Unity Is Threatening to Revoke Licenses From DayZ Developer Dean Hall

https://www.404media.co/unity-is-threatening-to-revoke-licenses-from-dayz-developer-dean-hall/

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Bronzebeard@lemm.ee · 34 pts · 1y

Man... Unity really went to shit in the last decade.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y

Sounds like even more reasons to switch to Godot. It won't be an easy process but it will prevent Unity from being a pain in your side.

Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y

The speculation in the article that eventually Unity will be bought by some private equity type criminal group that will destroy the solution seems very realistic.

Odo@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

With all Unity's layoffs over the last couple years, I can't help but wonder if they turned to AI and it erroneously reported about non-existent employees and incorrect licenses.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Sounds like something an AI would do.

Maestro@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why hasn't RocketWerkz not switched away from Unity for their upcoming projects? It should have been clear after the install fee debacle that Unity cannot be trusted.

RixMixed@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y

Their newest game is going to be on a custom engine. As for the games still being updated or about to release I think they said would be very expensive to rebuild in a new engine at this point.

XScorpion2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

He posted to reddit a week or so ago. Per his own post, he has 5 license violations according to Unity. I've worked with Unity licenses for the last 10+ years, and 3 of those 5 are actual license violations, the last two are mistakes that take a simple email to fix.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Break license TOS, except to lose license

DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

There's nothing to suggest that's the case here. Stop white-knighting for scum companies.

XScorpion2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Follow the links, his original reddit post showed he indeed was violating unity license agreements 3 times, the 2 mentioned here are simple mistakes a quick email would have fixed.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

There’s nothing to suggest it isn’t either. Stop sucking corporate dick

DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What the heck are you smoking? Unity is the corpo here.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Both companies are

DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

RocketWerkz is an indie dev with, from what I can find, 64 employees. I wouldn't exactly call that corpo material.