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.

  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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.

    • Jamie@jamie.moe
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      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.