Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’

Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by mattigames on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:40PM (#18885178)

>Unity's terms state that you need an additional license if you want to use some tools because that's how it's monetized

That's a bit dishonest, when they say "you need an additional license" for cloud platforms they mean a custom license that has to be directly negotiated with Unity, it not just something you can click and buy; meaning no transparency and pretty much a closed door.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by andybak on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:18PM (#18885534)

Are you saying there's no way Improbable could have partnered with Unity? I get the impression it was simply a disagreement about who got what share of the bounty.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by mattigames on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:35PM (#18885668)

We don't know the percentages of the disagreement, maybe Unity asked for 90% or something illogical for Improbable to accept.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by andybak on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:24PM (#18886078)

I agree. I think there's lots we don't know about this. It feels like "Clash of the corps" rather than "Boo! Evil bigcorp!"

Until we know more I'm hitting the popcorn.

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