral. <strong>Many developers fear they won&#8217;t be able to continue their projects<\/strong>, quite a few have opted to start learning other game engines and programming languages, and <strong>a significant group has chosen to migrate their games to other game engines with more favorable terms<\/strong> or have decided not to work with Unity anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A particular case has been the developers of &#8220;Cult of the Lamb,&#8221;<\/strong> one of the most popular indie games in recent years, who <strong>have already announced that if Unity continues with its intentions, any game they have for sale on that engine will disappear<\/strong>. This includes, as expected, &#8220;Cult of the Lamb.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the tension generated by Unity&#8217;s announcement regarding its pricing policy continues to escalate. After several particularly tense days, it appears to have reached its peak on September 14th when the offices of the company, a favorite among indie developers, remained closed due to a &#8220;credible&#8221; death threat. In fact, the company&#8217;s CEO, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-death-threat-closes-unity-offices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A death threat has closed Unity&#8217;s offices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9286,"featured_media":249681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":11},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1617],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-249679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317854,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249679\/revisions\/317854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249679"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=249679"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=249679"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=249679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}