The Equipment, a recreation engine we first coated in 2020 seems to have shut down and have finished so in maybe the worst approach attainable. On July twenty eighth, 2022 they made adjustments to their EULA, then just a few days later despatched the next e-mail to all of their customers (together with myself):
Hello Everyone,
Thanks a lot for supporting The Equipment.
Sadly, we’ve reached some extent the place it’s not attainable for us to proceed within the present course. Per Part 14 of the Finish Consumer License Settlement, the event of The Equipment will stop, all licenses are terminated as of 14 days after the date of this discover, and you might be requested to delete your copies of The Equipment.
We actually appreciated you being part of the Our Equipment Neighborhood. We hope we have now been useful ultimately to your improvement wants.
-Our Equipment
That is an particularly painful transfer to those who joined The Equipment in early entry as paying prospects. This implies studios might probably have over a 12 months of labor invested in utilizing The Equipment and all that’s for naught now. As an alternative of granting a perpetual license to these paying prospects, the EULA as an alternative states:
Upon the termination of your license, you need to instantly (a) stop all use of the Service and the Content material, and (b) destroy any copies of the Service or Content material in your possession, custody or management, together with any associated supply code and/or binaries of the Service or the Content material.
This horrible approach of shutting down a proprietary recreation engine is maybe the one simplest commercial that open supply recreation engines might ever ask for. You’ll be able to study extra about the whole ordeal within the video beneath.
