[EA-3167]

I think the bottom line damage is that no one is going to develop new games on Unity if they have any other choice. Even if Unity walks this back 100%, why would a dev trust them not to pull this again in the future? Maybe some large projects will stop looking at migration in the short-term, but any new work is going to start happening elsewhere for sure.

[sangnoir]

> Even if Unity walks this back 100%, why would a dev trust them not to pull this again in the future?

This is why I stopped paying JetBrains, despite them 100% walking back their idiotic licensing change proposal many years ago. I love(d) the products, but could no longer trust the decision-makers.

[PaulKeeble]

They went back to the monthly billing with no option for buying a version permenantly. I think you can still fix your version for a while without upgrades but they will force an upgrade at some point now. The original issue I complained about has returned.

[maccard]

I don't know of them for ing an upgrade. If you subscribe for 12 months you get perpetual access to the version that was available when you subscribed, so you can buy a version for 12 monthly subscriptions. There's nothing wrong with that IMO

[Macha]

Jetbrains?

Seems the same model it was when they moved to subscriptions:

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206544479-Subs...

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

[sangnoir]

> Jetbrains?

Yes!

> Seems the same model it was when they moved to subscriptions

Indeed, but there was a period of brain-dead decision making in 2015 where they announced a very different direction and back-tracked 2 weeks later.

They announced plans for an evergreen subscription model, but the flip side was that they'd brick your IDE (with no fallback) the moment your subscription lapsed[1]. The only reason the subscription model seems unchanged from their initial one was because of the outrage their controversial change generated.

I found this unconscionable - they backtracked (faster than Unity to their credit, but still)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10170089

[Macha]

Yes, that was years ago, the "move to subscriptions" that the since in my post referred to. The parent poster was claiming they'd backtracked since on getting the perpetual fallback license, which doesn't seem true.

[sangnoir]

Got it - I mixed up the reply levels