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Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry. (arstechnica.com)

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Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.::Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Well that makes all the sense in the world now. Man fuck EA even when it's not EA lol

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

He was kicked out of EA. Even EA isn't this bad lol. Seriously, while EA has had some controversies with nickle and diming, have they ever retroactively started making things cost money?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

EA realised that it would be illegal and would get them sued. This guy either didn't ask the lawyers, or didn't listen to the lawyers.

A contract, is a contract, is a contract. You can't change it halfway through without getting confirmation from all parties, and obviously they haven't got that

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