Fort Libris update, and KSP advice... · 5:46am Sep 16th, 2023
First: about 2/3 of the Fort Libris pledges have shipped. The rest will likely go out next week.
Second: if you like the original KSP but don't currently have it installed, I strongly suggest you do so now.
And if you want to buy it but haven't yet, do it SOON and do it on GOG or someplace with no DRM- NOT on Steam.
Long story short, the company that makes the Unity game engine- which KSP is built on- announced it's changing their TOS to charge for every single download and make various other demands... and some of those charges are RETROACTIVE.
Which means, though I've heard no announcements, KSP may not be available much longer, because I just don't see SQUAD or Take 2 Interactive being willing to pay the Danegeld on a twelve-year-old game, and even less willing to adapt it to a new engine. (Or, considering how shit KSP2 still is, not even ABLE to adapt it.)
Well that sucks. There are an awful lot of games made with Unity that are probably going to just go poof now.
Assuming the backlash doesn't make them back off, like it has with quite a few companies recently.
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Which apparently they're doubling down on, so probably not
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Apparently they're being sued by multiple corporate supergiants over this (Microsoft, Nintendo, Disney). If they truly refuse to change course, I can see them no longer existing as company by the time this would have gone into effect and thus not needing to be paid off.
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You got to love how fast the corpos move to protect their bottom line
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Indeed, you don't miss with the big three. they do pull a lot of muscle
but it is good thing that Godot are getting attention