Something that this last year has shown in spades is how important and reliable FOSS has become across the games industry and in general tech. More than ever, we've been shown that we can't keep depending our work and social media on companies that can rull-pug us at any moment for the sake of their own profit.

Godot, Mastodon, Blender, Krita, and so many more have become big cornerstones of our industry, and they keep evolving daily with more contributors than ever. Excited to see where we go!

It's nice that #Unity3D walked back to terms that don't apply unless you use their latest engine, but that's the take-away: you need to not use their latest anymore. Finish your game. Find another engine. This is just an escape clause.

Anyone who sticks with them will get screwed the next time their c-suite wants to goose their stock price.

If you can find a way to keep making games on old Unity versions, that works too probably. But. You'll hit issues if you want to target consoles. There is no porting path for most (any?) Unity versions more than 2 years old at time of port.

EDIT: (but really even old versions, they already changed their minds once on that, so assuming they won't again is foolish- find a new engine after you finish out current projects)

Often constraints seem problematic. We say, “If only this wasn’t holding me back, then I could succeed.” But is that really true? More often than not, constraints can actually be helpful.

https://joshpeterson.github.io/constraints-are-liberating