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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)

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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.

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[–] grinde@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why bother actually installing? Just use a packet sniffer to find the data being sent to Unity and replay it in a loop. You could probably hit somewhere in the range of 100k-1M "installs" per minute.