Comment on Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for <$1mil or for games on current/old versions
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoYeah, if they didn’t do this and literally just said “from this future version royalties from high earners will need to be paid, as we need an income source. The old version will be a LTS release.” and it would have been literally fine.
But retroactively screwing people like this? Obviously they will lose trust, and I do not understand how they didn’t understand that.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the people who made the decision aren’t people familiar with the product or the community it caters to. They only see numbers and how mug the numbers could be…
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
They could have done some fucking research. The message they sent was they didn’t care about fallout. So they deserve all the blowback of ever.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They believed they could get away with it.