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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle::Even though the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial new fee policy, the damage is done.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago

Unity engaged not only in a massive attepted money grab but then tried to back it with some bad-faith action like quietly deleting user protections from its TOS.

We have seen the true face of the Unity company and it wants to prey on its clients. Also the timing (during an ongoing trend of enshittification) reminds us publicly-owned companies are not our friends. In fact, the are adversarial to their own employees and customers.

The company needs to show an immense amount of contrition (say firing its top officers) or it needs to wither to a quarter of its current value.