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The problem I have with this is the casting of the announcement as a "mistake," brought about by a "lack of communication." Unity employees (and former employees) have said that they have brought up all of the concerns that set the community on fire months ago and were ignored. So while the new terms are better, it still feels more like corporate spin bs and damage control than a legitimate change in Unity's vision for the future. It feels to me that it's not whether they'll do something shady again, but when.
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The part that immediately stuck out to me regarding the editor: "As long as you keep using that version." Who's to say they won't pull a forced update to the editor that is able to use the previous LTS but through the 'new and updated' editor thereby invalidating your claim of 'using the old version'?
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Number one concern they had was not to let small personal license users head off to Godot. They need a pipeline of developers who feed into bigger programs and need to make sure they're still the biggest game in town. They'll need to recapture that lost revenue from the big games so I'd be wary of the 2.5% staying the same
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All this really does is make me feel better about continuing my current project in Unity. I'll likely still look elsewhere afterwards tho.
Until we get a legally binding promise of stability and preferably a change in leadership, I won't trust Unity. Both in not suddenly changing policies and in actually working on needed engine features. Man before this, I barely ever thought about using other engines...
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I think that the correct way to procede with this whole situation is let unity go out in flames, that no matter how many "sorrys" and "will never happen again", a single one is more than enough, abusive relationships have to be stopped; all this to send a message to the market: dont ever think that stepping back from a purposely bad decision is gonna save a bad bussines relationship
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They pinky swear that whatever policy you have on the current version will still apply later. But what did their prior RETROACTIVE policy tell you? "We reserve the right to change these terms at any time." In what version of law and justice and common sense was it possible to retroactively change an agreement? Because if they can charge you per use fees for games from ten years ago -- then that means they might also require your first born and three pints of blood.
I think Unity did everyone a favor with this warning shot across the bow. If there weren't a lot of blowback they might have gone through with it -- and it shows someone with no rationality or insight into the devs was ever doing a gut level check on that. You can't trust whoever is at the helm of this company.
What people do when you aren't looking tells you who they are.
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