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Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a "Violation of section 5.10.4 of the Provider agreement." This is a contridiction however. According to Martin Finkel in the linked article, "Unity itself, both the Editor and the runtime (which means your shipped game) is already using LGPL dependencies! Unity is built on libraries such as Lame, libiconv, libwebsockets and websockify.js (at least)." Unity is swiftly coming to it's demise.

Edit: link to Videolan Blog Post: https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Wait, people are still using Unity after they clearly demonstrated they'll fuck you on a whim? Honestly, seems like everyone's been given a fair warning about dealing with these scumbags. I get migrating a codebase is a motherfucker, and sometimes it is even easier to redevelop much or all of the project. But again, if you're renting retail space from someone who is a psychopath, bipolar, and an arsonist (Unity in this case), and they might burn your shop down at any moment, sometimes you gotta move!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Uh.... Ofc they are?

Even after all this I'm about to start a new game using unity. Why?

Because there's no way I can bring it to market with the ecosystems available in any other major engine given the type of game that it is. I've already prototyped for almost a year using various options to narrow it down.

I would be forced to build so much from scratch for the mapping tech that I'd never ship it in say Godot.

Do I want to use unity? Hell no, but am I going to give up on my dream because screw unity? Hell no. I'm not into pyric victories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There are a lot of ways to bring a game to market without Unity or Unreal. But if you can't envision doing an input mapping system yourself just stop right now. It's only going to get worse, engine or not.

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