• operacion_ogro [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    a new fee which would charge developers every time someone installs a game that was made with Unity – including future and retroactive installs

    does this mean that the pirating meme about installing and deleting a pirated game over and over to bankrupt a company will be real

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “I think Unity has made some moves in the past few years that have been poorly received," Ismail adds. “I’ve never seen this level of unanimous agreement between developers that something is really bad. Which is remarkable; in that way they’re really living up to their name.”

    Well, there’s that, anyway.

    Unification is a really powerful force for change.

    Hopefully other engines are watching this.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    The fee isn’t here yet but 2024 is not far off, and Unity’s proposition is already wreaking havoc on innumerable games. “The announcement from Unity is astonishing,” says general manager Christian Lövstedt of The Battle of Polytopia

    Watch my-hero low poly cyber truck buy unity because it threatens his favorite game.

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    There’s absolutely no fucking way that companies like Microsoft (Blizzard), Nintendo (Pokemon) and Mihoyo (Genshin Impact) allows this to apply retroactively, all of which have used Unity.

    This is going to court. Their lawyers are going to be all over it.

  • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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    this kind of sucks, like, pirates will come through and archive stuff like disco elysium and subnautica but god all the tiny indie games are fucked deeper-sadness

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    Can’t have a house. Can’t have healthcare. Can’t have vacations. Can’t have drinkable water. Can’t have breathable air. Can’t even have mindless entertainment like games.

    All I need is an AK-47, though.

  • hey maybe this is a naive question, but legally how can they impose new fees and charges retroactively on people who already paid to use the engine to make a game under a previous license? is that kind of stipulation not equivalent to “we have total ownership over anything you produce with our techology in perpetuity”?

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      The terms of service day they can. But as we all know that is not legally binding and they are hoping no one with financial power calls them on it.