I bet a hacker group will get a fresh copy of the new Unity runtime, and then disable the phone-home feature, then recommend every dev who makes games to use that runtime instead.

But that's just a bandaid. Unity is likely done.

A bit more reasonable but still, it's per install past a certain threshold. Extremely prone to abuse the moment someone makes an automation script that triggers the install detection a hundred times a minute. A successful Unity game release? Unleash the bot farm and bankrupt any dev you want.

Agreed, it smacks of changing the agreement after the fact. Not a lawyer but it's certainly wrong in the spirit of things.

Just realized this is just a repeat of Wizards of the Coast, deciding to update the 'OGL' where they will own everything you create because the D&D brand is just so good...

So does anyone know which games on gog are unity?
Is there a list of it.
Found a pcgamingwiki list in the thread by searching but it only goes to somewhere games with the letter C how do i see more?

Sort by platform: Linux. Most of those.

It might be worth cross-referencing upcoming deals with engine info from pcgamingwiki in order to determine what might be last chance saloon. Not sure if alarmist, or rational response to impending catastrophe...

I posted the link earlier:-
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_use_Unity

They still haven't explained how they plan on enforcing that for DRM-Free games. For them to know which devices have had first installs, they obviously want the game to upload your motherboard's unique HWID (exactly as Steam CEG protected games + Windows Activation does) then collect them as a database. But that's not going to work for GOG games installed offline / behind a "whitelisted" firewall (block by default, allow by exception). Unless they intend to make online connections a requirement that is...

At this stage, I think it's a good idea if someone at GOG speaks to someone at Unity directly and gets them to clarify a few things for exactly how +2024 Unity Engine releases on GOG are going to work on a technical level as out of that list timesink posted, every issue was addressed - except the fact DRM-Free games can be installed offline and "uncountable"...

Piracy is considerably more risky if you're a business that's profiting off in some way using the pirated tool than if you're an individual pirating something for your own entertainment.

I don't think any game studio would want to risk releasing a game made using any tools or assets that they know to be pirated.

I'll contact PCGW's moderators and get them to take a look.

Edit: This is actually by design. PCGW has had problems in the past of bots being so aggressive constantly "scraping" such huge lists every few minutes that it almost DDOS'd the site. The solution is to create an account and login then the full list is visible.

That could lead to a fun ship of Theseus argument.

Hahaha... yeah right...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKPUARYckc

But in the context to my reply to unity, it's not the game that's pirated... just the runtime.

Though it looks like they are just going to make up numbers and bill companies for money rather than having the runtime phone home, so who knows.

For sure it will be interesting how many Unity games will be pulled from the stores, if nothing changes.

And if GoG will do a Bye Bye Unity Sale within the winter sale...

The list of Unity games is gigantic. Are they all going down that route? It's a damn tragedy.