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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle::Even though the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial new fee policy, the damage is done.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You know, companies could avoid situations like this if they just engaged directly with their fanbases more, proposing ideas and collecting feedback.

Good news: Apparently Unity did engage with its developers behind closed door for a whole year, they told them this was a bad idea; internally the execs were told this was a bad idea, and here we are.