This is standard business tactics.

Do not fall for it.

An absurd change followed by rolling it back to an “acceptable” version that is still worse than their original position prior to the initial announcement.

This is a psychological manipulation.

And more to the point it ignores the issue of their violation of trust and consistency.

This is still precedent, they still showed their hand.

They want to have “passive income” at your expense.

Learn Godot.

"Okay, okay… Let’s admit that our old idea of pi**ing all over your heads may have gone a little too far…

So, here’s the deal. We will pi** a bit on your left shoulder …BUT! But, but, but… It will be UPWIND!! SEE!? Upwind!!

So basically, you’ll be missed most of the times! Basically like never get hit at all!" 👍

Far too little, far too late. Even if this was the most glowing revision ever (it isn’t, but even if it was), the trust is gone.

So this was the actual deal they were going for. We’ll see if the big players will stick with unity.

fair changes, but the ONLY way forward is to fire riccitello. i don’t see how anyone can trust them again until that happens.

removal of the retroactivity piece will likely appease a large number of devs tho (dunno if it’ll be the majority but that was the biggest wtf for me)

“I am sorry,” Unity executive and industry veteran Marc Whitten said in the blog post.

sound of me spitting I’ll wait until next year to see what’s really gonna happen.