Pro liscence

Hi im thinkin about buying unity 5 pro, but what happens if unity someday shutdown ? Will i still always have my pro version ? And if that happen and i Get a new computer i must talk with support team to Move liscense too new computer ?

 

Yes, as long as you didn't get a subscription.

No, you can do that yourself. (Although if the company disappeared, I doubt it would work since it needs to talk to their server. Not something to be concerned about any time soon, I would think.)

--Eric

 

Thanks so if the server shutdown , project goes back too free version ? And free version dont need too connect too server so it can in theory last forever ?

 

Free version still has to be activated, so, if in some hypothetical future Unity got bought by space aliens, and they decided to irritate human game developers by shutting down the Unity license servers, then yes, you'll not be able to make Unity run on a new machine.

 

I'm not sure we can take that kind of risk, Graham.

 

I m sure its a small chance that will happen anytime soon, but i hope if it shutdown sometime they make a solution for the users. Atleast the pro users. And i think this is Nice too know if You are planning too work on a huge project over time. Imagin working 2 years on a project and suddently You must cancel it.

 

Indeed. Speculating on what would happen if Unity goes out of business is probably futile (because they're incredibly secure at this point) and wildly uncertain. However, based on my experience with the company, I have little doubt that in that scenario they would release one final version that doesn't authenticate itself with the DRM server, and could be used and activated when the authentication server dies. Possibly even just open-source the engine.

 

I dunno, those space aliens are starting to really worry me. I mean, why would an official Unity employee start talking about space aliens unless THEY KNOW SOMETHING WE DON'T???????

--Eric