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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4975490

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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[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The more I read about it the more fucked up it gets.

Premium subscriptions don't include the new fee.
Their system to detect installs is unknown, as are their anti-tamper measures.
All they said about those is that they'll cannibalize code from their ad-system.

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

they'll cannibalize code from their ad-systems

Imagine if their phone home system for tracking installs could be defeated by something as simple as Pihole DNS Ad block.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Haha nice but unlikely. The ad stuff was only brought up in the context of fraud detection