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Unity actually had a TOS in action that protected Developers

No it didn't. It just had words that pretended tk protect developers. TOS are meaningless for anyone other than the service when they can change at will.

This specific part of the TOS was deleted last year.

Yeah that's fine, what could possibly go wrong?

the trust that is irrevocably broken now

Irrevocably for the next week or so, maybe. People not only put up with but eat up heaps and heaps of BS and never change, so the BS never changes. Oh, Unity's corporate shite. "Shut up, it's fine!" Oh, Unity's being evil. "Shut up, it's fine!" Oh, Unity hired the fucking EA guy. "Shut up, it's fine!" Unity removed protections for devs. "Shut up, it's fine!" Unity wants to charge the fuck out of everycritter per-install. "Oh woe!" ... but any day now it'll be back to "Shut up, it's fine! They just want money, that's what companies are for! It's just capitalism broooo gotta make money, they can't just give stuff away!" like that justifies literally anything.

Blah blah blah. I guess I'll never understand how people can think for-profit companies that repeatedly abuse them are their friends. Maybe that's just me being a clueless lefty free software hippie or whatever, unaware of the benefits of being exploited and shat on then going and white-knighting for the damn companies against real people anyway.

wanders off yappyranting into the void

Reddit largely unaffected

So they might say. However the post 3 up from this is an article about how their posts and comments have dropped 50 to 90% across major subreddits.

Fuck Reddit

I've read that this started with easy loan money drying up after the First Republic collapse.

Wizards Of The Coast: Ha, it will never affect us if we change our licensing and hurt the little guy. End consumers don't care and no one reads these things anyway. "We have an announcement about changes to our EULA!"

Internet and DND community revolt, Pathfinder 2 sees a massive boost, and content providers are scared now.

Unity: Surely nothing similar could happen to us if we change our licensing? "We have an announcement about changes to our EULA..."

I’m not a huge conspiracy theorist, but considering the c-level execs pulled their investments before all these announcements, it’s not out of the question that they could tip people off to short the company as well.

Hell the realist in me sees the fines these guys get and they see it as a cost of doing business.

A friend works for a large-ish company that makes a product on Unity (not a game tho) and he just told me they were moving to Godot ASAP

Definitely waiting for Godot (heh) to step up to the plate, it's missing some stuff at the moment but give it a year and I'm sure it'll get there. We're stuck with Unity for now but things like this mean plans are in place to migrate off it should it become necessary (by and large aren't hit by this yet because we charge a bunch for the app so 20p isn't a big deal.. although we don't and likely can't track installs so no idea how that works..).

Unreal Engine almost has a monopoly at this point. It‘s also very friendly to use for small indie devs, not charging you anything for the first million dollars you make. Their license fees also seem rather fair as of now. But it doesn‘t help competition is flat lining left and right. Epic Games could feel their engine is worth a little more when Unity is gone too so I‘m happy to see many hobby devs give Godot a try first. I hope a company like Valve with their sheer infinite resources will see the shrinking market of Unreal alternatives and give their engine development a serious push. We really need more diversity when it comes to Engines.

I think the only reason not to use Godot now is console support.

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