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Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
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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…

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[–] MudMan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

All the debate about the hypothetical hostile uses of the scheme are... more valid than I'd like, given that it's clear they hadn't thought about any of them, but it's missing the forest for the trees.

The forest is that even if this worked as intended it'd be a dealbreaker. That's the forest.