Just learning whats going on and its so shitty what they want to do. Sadly its hard to get not install a unity game. Though I am going to boycott for now!
They're retroactively adding a 20 cent fee per install of any Unity game, even games that have been out for years. There are some caveats, but changing the deal after you've already invested the time/money in making a game based on the old terms is unforgivable.
To be clear, as-is this could bankrupt some developers by costing them more than their lifetime revenue, i.e. with free-to-play games where more people install it than pay for anything. They've already started backtracking a little though and this will no doubt continue to change.
This is more about already released games under prior standing licenses. For games with ongoing development unity can get away with this. VRchat would fall under that later group.
But a game released 5 years ago? Unlikely this holds in court.
I feel really bad for the game devs that relied on Unity. It's not their fault and we really shouldn't punish them by no longer buying/installing their games. It's highly unlikely that indie devs could port their games to another engine.
It's worse than that. A helpful reddit thread pointed out that Unity actually put a "prior editions" clause in their license starting back in 2017/2018 allowing you to be held to the version you worked under and had to strip that out *and* nuke the git repos showing that license to hide their tracks
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But it's going to be a larger dev or a class action that will do that. Hopefully for the smaller devs there is an injunction from whoever files suit.
So much of their shit relies on Unity.
But a game released 5 years ago? Unlikely this holds in court.