So Unity Has a big mega flash deal thing and it sucks

their website couldnt even handle the traffic. by the time I stopped getting errors. the store ran insanely slow. and everything was already down from 90 to 70%..... like if your gonna do a sale like that. try to have the infrastructure to support it

 

Exactly... planned on getting some assets, then in a matter of 20 mins.... just while i tried to get more... system was down.

 

Yeah, that whole thing is embarrassing. Now I can't even load a single page when logged in (logged out I at least see the assets, though, with the wrong sale data). Since I have to go to work now and can't check any longer this is it for the 3 assets I actually wanted out of the flash sale.

Good stuff.

 

Besides, 90% deals, I even cannot buy the 50% or regular prices

 

If I wouldn't know it better, I would think this is the very first sale in the Unity Asset Store. You would not expect from a company like Unity to go totally unprepared in a sale in regard to the infrastructure. Disappointing...

 

Embarrassing.

 

Even I couldn't access to Package Manager.... it's really embarrassing
And also I guess 90% deals are gonna 50%

 

So many errors..

"Internal server error: Fail to get redis data"
"Gateway timeouts"
"Wrap non AppError: unexpected EOF"

Makes me wonder if there is really anybody who was able to get those 90% deals. By the time you will be able to buy them, it's already passed the time limit and also passed that discount rate.

It feels that the sale is really about 70% or 50% which is similar to the past Spring sale.

 

Yea this is really bad. It impacts both buying customers and those who are developing their projects since they also use the asset store to download their assets.

This event even highlighted an issue with their architecture. The place where we download assets should be separate from the "store".

 

Totally agree, I could not get some of the assets for 90%, as I was sleeping when those got 'live' and now the site is completely down ... *sighs* ... I expected better from a website that is purely focused on selling assets!

 

Bittersweet that I'm not the only one. The reality is sad. I wish it were only me so I could do something to fix it but I guess not. I was surprised to see the 90% deals gone down to 50% as well.

 

Guys.. what did u expect? its unity!
u need to buy an alternate package from unity store that fixes unitys bugged module to make it work.. go search for some unity asset store alternative package -_-

 

I didn't think a company could manage to hold a sale that could keep me up all night, not sell me the product at the price I thought I would get it at, AND be a huge frustrating disappointment but well done, you managed it Unity. I really felt the real-world taste of disappointment in waiting 45 minutes for the site to load to not get what I waited for.

The prices didn't show up correctly for most of the time, and by the time the site loaded properly, the sale was effectively over unless you like showing up for a 90% sale and getting a 50%-70% sale.

Not telling us the 90% off was for only 20 customers in the whole world up front was scummy and lame. Thousands of people disrupted their lives for this sale. Honestly, as a creator and developer I'd like to feel that I'm a partner with Unity instead of being manipulated into a panic buy situation.

How angry do you think people would be if they waited outside a brick and mortar store for 45 minutes for a 90% sale only to enter the store and be offered a 70% or 50% instead? How angry would they be if they knew there were thousands of people in line that were baited to the store for only 20 units for the price shown?

My 2 cents.

 

I should have expected nothing less from Unity. But well...

 

my experience, it shows 50% on page refresh.



then after a while... (sometimes longer) the rates changed...



This could lead to confusion.

 

I don't think the prices were ever 90% off, I think the intention was that maybe one of the deals is 90% off, the rest are either 70 or 80. It was very misleading labelling them all as 90% off, when that wasn't going to be the price. So don't worry, I'm pretty sure you haven't missed anything by not getting there soon enough, it's just a case of misleading labelling.

 

They were all clearly marked as "90% off" in their initial communication leading up to this event. Too bad nobody can verify that, becasue the store was "offline" for the first hour of the sale...

 

I agree, but the wording on the web site was also "up to 90% off", even though all of them had a 90% off label.

 

For example, these state 90% off, but I'm sure won't be, or at least they won't all be. They'll probably change to just 70% off when the time comes.

 

Or maybe I'm wrong as the African big pack was 80% for 50 sales and now it's 70% for 400. Maybe it was 90% for the first 5 or something!!

 

They probably were 90% for a very limited supply. Classic bait / fomo / marketing bullsh*t move.

Which would have been OK, if they at least had the decency to make sure their store can handle the expected traffic spike.

I am not even angry any more that I set my alarm to get up early and (try to) buy one or two assets at a steep discount. Can only blame myself for getting my hopes up.


The joke is, that you couldn't even access assets you already purchased, because the entire thing was down
Well.. Unreal is handing out free stuff in the meantime again...

 

Obviously not 90%.

 

Then changes to this

 

I bought 4 assets for 90% off. The deal is going this way: the first 20 copies go for 90% off, the next 50 copies go for 80%, the next 400 copies go for 70%... etc. Eventually it drops back to 50% sale when the limited 'lightning sale' copies run out.

 

There's a lot of assets for 70% off right now, and it's around 400 copies so it's hard to miss.

 

Lucky you

 

I really like the argument

"Works for me" The epitome of software development

 

Clearly there should have been a limit then, on how many "super deals" you could purchase, considering most people couldn't even access the site or got booted shortly thereafter.