Some more speculation etc. on the back of the VentureBeat post.
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If a Chinese investor picks it up, i’ll drop it like a hot rock…
just sayin’
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“The feelgood factor that surrounds the company and its tools is unique in mobile history – yes, developers complain about problems and bugs, but few if any give up the ghost entirely and most, if pushed, will admit that Unity is a company that listens to the concerns of the development community even if it can’t react immediately.”
Keith Andrew
True?
IPO
Hmm…
I didn’t like the closing of the previous similar thread, for whatever reason.
In some cases an acquisition works well for the clients, in other not.
The article An ode to Unity: Selling is inevitable, but can you just hold out a little longer? | PocketGamer.biz says it right, Unity is unlikely to keep its multi platform nature after an acquisition.
As a client, one of the major reasons of purchasing Unity 5 Pro license and investing time on it is its multi platform nature.
I would like to see some response from Unity regarding this.
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You’re not entitled to a response about internal company affairs from Unity unless it’s more than rumour. The other thread was locked and this is a continuation of the other thread, so if it grows out of hand and doesn’t stay on target, it too will be locked.
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Because someone was talked about the UE4 price…Again…
Repeatedly actually. I deleted 5 posts from the same individuals before enough was enough.
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Time for the ban hammer? 
Why?
If its because you don’t want to support the Chinese companies then, you better do your research on the products you buy and use. They have a lock on the components, manufacturing, and labor on most of the products you use.
Not much to do but wait and see, really. It is a wake up call for investing so much time and effort in a single tool, or so the pessimist in me says.
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When will they learn. Stop talking about the price!
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“You’re not entitled to a response about internal company affairs from Unity unless it’s more than rumour.”
I am expecting an official response to this rumour. At some point at Unite, Joachim Ante said about Unity’s intention to be more transparent. Here is a good chance to apply that. What I got so far is an unofficial “no comment” from Aras (which is a response btw, thanks Aras).
I am also expecting more sane customers who have invested in a tool more time and money than me to be curious about this subject as well, because a potential sell affects people’s decisions. Those decisions involve choosing other engines, so it is not unnatural to see posts regarding this option. Hippocoder, thanks for getting in trouble to explain why you closed the previous thread but I believe that regardless the noise, the info on this topic is important and I need access to it via a thread.
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Oh yeah I totally agree with you. I’m just saying you or I aren’t entitled to a response. We can ask but there’s no demand as there’s no substance. I too, would love to know more about this situation due to a large cash investment into using Unity. Should it be going a direction I do not like, I need to know more.
I’m still not entitled based on a rumour though
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This type of rumour has come and gone a bunch of times in the past, and honestly… the article this one came from didn’t even say a sale was being considered.
In fact, from memory it did the opposite. Two anonymous sources were quoted. One of them agreed that a) Unity had considered options at some time and that b) one of those options was a sale. Those things are both true by default, and in no way suggest that a sale was being pursued (it’s always “an option”). The other said something like being unaware of any discussion of a sale, which is actually evidence against the rumor. Though both should be taken with giant grains of salt in any case, since they’re anonymous and therefore completely unreliable sources. (I mean, the people themselves may be perfectly reliable, but to us they’re meaningless since there’s no way to evaluate what they reportedly said.)
Edit: To be clear, I’m not saying that anything is or isn’t happening. I’m just saying that the article in question doesn’t actually inform us of anything useful.
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True.
The only source that can authoritatively dispel / confirm the rumors though is UT, the sooner the better.
Sadly, UT could step up and tell us what they think about this, but they probably won’t and we’ll be left wondering.
I dunno about the ban hammer. Well beyond my user grade
However, it is surprising that people who produce forum software haven’t yet introduced a feature that allows forum mods to disable certain users from posting in certain threads.
Some of those posters that derailed the previous thread appear to be reasonable people - they just seemed stuck on stupid in that particular thread(I won’t take usernames sorry)
This is less drastic than a ban hammer and allows the mods more flexibility. Probably some forum software already exists with that feature, but I would think this feature should have been more widely available from the start
EDIT: My 2 cents on that. Hope this thread doesn’t get derailed too
On topic.
Impossible to say anything on rumors.
Just like the previous venturebeat article, this one too seems based on rumors and theories
Stop liking your own damn comments!
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If it HAS to be anyone, I’d prefer Microsoft be the buyer.
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