stopthatgirl7 to [email protected] • 1 year agoUnity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installswww.eurogamer.netexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…
minus-squareconciselyverboselinkfedilink17•1 year agoI really feel like they’re going to lose a lawsuit on that. Unilateral contracts don’t have unlimited power and “we can blanket change what we want to charge you on games already made” doesn’t seem like it’s going to be enforceable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoExactly - as others have pointed out, if they can do this, what’s stopping them from raising it to $1 per install, or $100?
I really feel like they’re going to lose a lawsuit on that.
Unilateral contracts don’t have unlimited power and “we can blanket change what we want to charge you on games already made” doesn’t seem like it’s going to be enforceable.
Exactly - as others have pointed out, if they can do this, what’s stopping them from raising it to $1 per install, or $100?