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[–] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's see how this pans out over the week, still heaps of opportunities for unity to fuck this up further

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could Unity possibly fuck up any worse than they already have?

[–] Chailles@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

An uninstallation fee for users to prevent them from defrauding devs by repeatedly reinstalling.

[–] Tamo@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delete this before the EA CEO sees it please.

[–] PlushySD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't worry I'm pretty sure he and Adobe CEO have been comparing notes

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Charge 1 cent for every day the app remains unused if installed, 2 cents for every day after it was uninstalled

And that is when computer usage itself will seriously go downhill. Imagine holding customers captive in such a way.

I can totally see them teaming up with Microsoft to make that happen though.