Unity has flipped a switch to become one of the most baffling companies in the video game industry overnight. After rolling out some changes to their newly announced, controversial fee structure meant to not harm smaller games, while still raking in new revenue from whales like Genshin Impact, the company’sThis began with a bizarre conversation where an indie dev, David Vallieres, asked about Terms of Service which were going to be retroactively changed, and for a time, were deleted altogether.
Unity appears to be saying that it deleted its Terms of Service ahead of the release of the new fee structure because it…wasn’t being viewed enough. As in, its pageviews were low so they figured they might as well just delete it. Of course, Terms of Service do not exist to rake in pageviews, they are there for legal reasons and to delete them entirely seems rather absurd, particularly in this context.