Comment on Unity issue an apology on Twitter for "confusion and angst" over the runtime fee policy.

SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• detalferous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “we’re sorry for how you reacted”

  Appalling

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• zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My god, they’re becoming alien ants

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  • Beemoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And just like, the movies, we play out our last scene.

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  • CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Unity execs thought they were being smooth criminals, instead they came in too rough and got busted.

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  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stupid voice typing… fixed :{

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• cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brain dead is such an understatement too. They lost everyone’s trust, and I’m not sure there’s anything they can say to regain it. They’re gonna try something like this again at some point, and I don’t think anyone should give them the opportunity. They deserve to go under.

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  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trust is hard to build and easy to break and even harder to rebuild.

    To truly rebuild trust, they’d need to commit to never doing this again. That would mean 1. a change to the legal TOS that a developer who licenses for a project at a certain pricing level may remain at that price level for that project / that generation of Unity for as long as they wish, 2. a public commitment to never require per-install pricing, and ideally 3. the resignation of whoever came up with this brain dead idea.

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    • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Indeed, only a legal guarantee would satisfy me. Put it in writing in all the contracts that unity is not allowed to charge per install and then we can talk

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• uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  doesn’t say what it should, namely ‘we fucked up and we’re sorry’.

  I don’t think they fucked up in the way you mean (from their point of view). Their mistake was not getting away with the change, their “apology” sounds to me like they are going to reword their new policy but ultimately still have it do somewhat the same thing.

  IMO they should never had done this in the first place and should now say “we are sorry, our mistake, it won’t happen again”.

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  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, this 100%.

    To truly restore trust, it should be ‘we’re sorry, our mistake, it won’t happen again, our new TOS will guarantee the right to remain at a current license price structure for a given generation of the engine, we hereby promise to never ever require per-install pricing, and the person responsible for this change is no longer with the company’.

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