If you need both hands, then your head should also be involved, and not worrying about coffee. Maybe the car manufacturer should have been a defendant in the case for lack of cupholder accessibility? 
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True, very surprising they didn’t sue the car manufacturer as well to fish for a few more bucks.
We’ve seen far sillier cases winning in court…
[To be fair, the decision was later reversed by a higher court. But it is still hilarious that she won in the first instance.]
Yeah that was the same rebuttal when WotC dropped that OGL debacle. One way or another they will definitely get their 
Reddit sees everything as a trap, because Reddit doesn’t understand the difference between skepticism and pessimism.
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And nuance and potentially context.
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So is it reasonable to assume that any time in the future, they can arbitrarily “alter the deal” any time they want, putting all games that use it into jeopardy? Like, this could possibly take down the Last Epoch servers and basically shut the game down, depending on how they want to “alter the deal” in the future…
Unity has become Darth Vader…
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
They went back on it. Turns out the CEO (which was the one that wanted that introduced lootboxes and wanted to create microtransactions to reload your weapon in FPSs) sold a bunch of shares before the announcement and it all might have simply been about playing the stock market.
This also happened with the D&D license and they also backed down. It can basically happen with any engine, tbf.
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Oh well, what´s gonna happen is going to happen. And it is and will going to happen, and usually us the consumers are the main target, so we are going to have to take the impact in the end.
Good thing then I am as old as i am, and have lost much of the interest in playing in general, and only sticks to a handful of games to focus on.
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DJSamhein, they didn’t go back on it, there is now a new policy as of this year, that the developers will be charged 20 cents per install per device. They never went back on that.
Further, this shows that at any time, they can increase that price to something more. This WILL have an impact on developers.
As I replied on the other thread, they backed down and only made the new conditions apply to the new engine version.
So the developers are just supposed to never update the engine? I doubt they will never update the engine. If they decide to do it (for the many benefits, including continued support), they will be “under the gun” so to speak.
I’m sure Unity will say they no longer “support” the older versions of the engine, as most companies do (looking at you, Microsoft), which will incentivize developers, such as Eleventh Hour Games, to update to the newer version. Especially if it includes many bug fixes.
Games still in development have that choice. This was mostly done for games that were already completed. There are many games that were released with prior versions of Unity and the initially proposed change would apply to them as well. Completed games will almost certainly never update their engine version.
The initial fee change was meant to apply to many games that were already finished on the market and selling a lot. And only the backlash from the community made them back down from it.
Devs from games in development, like LE, have the option to either not update or get the new pricing fees. Or change engines altogether. They will have to analyse all options and see which makes more sense financially.
Depends what’s in the Ts & Cs of the contract you signed when you started development with the engine.
That will always be the case for any system you don’t make in-house or otherwise control. Doesn’t matter whether it’s a game engine or hardware or anything else. Always read the mother-loving contract or get a lawyer to review it so you can understand what the potential issues are.
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