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Feature Request Bring back legacy support for $

Discussion in 'Unity Build Automation' started by LilGames, Aug 31, 2023.

  1. LilGames

    LilGames

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    The whole point of charging for services is to supply a good or service that the customer would otherwise not want to handle themselves or produce themselves.

    You've removed 2018.x from Cloud Build Automation, so now our legacy project needs to be built locally. I would pay extra for Legacy versions of Unity (in fact, for a while only the Mac builders supported 2018 so it was costing extra already).

    I'm also not happy that we weren't notified of the removal of 2018. It was a complete surprised today when I went to make a build of an older project. No dashboard notices, no emails.

    "Why don't you update the game" will be one of the replies.
    Answer: We can't without substantial art and animation re-made from scratch, along with accompanying code changes. Too many deprecated packages are currently in use.

    So I guess that's that then.
     
  2. AcidArrow

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    Another would be to look into Jenkins :)
     
  3. wrossmck-unity

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    I'm talking with the team on if we can accommodate this exception
     
  4. LilGames

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    Appreciate it. In the meantime I'll see if we can retrieve the keys/keystoe off of Unity's Cloud setup. If so, then we might be fine for local Android builds.
     
    Last edited: Sep 1, 2023
  5. LilGames

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    Just to follow up with you. We are a drop in the ocean for Unity, revenue-wise. Spent most of the day finding our Android app keys and proper build configurations for local builds etc and I think we're good now.
     
  6. wrossmck-unity

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    One of the main reasons for deprecating so many unity versions recently was so that we could also retire macOS Big Sur at the same time, it looks like unity 2018 is launching successfully on OSes as recent as Ventura. so we might be able to bring this back after we build a new image for it.

    I'm happy to keep the latest version of "legacy" editor versions around as long as they work on our regularly supported operating system versions. We'll look into this further
     
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