Megan FoxUnity saying "don't worry we'll send a bill to Microsoft and Sony and-" has huge Sovereign Citizen Sending Letter Signed In Blood To Reclaim Their Federal Taxes energy. https://twistedvoxel.com/unity-playstation-xbox-nintendo-pay-on-behalf-of-devs/
Scott Michaud@glassbottommeg PC Developers> <turns the chair backwards and sits down>
Janne Moren@glassbottommeg
Yes, I really didn't get that part. In what universe are those companies not going "Hahaha. No."?
Yes, I really didn't get that part. In what universe are those companies not going "Hahaha. No."?
Pyral@glassbottommeg lmao my sides are so far in orbit that they are experiencing floating point rounding errors.
@glassbottommeg Also I want to highlight something. It's not just the big three gaming consoles. There's also app stores for mobile and Steam/itch/etc. If they literally don't just accept egg on the face and rolled this out attempting to force the distributors to cover the costs, that could call for dropping support for the engine or refusing to distribute it. That is one of few (extreme, probably not likely) situations that I could see causing a real exodus. Inability to distribute your game on the major platforms would be huge.
It's possible these platforms could pass the bill onto the devs, but the question would be if they even want to add that workload overhead to their platform or if they want to take a PR hit when it's apparent no one is happy for the changes.
It's possible these platforms could pass the bill onto the devs, but the question would be if they even want to add that workload overhead to their platform or if they want to take a PR hit when it's apparent no one is happy for the changes.
ARBco@glassbottommeg "Mr. Newell, we have a bill for you to the tune of seventy kajiilion dollars ... Oh, no, we don't have a contract with you, but- ... See, you host games on your storefront that signed a- ... Yes, I know it has nothing to do with you but they're very upset and you're very rich, so- ... hello? Hello?"
Katerina Marchán@glassbottommeg @jaycie I laughed so suddenly and loudly that I scared my baby
cthos 🐱@glassbottommeg hahahahaha oh my gods that’s an amazing way to phrase that
MagmaSys/'wertercatt'@glassbottommeg I say 98% chance Valve opens the Steam Warchest and has their legal team send Unity straight to hell.
Somehow Valve ends up owning the Unity engine, which they just throw on GitHub and dust their hands of to focus on Source 2
Somehow Valve ends up owning the Unity engine, which they just throw on GitHub and dust their hands of to focus on Source 2
core@wertercatt @glassbottommeg
I'm sure Epic would love to end up owning Unity. They'd take out a major competitor in a knockout blow.
I'm sure Epic would love to end up owning Unity. They'd take out a major competitor in a knockout blow.
Delric
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@glassbottommeg Aaand MS lawyers will go "LOL no"
André-LA 🎀 gamedev@Andre_LA not stonks 📉 
Ash@glassbottommeg It's certainly a novel theory of contract law that Unity is operating under, there.
@ashteranic I wonder if they'll draw the "u owe me 100 kajillion dollar and pizza party" letters in crayon too for the full effect
Alexander The 1st@glassbottommeg It also has very "We're going to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and Mexico is going to pay for it!" energy.
David Amador
Karyl 
@djlink @glassbottommeg Nintendo being so fucking litigious all the time sucks, but in this ONE instance I’m on board with it lol
Markus Hofer@glassbottommeg yep. Good luck with that.
Ben from CDS@glassbottommeg This is such a funny idea of how anything works. The executives at Unity who came up with this must be so thick the spoon stands up. Real Musk-level intellects.
@glassbottommeg Can I write a contract that my friend signs and then Unity have to pay me money?
(Matthew)=> 🏳️🌈🇿🇦🎮💻📖@glassbottommeg Like, this is how games get delisted right? These games are just gonna get delisted. Videogame history preservation for who?
Devin Handspiker-WadeOf course! Some of the most litigious companies in the world aren't going to take issue with paying for a contract that they weren't a party to. /s
Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft doesn't just tell Unity to fuck off, but instead assigns a legal team to just make sure no one else gets the same idea again.
Lu, Magical Goth@glassbottommeg oh, Unity, you say that I, Bigtech, owes you money because I distribute third party software? How cute...