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Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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So I have Tabletop Simulator and Planet Crafter, the first of which is way more important to me as I use it to run my weekly D&D game. With hundreds of custom assets, and hours upon hours of scripting to make it work how I want. Since I've already purchased these games and have them installed, is it fair to keep using them?
I think it's totally fair. I don't know if this is the right take here but I think we as gamers have limited power in this situation as we're not really Unity's customers. It's the developers who have the power to move away from or limit their use of Unity and pressure them to change this decision especially as good alternatives exist already in the market. I know this doesn't help for existing games but hopefully they can at least get Unity not to make these fees retroactive, seems legally questionable to me as a layman at least.
Maybe one easy thing us gamers can do is to block unity domains at the network level. I'm not sure how they track installs but I'm guessing it must include some kind of phone home.
Good pirates firewall their loot anyway.