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minus-squareDasnap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·edit-21 year agoYeah, this isn’t a “I’m never using Twitter again!” kind of fiasco. This has upset Capitalist™®© company heads, who now see Unity as a financial risk. Money tends to have more of a sway than morality.
minus-squaresgtlighttree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 year agoApparently Genshin Impact and some Nintendo Games are made in Unity, and there are even some plans to charge Microsoft for Game Pass installs. I hope Unity’s legal team is prepared.
minus-squaretroutsushi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·1 year ago I hope Unity’s legal team is prepared. I really hope they’re not, because this practice needs to crash and burn brightly as a warning beacon to other corpos’ grubby fingers.
minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 year agoI hope their anuses are prepared. Nintendo sure as fuck aren’t bringing any lube.
minus-squareGetawombatupya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoMental image of “it’s a Me!” thrust
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·1 year agoWell I mean I wouldn’t mind seeing Genshin Impact suffer. They’re advertising and fanbase are insufferable. But I’ve never been a fan of Unity and it’s nice to see everybody else getting on board now too.
Yeah, this isn’t a “I’m never using Twitter again!” kind of fiasco. This has upset Capitalist™®© company heads, who now see Unity as a financial risk. Money tends to have more of a sway than morality.
Apparently Genshin Impact and some Nintendo Games are made in Unity, and there are even some plans to charge Microsoft for Game Pass installs.
I hope Unity’s legal team is prepared.
I really hope they’re not, because this practice needs to crash and burn brightly as a warning beacon to other corpos’ grubby fingers.
I hope their anuses are prepared.
Nintendo sure as fuck aren’t bringing any lube.
Mental image of “it’s a Me!” thrust
Well I mean I wouldn’t mind seeing Genshin Impact suffer. They’re advertising and fanbase are insufferable. But I’ve never been a fan of Unity and it’s nice to see everybody else getting on board now too.