An open letter to our community | Unity Blog
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An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.
  • Hazzard@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Seems like a sensible overhaul, hitting the major issues with the fee, but still going ahead with a version of it. Big points for me:

    • Not retroactive. Only affecting the next version of Unity, and you can even opt out of updating to skip the fee.
    • Data is now reported by the customers. Still not sure how that plan to enforce this, but it's a hell of a lot better than some arbitrary data collection scheme being baked into the game.
    • Free version is excluded. No charging tiny side projects, or students or something, it only affects already paying customers.

    Still not sure I love charging per install as a concept, and they've already overplayed their hand and burnt many bridges, but at least this implementation isn't insanely hostile. Guess we'll see how this plays out from here.