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Cult of the Lamb Developer Threatens to Delete Game on Jan 1 Amid Unity Backlash - IGN (www.ign.com)

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The developer of superb action-roguelite Cult of the Lamb has threatened to delete the game on January 1 amid a row with game engine company Unity.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Try to charge me retroactively for anything and see how fast I lawyer up.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Right? How the fuck is it legal to decide that your customers retroactively owe you money just because you unilaterally said so?

[–] HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One of the really fun details about this fiasco is a few years back, after they had made a big PR fuck up like this, Unity stated they would make their Terms of Service version-bound. If you had Unity 2019 and continued to use it forever, you would only have to abide by the ToS for that version. Put simply, they could not retroactively apply new changes to you.

...Guess which segment got quietly removed last year!

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I would think their public statements would significantly hurt the ability to do this, even if developers "agreed" to the terms without that clause.

I straight up don't think they could legally do it either way. But if they made public statements specifically addressing this particular thing, it has to significantly weaken their case.

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