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Unity apologizes to devs, reveals updated Runtime Fee policy (blog.unity.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I don’t think Unity has much runway left at this point. The exec team isn’t changing, and they’re the ones that caused this clusterfuck with a blatant money grab. They also didn’t even mention the scummy anticompetitive (and potentially illegal in some jurisdictions) fee vouchers they were handing out to try to steal users from AppLovin, nor was the sneaky update of their license terms that was done to enable the whole snafu addressed.

They tried to fuck over their customer base quite a bit too hard, and it boomeranged very predictably.