The same Unity jerk targeted my small educational software company and shook us down for $5000/year industry licenses because we have a grant. I had to let one of my devs go.

When I originally wrote the grant, we had budgeted for $80/month Pro licenses (what I was paying at the time). I've had a Pro license since 2011. It's alarming that they're in such a bad spot to try to draw blood from a stone in this way.

This is developers own fault for licensing a platform that can be audited and taken away at a moments notice. It's better to support software that doesn't require a license. Open Source is going to be the future. Glad these corps are shooting themselves in the foot.

Unity feels like such a bottomless pit of bad management decisions, I truly don't know why anyone still uses it today. I switched 2 years ago, when they came up with their insane pricing models. Their tech stack had already accumulated its own problems, but I never had a good enough reason to re-learn everything until then. Even though they pedalled back eventually, I never returned because the alternatives are actually better in so many ways. Unity certainly was the best engine for indies at one time, but it has lost it's most important edge, which was being nice and fun to work with. Other engines have some problems in this department too, but at least they don't have crazy management that will only make everything worse for sure in the future.