Are they just hoping that literally no publisher will legally challenge these terms? You can’t just change the terms retroactively without consent and start charging people whatever you want. They’ll lose the instant someone takes them to court over it
The challenged Microsoft. Fucking MICROSOFT. They are completely and utterly fucked
Isn’t this action (removal of the git repo) essentially an admission that:
- Unity is doing something shady;
- Unity knows it’s doing something shady;
- Unity knows when the public sees what they’re doing what they’re doing, it’ll be recognized as totally something shady?
Yes slim, it’s shady.
In this digital era, you’d have thought they would know that it would leave a trail. Of course, it’s a calculated risk.
A suspiciously wiped and cleaned trail is still a trail.
Removed by mod
Sure a lot of people have a copy of the old repo. But I think the point is that it won’t be that easy to track ToS changes.
Unity uses mercurial for version control so maybe this is news to them.
Interesting, I wasn’t aware of this tool.
Reddit, Xwitter, Unity…what next in the queue of “let me fuck myself” ?
Shout out to Postman who this week decided to depreciate their local (secure) credential storage scratchpad, to force people to use their API and store everything on their cloud platform
https://blog.postman.com/announcing-new-lightweight-postman-api-client/
Global enshitification continues
Postman got flagged as no longer safe to use on corporate hardware after this. Sounds like it’s time to go back to using curl for everything.
You forgot Youtube/Google and Facebook who’ve been arseholes for years.
Nope, I didn’t. But they all being A-holes, show no sign of digging their own graves like Reddit, X, and Unity did.
Guess they are supervillains then, lol.
Eh, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. As people have said above the infinite free money is drying up. That’s a fact that all these corporations have to contend with. The only difference between Twitter and Facebook or Unity and Google is that Twitter and Unity have made their dumb decisions already. Facebook, Google, and others have navigated this fairly well so far. But they are feeling the same pressures that Reddit and Unity did and eventually they will bend to them too.
The more I read about this mess, the more I believe this is the work of one or multiple CEOs who have absolutely no clue about the field they are in and started giving orders.
You know what kind of boss I mean. That kind who can’t handle a NO and throws a fit every time they are proven wrong. But you still do as they will, because they are disgusting human beings and you are already in talks with a new workplace.
What’s weird to me is that CEOs should know all about accounting and financials. He should have realized that this pricing model is unsustainable for most Unity developers, because many make less than what he’s asking for per install themselves.
It’s clear that professional CEOs don’t know anything about tech, but this isn’t a tech issue.
They absolutely do know. They’re well aware of the impact this will have on small devs. That was their goal. They want to price out those free or low cost games that use Unity and never make a profit to avoid paying royalty fees.
This wasn’t incompetence. It’s straight up malice.
Of course, he may not realize that this dries up one of the largest sources of the Unity developers the clients he does care about uses.
Their CEO is the guy who was leading Electronic Arts when it was voted the worst company of the year, implemented first lootboxes and who was openly suggesting to charge people real money per reload.
The problem is, I don’t think the CEO would be in anyway getting the consequences of their actions. Of the company is sinking, they will just “be fired” and get those extra money (like huge amount of money). The company will close and announce bankruptcy. The “person” isn’t punished.
Gotta change the system and hold the responsible, accountable
What’s with these companies going full-evil all of a sudden.
Wait 'till Musk buys it and renames to Xunity
Ain’t that his kid’s name?
Xnity
Xity, the home of Xity business practices.
Corporations might have an iron grip over basically everything in our life, reducing our choices to a minimum, out of necessity, but the fact that they think we’re stupid too, is actually astounding
In many cases the have not been proven wrong.
The trash fire rises.
The silence is deafening
Sounds like Elon is running the company now
Are they that dumb or are they new to the internet?
Prime example
I bet money on that they don’t listen to the professionals they have hired. Otherwise, they wouldn’t do this or anything that stupid.
What do you mean?
Just wow man
How do I get in contact with these people to let them know how fucking corrupt they are
What a bunch of clowns, jeez.
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