07-05-2019, 11:23 AM
Did Unity Lie About Enlighten’s Removal?
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/did-unity-lie-about-enlightens-removal.png" width="904" height="173" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Yesterday we reported the news that <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/07/03/Unity-Removing-Enlighten-Support.aspx">Unity was removing Enlighten</a> from future version of the Unity game engine. I mentioned multiple times in that story that the following statement made very little sense:</p>
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<p>Due to Geomerics shutting down Enlighten as a product, Unity is required to remove Enlighten.</p>
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<p>Geomerics hasn’t operated Enlighten since 2017 when it was <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-06-15-silicon-studio-acquires-enlighten-tech-from-geomerics">sold to Silicon Studio</a>. Since posting that story, we received the following comment from a representative at Silicon Studio:</p>
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<p>There was additionally the following conversation on the Unity blog post:</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/did-unity-lie-about-enlightens-removal.png" width="904" height="173" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Yesterday we reported the news that <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/07/03/Unity-Removing-Enlighten-Support.aspx">Unity was removing Enlighten</a> from future version of the Unity game engine. I mentioned multiple times in that story that the following statement made very little sense:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Due to Geomerics shutting down Enlighten as a product, Unity is required to remove Enlighten.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Geomerics hasn’t operated Enlighten since 2017 when it was <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-06-15-silicon-studio-acquires-enlighten-tech-from-geomerics">sold to Silicon Studio</a>. Since posting that story, we received the following comment from a representative at Silicon Studio:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/image.axd?picture=image_3435.png"><img width="904" height="173" title="image" alt="image" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/did-unity-lie-about-enlightens-removal.png" border="0"></a></p>
<p>There was additionally the following conversation on the Unity blog post:</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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