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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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[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not downloads. Installs. They also count re installs. So if you. Install a game, play it, remove it, then install again later that is an additional charge to the dev.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How does that even work if say I buy a game at $10 and then I uninstall and install 51 times?

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You’ve entered into a brand new era of trolling game developers by directing costing them for the fun of it.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I can even automate it for pennies.

Spin up 100 digital ocean droplets with Terra form. Install steam, the game, open the game, let it crash. Kill the droplet and do it again.

For every $0.70 I spend, I could get ~2000 installs. Per hour. Costing some dev up to $400/h

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They don't count reinstalls.

You can tell because they totally promise and definitely won't let you see how their system works because it's "proprietary".

[–] cuzit@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

That’s the cool part, it doesn’t.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So.. if your game becomes the most pirated game in history, you're on the hook for millions off zero income.

Way to go Unity..

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They carved out an exception for pirated copies

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 2 years ago

And they can tell.. how exactly?