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[-] VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

By the definition of “distributor” this would include Steam, GOG, Epic, etc. as well.

[-] colonial@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

In before one of them starts stripping or firewalling the phone-home code. What's Unity gonna do? Valve hasn't signed any contracts with them!

[-] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago

I don't want another attack vector for some hacker on my computer. That phone home code will be the second coming of the Sony rootkit.

[-] TotesIllegit@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

This sounds like it would mean charging Valve money for the privilege of using Valve's own infrastructure every time a player installed a Unity game after a major PC upgrade/reinstall or after uninstalling that MMO they dumped every other game in their library try out.

Steam could probably bake a ban on software that uses installation trackers into their developer/publisher ToS, or ban the collection or transmission of Steam user data related to installations, or something similar.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Apple has Unity games in Apple Arcade I’m sure; which is like “iCloud GamePass”. So add another behemoth with almost more lawyers than money.

[-] VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Lmao, Unity is not going to get away with this.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Apple also brought Unity onboard for Vision Pro development. They are absolutely going to roll over Unity.

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