An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.

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An open letter to our community

The trust is completely lost on my side, good luck anyway

It’s fairly good response, though my trust is largely eroded. I don’t upgrade Unity versions very often (I’m still on 2020 for example). So I can see myself moving to the latest LTS version of 2022 and then just staying there forever.
I’m a hobbyist with no real releases worth speaking of, so the old policy we all (rightfully) freaked out about would likely have not affected me anyway - but it’s the principle of the thing.
I wonder if this new policy will make Unity 2022 a defacto standard among a certain segment of the userbase, I can see people finding ways to hack updated features into it over time. I am also buoyed to see renewed interest in alternative engines such as Godot and FNA (XNA got me into gamedev as a hobby, I could see myself going back).
I found a number of other interest engines/frameworks myself that are less popular than Godot but intriguing nonetheless:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/GDevelopApp/GDevelop-examples" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">GDevelop</a></li>
<li><a href="https://defold.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Defold</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">BabylonJS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.stride3d.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Stride</a></li>
<li><a href="https://phaser.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Phaser</a></li>
<li><a href="https://microstudio.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">MicroStudio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pixijs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Pixi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ctjs.rocks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Ct.js</a></li>
<li><a href="https://springrts.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Spring RTS Engine</a></li>
</ul>

It’s a necessary change, sure. But Unity would be wrong to assume that this fixes everything. Their actions broke the trust of so many users, so they are going to have to start doing a lot more to win back trust of the community, even if it’s at the expense of the shareholdesrs.

EA CEO (now unity CEO) though developers were as gullible as Fifa players