Gaming

Unity: Everyone really seems to hate EA

Also Unity: Let's hire the CEO of EA

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If there was a foolproof way of checking for a pirated copy they wouldn't be making a game engine they'd be making DRM

I'm not sure why they hired him.

"Hey we're looking for a new captain, why don't we go for the guy who repeatedly sails into rocks? He'll be good."

Key bit feels like "can we trust their algorithm"

It's hard to enforce a "just trust me, this is what you owe"

Guy just sank the ship

You can usually tell a unique machine apart from another via MAC address, but even that has issues, and that's giving Unity the benefit of the doubt when they haven't earned it.

You're right, they're absolutely collecting data, but saying they can't differentiate between activations and then saying "oh yeah, actually, we can when it comes to (piracy/bundles/charity/etc.)" less than 24 hours later tells me that not only do they not care about game devs, but they think we're stupid too.

Because they realize that a huge number of their customers are small indies, and they want to be able to squeeze them - the majority of their customer base - not just the minority of big companies (who are also the most likely to fight back legally).

Just look at how their scheme squeezes smaller, poorer developers way more than big ones. If Unity went by points like, say Epic does with Unreal, they could shake down the big developers… but wouldn’t get much out of the indies.

It work for paid games, youd have to apply it to microtransaction level if by f2p game, which is the real target for the change.

Good point, they can't both be true...but they CAN both be false. I'm hiring you as my lawyer.

Unreal for "commercial, highly documented, also an industry standard"

Godot for "this is actually libre software and you can trust it to not enshittify itself in a couple years"

Godot is FOSS.

Unreal is decent too i guess but.. not free. (Though iirc its free if you publish your game on epic)

Godot