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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle (www.wired.com)

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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle::Even though the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial new fee policy, the damage is done.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. No matter the CEO. The fact the even can do it means they'll probably try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We don't know if they can do it. They walked their plan back before it could be tested in court. There's a very good chance that what they were doing (particularly their changing the terms of an agreement without any action from the other parties) was illegal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Imagine if Microsoft did the same thing with Windows? Allowing software companies to just suddenly change the rules like that could be a terrible precedent. They would probably get hit with antitrust for like the 50th time since they opened their doors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If the software would not be propietary, game studios could patch versions they already have so Unity won't be tamptes to mess with it.