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@ktemkin This looks like a spoof of some sort... but if it's not, it's kind of a crappy way to try to perform a money grab 
Arne Babenhauserheide
@CamilleRolandAuteur or one of the other free game engines (just avoid anything with a Proprietary or "non-commercial" license and never trust Microsoft …). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines I actually expected Unity to pull something like this much earlier … 
ator robot
@stellarskylark @ktemkin it's not retroactive in that way. it's retroactive in that games already published with Unity will begin having the charges apply to them. whether this will stand up legally remains to be seen, though.
Kate Temkin
@stellarskylark @ator not just already published, but *sold*, as long as they’re not already installed on a given device if you buy a game now, and wait to install it or install it on a new machine or machines, supposedly the publisher now owes Unity a fee for each install so each time a mobile game user buys a new phone? that’s a new fee, apparently
ator robot
@ktemkin @stellarskylark yeah, the whole thing is an odious disaster 😶 I find it hard to believe Unity could be stupid enough to go through with this. then again, it seems they have been acting in contempt of their community for a while. I don't see any coming back from it really, the trust is already destroyed
Christmas Tree
@ktemkin that note about piracy got me thinking - DRM crackers finally have an opportunity to use their powers for the benefit of developers by finding a way to disable Unity’s phone-home-on-install mechanism
Maddie Mostly
@ktemkin@chaos.social Not a chance they have any legal ground to stand if they make this shit retroactive... they will get so sued if thats the case... 
Mono
@wilbr @ktemkin You wouldn‘t need to to pirate the runtime. The runtime is still free for the lowest developer tier. The real question is can you separate the runtime from a technical standpoint and is possible to ship without the runtime from a legal perspective. Otherwise you have to delist your games sue them at the same time. 
Mx Amber Alex
@ktemkin is "an initial install-based fee allows creators to keep the ongoing financial gains" the actua, official reasoning? Because if so, what a way to tell on themselves. Not every game is an ever-milking subscription microtransaction nightmare, and the world is better for it.  
Glitzersachen.de
A spoof / parody based on actual license change, that is every way as horrible as the spoof.
Acetopheles
@ktemkin the unity post reads so similar I actually didn't realise it was edited with it for a bit lmao |
@ktemkin nostalgia