07-05-2019, 11:23 AM
Did Unity Lie About Enlighten’s Removal?
Yesterday we reported the news that Unity was removing Enlighten from future version of the Unity game engine. I mentioned multiple times in that story that the following statement made very little sense:
Geomerics hasn’t operated Enlighten since 2017 when it was sold to Silicon Studio. Since posting that story, we received the following comment from a representative at Silicon Studio:
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There was additionally the following conversation on the Unity blog post:
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To clarify then, Enlighten as a product isn’t going away. From my interpretation of events, it seems Unity’s license for Enlighten was expiring so they decided to develop an in-house replacement instead of renewing a license with Silicon Studio. Simply stating that would have been a great deal less misleading than the approach they took, an approach that could arguably harm the perceptions of Enlighten going forward.
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Yesterday we reported the news that Unity was removing Enlighten from future version of the Unity game engine. I mentioned multiple times in that story that the following statement made very little sense:
Quote:Due to Geomerics shutting down Enlighten as a product, Unity is required to remove Enlighten.
Geomerics hasn’t operated Enlighten since 2017 when it was sold to Silicon Studio. Since posting that story, we received the following comment from a representative at Silicon Studio:
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There was additionally the following conversation on the Unity blog post:
[url=https://www.gamefromscratch.com/image.axd?picture=image_3436.png]
To clarify then, Enlighten as a product isn’t going away. From my interpretation of events, it seems Unity’s license for Enlighten was expiring so they decided to develop an in-house replacement instead of renewing a license with Silicon Studio. Simply stating that would have been a great deal less misleading than the approach they took, an approach that could arguably harm the perceptions of Enlighten going forward.
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