Very funny how invested people are in this.
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I read today that about half the games are made with unity, imagine if most of those pulled the games you purchased so it can’t be installed again. That is a huge hit to gaming.
Well they obviously won't. It's always the same with these things, they either come to terms, or the producers will pay up, or the reports are overblown or whatever. Just like reddit didn't lose half its userbase after the API switch, or Youtube doesn't crumble because everyone throws a fit when they add another commercial slot and swears to move to "pipetube" or whatever (lol). But thank god we're all really really invested in something that is essentially corporate politics.
It's not corporate politics if it's going to have an effect on the end users. You'd be surprised at how big of an impact this will have, if they don't backpedal this and cancel it entirely, and even if they do it could still an impact.
It's crazy how successful they've been off just making and selling a good indie game. They're still doing free updates AND they can afford a $200k donation?
Terraria is like the anti-modern game. They absolutely refuse to evilly monetize their game at all. The playerbase is almost on their knees, begging them to move on from Terraria and make something else (not because Terraria is bad, but they've been at it for over a decade!) and they continue to churn out updates. The fanbase voted for a set of features to appear in Terraria 2, which they then turned around and scrapped, and added it as an update to Terraria. And all their updates are always free. And can't forget about their amazing mod support.
And redigit is just, like, the man.