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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 1 year ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah... I can't see this being weaponed by the bad side of the consumers.

Game comes out, it does something stupid or just "woke" and pisses people off. They attack the dev by installing more copies. Company goes bankrupt. Dickhead gamers win.

[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

I got some clarifications from Unity regarding their plan to charge developers per game install (after clearing thresholds)

If a player deletes a game and re-installs it, that's 2 installs, 2 charges

Same if they install on 2 devices

Charity games/bundles exempted from fees

Regarding this being abused by bad actors:

Unity says it will use fraud detection tools and allow developers to report possible instances of fraud to a compliance team

- @stephentotilo

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

So once a game stops selling it had better hope its player base dries up and stops reinstalling it? The way that is phrased makes it sound like you could net lose money over the long term if sales decline and people keep reinstalling it

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