Workaround for Unity Personal License Manual Activation Not Supported

You decided to add a CI/CD pipeline to your Unity Project using GameCI. You are all pumped up and ready to start.

What's the 1st step? Activating Unity! No biggie, right?

Well, hold on a sec. You generate the alf file after creating the github action. You carry on with the list and head to https://license.unity3d.com/manual, all set to create that ulf file.

Plot Twist

But hold your horses because here comes the twist.

Unity dropped a bombshell: "Unity no longer supports manual activation of Personal licenses."

Manual activation of Personal licenses? Nope, not happening anymore. Cue the dramatic music. 🎵

But we are not giving up that easily. We disregard the message and upload the alf file.

Something's fishy. The option to generate an ulf for a personal license? Poof, it's vanished. Instead, it asks us to type in a serial number.

Time for a bit of trickery

Right-click and inspect the serial number box

Now, hunt down the <div class="option option-personal clear" style="display: none;"> section

Guess what? We're deleting that pesky "display: none;".

Boom! Like magic, the Unity Personal Edition option reappears. 🎉

Hopefully, before this hack stops working, GameCI will have an official workaround :)

Shoutout

And here's a shoutout to realpepe, who cracked the code and shared the wisdom on Discord. Because in the world of tech, teamwork makes the magic happen.