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This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)

Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they're switching engines on social media.

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://www.ign.com/articles/why-unitys-new-install-fees-are-spurring-massive-backlash-among-game-developers

They said they have a fraud detection system for their ads business and will use that as a starting point.

I don’t see how they are going to be able to move forward with this change.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Terrible ideas here

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The obvious rebuttal to that is that it is in the financial interest not to detect false installs because the developer will owe them money for those. Why would ANYONE trust their word on this?

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That is a great point. I bet they are going to walk this back on games that have been released already. Hopefully, devs will just move to an opensource game engine or make their own.