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Nah dude, don't be so eager to jump on people's throats like this. They were being sarcastic about a difficult situation that they and many other indie developers might have to deal with, that in January 1st they might be sent a massive bill over a deal that they never agreed with.
If your conclusion here is Cult of the Lamb/Massive Monster/Devolver is being greedy rather than Unity, you are missing the point. Unity is the one actually making it so that the most sensible decision for many smaller developers barely making ends meet will be to delist before January 1st.
Sometimes people become so cynical that they go back around at losing perspective by always assuming the worst out of everything and everyone, that's not great.
Here we go back around to where I started with. They always been silly with their marketing. They also said they would sacrifice their players and they both have beef and flirted with Angry Birds. Nobody would take that seriously.
A quirky indie studio going "welp, better pack up and leave next year" at the Unity situation just seems par for the course. No reason to jump the gun unless they confirm that later.
I'm defending them because I think you are making too much of an issue out of it.
This, jumping on massive monster is definitely victim blaming. The real massive monster is unity