These corporate "apologies" always rub me the wrong way. A policy like this had to pass through so many hands before getting certified. You just know that a whole room full of C-Suite executives genuinely thought this was a good idea and couldn't think through its potential problems.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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That's because they still think it's a good idea, they just thought that they could get away with it
[...] Under the tentative new plan, Unity will limit fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers making over $1 million and said that installations counted toward reaching the threshold won’t be retroactive,
really? Thats nearly the same appeasement Wizards of the Hasbro offered after that huge debacle earlier this year.
FUCK THEM!
4% royalty is fine, but they might as well remove the weird install-tracking bullshit at this point.
And stop unilaterally, retroactively modifying contracts.
I still don't understand how modifying contracts that already exist without written consent from the other party is even legal. I mean, isn't the whole point of a contract to enforce the conditions of an agreement? If one side can just change it willy-nilly, doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose of a contract in the first place?
Seriously, if someone more legal-minded could explain this, that would be fantastic.
Oh, there won’t be any install-tracking. They will „rely on users to self-report the data“. Sounds to me like they didn’t have any plan for how to reliably track installations in the first place because this is CEO bullshit bingo that was never cleared with the r&d department. So now „I’m sure the users won’t lie to us“ is their best option.
One of the most controversial elements of the policy concerned how Unity would track installations of its software. Although the company first said it would use proprietary tools, Whitten said Monday management will rely on users to self-report the data.
Do I even need to comment on this or can we just get some popcorn and watch while they find out that self-reporting doesn’t work?
Its such a shame that Ultrakill has zero downloads and as such has to pay no fees.