Welcome @Bezourator
Yes you will need to buy the game, but then you can play without paying anything. There will be an itemshop, but there will be just cosmetics. And there will be a VIP too. You can all read about it in the FAQ's and News, there are a quite few out there with interesting informations.

We will get it soon i think.
Now let the guys work towards future


YEAH !!!

The new TOS by Unity are out.

Essence:

• SpatialOS does not longer breach the TOS, but they are not supported by Unity.
• Improbables licenses will get actived again

What it means for us, will surely and hopefully explain Prometheus soon.

It seems, tomorrow there will be more clarification in Unitys TOS

Bunny! @Mata

At the Kickstarter was a Team Review.
Not sure if they are now more, i think thats something just Prometheus can answer.
I would say that they are not that much yet, who knows, maybe with time and maybe with possibilities they will grow healthy.

@00 said in Unity has blocked SpatialOS - What's up and what it means for us:

If anyone can do a recap of the effective information we have

We don't have much effective informations.
We just have tons of speculations.

To summarize the case:

• Unity revoked licenses of Improbable/SpatialOS
• Improbable informed their customers in public about it and wrote an emotional statement
• Unity got a mass of WHY? from their customers (Unity Develeoper) and the please to give a statement to clear the TOS
• Unity made an Reactive (emotional) Statement in public, where they said things about Improbable and stated that actual Unity Developements are not affected and they can use still SpatialOS for their projects.
• User/Developer got splitted into Pro Improbable or Pro Unity with all the mess of speculations we have now
• Improbable reacted with another Statement when Unreal stepped into the ring
• Improbable made a final (emotional) Statement in Reaction of the Reaction of Unity, where clear statement is about that they will not be able to support and develope Unity integration in SpatialOS, so that Customers are infact affected.
• Unity just pleased their customers to be patient in their forum, because they work on more clear TOS
• While all these i am sure Improbable and Unity are in negotiation how and if it will run in future.

Here we are.
We know nothing.

@target said in Unity has blocked SpatialOS - What's up and what it means for us:

Just because they're able to keep their live game up, doesn't mean they're fine. Without a license, SpatialOS can't support their Unity platform, and without support, further development on the platform is risky. If any major bugs pop up, devs are screwed. If Improbable and Unity can't agree to a solution to at least keep support, these games are still going to have to switch engines or stop updating.

Thats the whole point.

The question about who is guilty and who not we can not answer with the informations we have, because all around are just speculations about the public words of both sides.
All this does not matter, it just matters, that Developer get a clear answer, how they can work on with SpatialOS.

There are just some possiblities how it can work out:

1. Improbable and Unity get any partnership as result of their negotiations: All will be fine for future

• althought the Licence owner are warned, that it can happen again, means the trust is destroyed

2. Improbable and Unity don't get together anymore:

• Developer have to decide, either to stay at SpatialOS and move their Engine or to change the Platform and stay at Unity.

All in all, whatever will happen, the Developer are indeed affected, much affected.
In this case Unity simply lied about this whole "No actual Developement is affected in any kind".

@rutsy said in Unity has blocked SpatialOS - What's up and what it means for us:

@prometheus said in Unity has blocked SpatialOS - What's up and what it means for us:

It's absolutely crazy to think that Unity would block so many of its developer base from a small ToS change. I also heard people saying that they are doing it because they might be releasing their own version of what SpatialOS does?

Most of the "think to know" are pure speculations.

But it is true, that their Cloudplatform is in Alpha right now:
https://unity.com/solutions/real-time-multiplayer/game-server-hosting