Unity is going to charge for installations of games using their engine

[Chazore]

Zkuq said:

Hiku said:

Is any of this suposed to apply to games already released? Because that would be insane. Imagine signing the contract, and then years later find out you owe them millions because of this new policy they added after the fact.

Yes, as far as I know. And yes, that's absolutely insane, in fact the craziest part about this in my opinion.

That's why I get annoyed whenever a game I bought years ago is updated (be it MP or SP game) with EoS, and the dev's EULA isn't changed, nor did I buy the game's years ago to expect EoS to be injected into the games I bought, which in turn muck around with my games and render them useless in Steam's offline mode (this already happened with me and KillingFloor 2, a game I was originally able to play on my own in offline mode, but ever since EoS was injected in the game I can no longer do as such, nor can I remove EoS fully).

Making these kinds of changes last minute and not telling us ahead of time, even in the case for Unity and devs is insane all on it's own.

This makes me wonder now if lawyers could get involved, because devs signed for these some yrs back, not for what is currently happening now, which will obviously take a hit to their finances, and they did not originally agree to this (because it was never there until recently).