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	\|Description=In August 2022, The Machinery was abruptly shutdown and customers were requested to delete all copies of the game engine, following a change to EULA.		\|Description=In August 2022, The Machinery was abruptly shutdown and customers were requested to delete all copies of the game engine, following a change to EULA.
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			In August 2022, Our Machinery sent an email to their customers announcing that their commercial game engine, The Machinery, was being terminated. The email requested their customers to delete all copies of The Machinery source code and binaries, and promised that a refund would be issued.

	==Background==		==Background==
	{{Ph-I-B}}		The Machinery was a game engine developed by Our Machinery. It entered Open Beta in October 2020{{Cite web \|date=2020-10-29 \|title=The Machinery Game Engine Enters Open Beta \|url=https://gamefromscratch.com/the-machinery-game-engine-enters-open-beta/ \|access-date=2026-08-16}} and later started offering annual commercial licenses for small and large companies, with prices going as high as $900/user/year. These annual licenses offered source code access as a benefit.{{Cite web \|title=Which license is right for you? \|url=https://ourmachinery.com/pricing.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219231741/https://ourmachinery.com/pricing.html \|archive-date=2022-02-19}}

	==[Incident]==		==Termination==
	{{Ph-I-I}}		In August 2022, customers of The Machinery received the following email:{{Cite web \|date=2022-08-01 \|title=The Machinery Game Engine Appears to Have Shut Down \|url=https://gamefromscratch.com/the-machinery-game-engine-appears-to-have-shut-down/ \|access-date=2026-08-16}}{{Cite web \|date=2022-08-01 \|title=End of the Machinery Game Engine \|url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32300785 \|url-status= \|access-date=2026-08-16}} Hi Everybody,

	===[Company]'s response===		Thanks so much for supporting The Machinery.
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			Unfortunately, we’ve reached a point where it’s no longer possible for us to continue in the current direction. Per Section 14 of the End User License Agreement, the development of The Machinery will cease, all licenses are terminated as of 14 days after the date of this notice, and you are requested to delete your copies of The Machinery.

	==Lawsuit==		We really appreciated you being a part of the Our Machinery Community. We hope we have been helpful in some way to your development needs.
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			-Our MachineryA few days prior to the email being sent out, Our Machinery had updated Section 14 of their EULA to add the following paragraph which was not present before:See https://web.archive.org/web/20220529230958/https://ourmachinery.com/eula.html vs https://web.archive.org/web/20220811144736/https://ourmachinery.com/eula.html We reserve the right, at any time in our sole discretion, to terminate this EULA and any applicable Additional Terms, in whole or in part, without prior notice. Immediately following any election by us to terminate this EULA or any applicable Additional Terms, you agree that (a) any licenses, permissions or other rights granted to you shall cease to be effective, and (b) we are in no way responsible for the preserving, supporting or maintaining any User Content. You agree that we may inform you of any such termination by announcement to the last e-mail address you provided to us. Upon the termination of your license, you must immediately (a) cease all use of the Service and the Content, and (b) destroy any copies of the Service or Content in your possession, custody or control, including any related source code and/or binaries of the Service or the Content. Our Machinery also shut down their online blog and social media, never offering an explanation for the shutdown.

	==Consumer response==		==Consumer response==
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			Users of the game engine criticized the abrupt termination with only 14 days notice. Games are typically not portable across game engines, it requires a lot of work to port over a game to a different engine. Due to this, a game project would need to restart its development from scratch if its engine suddenly becomes no longer available.
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