Considering how reluctant they are to share information about their “proprietary software,” I wouldn’t be surprised if you are right about that. 

Yeah, I’d love to know how Unity plans to actually distinguish between qualified installations and unqualified ones. How will they handle pirated copies? Is the DRM part of the installer or the executable itself? Will developers/publishers need to make separate builds and depots for charity/bundled copies of games?

What’s genuinely shocking is that Unity believe they can apparently completely unilaterally make absolutely vast changes to their rules, without consultation, without real warning, and severely to the detriment of the people using their product. Even if they get you to sign something saying that, that’s not exactly…

Or there’s a third option: religion and purity culture fucked him up so bad he’s terrified of sex and women. It wouldn’t be the first time, and we’ve all seen seen what happens when men like that DO marry: Josh Duggar. 

I read the whole WaPo piece this morning and when I got to that quote I honestly stopped short. Like, oh boy. That guy really said that and thought, “Yeah, this is the image of myself I want to put out there to the world!” 

Yup, there’s no reasonable way to predict how much this could cost the dev and could easily outrun their profit over time. I'm a customer with a desktop, steam deck, laptop, and family sharing with two kids, that’s a lot of potential installs from a single purchase.

At this point no reasonable CTO or small game dev will choose Unity. Even if they roll this change back, the damage is done. The risk is far too high to start a new project that will take years to complete for Unity to suddenly do a rug pull on your project.

And as a Democrat, I’d accept that as a person. His problem is his party of choice is a bunch of Christofascist hypocrites. 

As a dev myself this was my first thought. A lot of people are about to switch to UE5. 

including that charity games and bundles are excluded from fees

They’re just going to push indies to use Unreal 5 instead, which is already very fair / reasonable for small indies. This change will make UE5 all the more appealing and just result in Unity having committed suicide.

“I’d be more worried about him having a bunch of illegitimate kids than having no kids.”

His girlfriend goes to another high school… across the country. I mean, in Canada. Why do you care anyway? *pouts*

and used “a phone app to do a Bible study together.”

Yeah. It’s a bit like Taryn Manning telling the world she’s eating ass then yelling “leave me alone”.

Wait, so the patriarch who was willing to prostitute out his family on TV and steal their money for himself NOW decides that airing out dirty laundry in the media might be a bad thing?  GTFOoH with those lies Jim Bob.

That documentary was so uncomfortable to watch. It’s amazing the contortions people will put themselves through when there’s money to be made. The man, literally, chose money of the physical safety of his child, then presents himself as the victim.

It’s also important to note that Jim Bob was shitty at negotiations.

I’ll bite.

The funny thing is that there is no more perfect an example for the midwit graph meme than people who are paranoid about Idiocracy becoming real, or people who think that Flagpole Sitta was erudite social commentary.