[HN Gopher] Unity Overhauls Controversial Price Hike After Game ...
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       Unity Overhauls Controversial Price Hike After Game Developers
       Revolt
        
       Author : htk
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-09-22 19:14 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | __loam wrote:
       | Walking back the retroactivity of the license and keeping things
       | as they are for existing projects is huge. Long term though,
       | they've really harmed their brand. I think most people are
       | planning the exit barring huge changes to leadership. Creating a
       | TOS addressing the last time this happened, then getting rid of
       | that TOS anyway makes using Unity in the future a huge business
       | risk.
        
       | LightHugger wrote:
       | I think the most important issue they've failed to address is
       | that they haven't fixed the license they edited earlier this
       | year. The edits changed the license to allow for retroactive
       | changes to pricing.
       | 
       | The new fees seem mostly reasonable especially as a non-
       | retroactive offer (though new engagement sounds like an annoyance
       | to keep track of from the developer end), but they haven't given
       | anyone any kind of legal guarantee or feeling of safety, other
       | than their word. And their word isn't worth anything anymore,
       | nobody is going to trust unity for a long time.
        
       | s09dfhks wrote:
       | Do they not realize the damage is done
        
       | wernerb wrote:
       | They apparently can't back down completely. The Elon inspired ceo
       | really wants that installation counting in there. It's
       | despicable. You don't pay car companies extra fees if the car
       | gets additional/new drivers. You get the revenue on the initial
       | sale. If this is not enough you need to increase margins and make
       | a better compelling product.
       | 
       | Apparently there will be proprietary software that is going to
       | count installations (.....) but for now according to Bloomberg
       | unity customers need to self report.
        
         | valianteffort wrote:
         | What does this have to do with Elon?
        
         | moogly wrote:
         | > You don't pay car companies extra fees if the car gets
         | additional/new drivers.
         | 
         | Well, not yet...
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe]
        
         | ChrisArchitect wrote:
         | Discussion on the main post:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614793
        
       | scohesc wrote:
       | I'm sure this was entirely intentional.
       | 
       | They announce changes to pricing that vastly exceed what people
       | would reasonably expect and have the internet outrage for a
       | couple weeks so Unity can pull a "we listened to our users!" and
       | roll back their changes to what they actually wanted.
        
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