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Brandon Sheffield

@necrosofty
14 posts
2023-10-17
Epic bought a profitable business, decided they needed to cut costs, and nearly immediately started gutting that profitable business before selling it off to vultures. Bandcamp is the only place where smaller musical artists make any money. What a miserable situation.
2023-10-17 View on X
SFGATE

Music storefront Bandcamp lays off nearly 50% of its workforce, or 58 employees, as part of Songtradr's acquisition of the company from Epic Games in September

Stephen Council / SFGATE :

2023-09-14
So now Microsoft is gonna pay fees for gamepass? Good luck with that. And lemme tell ya, talking a bunch of nonsense and then walking it back to another ambiguous place does not give me confidence in your ability to run a product
2023-09-14 View on X
IGN

Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected”

Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won't be affected by change.  —  Game developers are still furious …

So now Microsoft is gonna pay fees for gamepass? Good luck with that. And lemme tell ya, talking a bunch of nonsense and then walking it back to another ambiguous place does not give me confidence in your ability to run a product
2023-09-14 View on X
Windows Central

Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees

Yesterday Unity announced that starting next year … Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Epic Games is “exploring native Unreal Engine support” for Apple Vision Pro Stephen Totilo / Axios :...

Unity is saying charity bundles are exempted from fees, but *they don't know* which installs are from charity bundles. Even we as devs don't have a way of knowing that. Did I sell this game on humble or was it free in a charity bundle? Unity doesn't have access to that info.
2023-09-14 View on X
Windows Central

Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees

Yesterday Unity announced that starting next year … Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Epic Games is “exploring native Unreal Engine support” for Apple Vision Pro Stephen Totilo / Axios :...

Unity is saying charity bundles are exempted from fees, but *they don't know* which installs are from charity bundles. Even we as devs don't have a way of knowing that. Did I sell this game on humble or was it free in a charity bundle? Unity doesn't have access to that info.
2023-09-14 View on X
IGN

Unity acknowledges “the confusion and frustration” around its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected”

Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won't be affected by change.  —  Game developers are still furious …

2023-09-13
So now Microsoft is gonna pay fees for gamepass? Good luck with that. And lemme tell ya, talking a bunch of nonsense and then walking it back to another ambiguous place does not give me confidence in your ability to run a product
2023-09-13 View on X
Windows Central

Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees

By Jez Corden Contributions from Zachary Boddy last updated  —  Unity joins Unreal Engine with a per-install fee.  —  What you need to know

Unity is saying charity bundles are exempted from fees, but *they don't know* which installs are from charity bundles. Even we as devs don't have a way of knowing that. Did I sell this game on humble or was it free in a charity bundle? Unity doesn't have access to that info.
2023-09-13 View on X
Windows Central

Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees

By Jez Corden Contributions from Zachary Boddy last updated  —  Unity joins Unreal Engine with a per-install fee.  —  What you need to know

2022-02-26
Pretty solid response from Gabe Newell in here on NFTs and crypto I think. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-26 View on X
Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Interview with Gabe Newell, Valve president and co-founder, on the Steam Deck, the company's past and future hardware plans, consolidation in gaming, and more

We interview Valve's co-founder on hardware plans and consolidation in gaming  —  I recently had the chance to grill Gabe Newell …

Pretty solid response from Gabe Newell in here on NFTs and crypto I think. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Review of the $400 Steam Deck: customizable controls, powerful, and doubles as a Linux PC, but unfinished and buggy software, poor battery life, and a noisy fan

My favorite gaming PC ever made Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer : The Steam Deck is already the emulation system of my dreams Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica : A brief tour of the Steam Deck's...

2021-02-03
Very interesting - though to me this says more about high level store curation than it does about vr, specifically. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-03 View on X
UploadVR

Oculus says six Oculus Quest titles have each cleared $10M in revenue and 60, or one third of all paid apps available on its store, have earned $1M+

Very interesting - though to me this says more about high level store curation than it does about vr, specifically. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-03 View on X
Engadget

Facebook rolls out Messenger for Oculus Quest, as well as App Lab, letting developers distribute apps outside the Oculus Store without needing to sideload

Facebook is continuing to stitch its services more closely together — it's now rolling out Messenger on Oculus.

2021-01-23
Lol. The gig economy is going to ruin us https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-23 View on X
CNET

Lyft is testing a “priority mode” offering drivers more rides in exchange for a 10% pay cut; some drivers call it “poverty mode”, saying their earnings dropped

and agree to a 10% pay cut — they don't get rides. https://www.cnet.com/... via @CNET O...K / @kateconger : this is so messed up https://twitter.com/...

2020-06-25
if your business model doesn't support paying people a living wage, and classifying them as employees means you might go out of business, maybe you shouldn't be in business. https://www.theverge.com/...
2020-06-25 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Sources: California AG plans to seek an injunction as soon as today to force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees under AB5 before the case is heard

whether it's paying a legal wage or overtime, providing sick leave, or providing unemployment insurance.” @AGBecerra https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... Xavier Becerra / @xavierbecerr...

2020-04-08
I feel like they could've lowered the threshold to $2k and gotten almost the same numbers https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-08 View on X
Ars Technica

Valve releases data showing rise in games making $10K during first two weeks after release but analysis suggests ~80% of games earn under $5K during same period

Valve offers a peek behind the sales curtain, telling an incomplete and mixed story.  —  It has been roughly two years …