Microsoft announces Unity cloud partnership with Azure

More always online crap.

Thief000 said:WTH is this crap you always online as is.

If only Azure servers were any good for gaming.

Woolyguy24 said:Thank God I'm not. I still have older consoles and self control. Unfortunately, future generations will no longer be allowed that luxury since absolutely everything will require you to be connected all the time.
I love the tech behind this stuff, but the implications on other fronts should also not be ignored. There is still so much to squeeze out of current machines before having to reach for the cloud assistance.

you may get good result by having a strong optic fiber at 1.50Gb-2Gb/s or more fast with zero pings,

Is fall guys really (still) unity? I'd expect this was rewritten to unreal engine by epic games.

Icedove said:Uhm, what? Why would they do that?

Shel2theburne said:Because Unity recently announced a merger with a company that's known for bundling malware with other software: https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-...

I'm surprised the TA article didn't mention this—anything Unity-related moving forward is a red flag.

zeldafanjtl said:While I agree, this deal was probably long in the making on well on its way before that announcement. Not that it absolves them of anything though.

zeldafanjtl said:Lol ok. That still doesn't mean anything.

Epsilon Theta said:Oh yeah, agreed. Just saying it would make sense for TA to mention in this article that Unity is currently embroiled in a huge controversy that may lead to an exodus from the platform.

Shel2theburne said:It does—there's been a pretty big public discussion about what the merger means for studios that use Unity and many studios have talked about weighing the costs of whether they should migrate to a different engine.

zeldafanjtl said:While I understand your views on this matter, but this was really blown out of proportion.
IronSource did develop a windows installer, it was other parties that exploited this and pushed malware / unwanted software thought this product. This product was then discontinued in 2020 and going to their website shows this: https://www.installcore.com/
This discontinued product was done prior to the Unity merger with the company.

So, yes. Installcore was used for malware installations, but saying that IronSource bundled malware with other software is incorrect.
It's like blaming a P2P software company for the malware you got on your computer from the torrent file you downloaded.

Hahah so many ignorant humans spouting garbage about installcore.

Thanks for not reporting on factually incorrect information TA.

Cloud gaming works brilliantly for me

JustinBeiber said:User name checks out.

Boneless117 said:Thank you for providing facts to the table instead of spouting non-sense.

Unity being a game engine, it's nice that other developers will be able to use the platform this way and not only Unity as a company, don't really understand the debate in the above comments as the company in itself isn't really the target, "Unity creators" are.
If you can run xCloud, you'll probably be able to run this too, never had any problem with Azure servers in gaming and much less at work.
I have no issues in Microsoft Flight Simulator nor Minecraft Realms and from what I understand it runs on Azure, I don't get why people get so upset about online only, the processing gets outsourced, how sweet is that ?
Portability of a game engine on many different providers is a good thing, it makes game creators able to pick the architecture they need from different platforms, imagine if it was only AWS running it all, no price range, just a monopoly, small time creators might not be able to afford it, certain commercial bias can happen between big tech companies, etc.
A news welcomed by those with a dev kit for sure

Epsilon Theta said:AppLovin's assets are $6 billion, net income is $35 million, passive assets are $2 billion, and they are planning an acquisition for $17 billion? Yep. good luck. It doesn't appear to be successful.

Tommy said:Lol what are you blathering about? Clearly you don't work with Azure