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		wokwokwok on March 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Godot at GDC 2018 Perpetual arbitrary changing license fees are something everyone wants to avoid. The fees went away, they started moving. Its more complicated than that, but ultimately they won: the people demanding license fees got flipped off and they got what they wanted for free. ...so, I know a lot of people have been angry about this, but by every metric what they did was a total business success. If you want the guys from Unity to act differently, you have to actually tangibly affect them (eg. pick a different engine), not just complain.

doomlaser on March 26, 2018 | [–]

I sort of feel the same way, but they've just copied the Adobe and Autodesk licensing model, and its hard to blame them considering how well that has worked out for those other companies.

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