So I've been doing some more digging into why they did this. Apparently the main reason (at least that they say publicly) is that the large majority of their revenue wasn't coming from the indie version. Sooo.... It appears that perhaps my initial doubts about them being able to generate much revenue from that market wasn't completely full of $hit after all. I don't remember which post that was in (back around when they first announced Unity here on iDG), but I believe one of the Unity guys wasn't on board with my "guesstimate" at the time. I'm glad that in the end they found some other way to make it happen though, because now that it's free and they found a solid revenue stream enough to make that happen, I pretty much don't have any choice but to expend some free time into learning the system.

Aha, found that thread I was talking about! http://www.idevgames.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9714

Heh, how funny, gatti put up that poll. I forgot about that. Hi Casey!