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Creators of Slay the Spire will migrate their next game to a new engine if Unity doesn't completely revert their changes (nitter.net)
submitted 2 years ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] iso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What happened?

[–] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TL;DR of the situation is that Unity released a statement 2 days ago saying they want successful developers to pay up to 20 cents every time a user installs a Unity game starting from Jan 1 2024, even if your game was already released. This caused a huge ruckus in the game dev community and many developers want to switch away from Unity.

[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Note that it's "per install" (they clarified that reinstalling on the same device only counts as one install), not per unit sold. And Unity will also track pirated copies, so the devs would still have to pay the fee even if they didn't sell it to you.

[–] Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the tracking of pirated copies is even more fucked up. is that their way of imposing that "piracy = stealing"?

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s because they literally don’t know how to differentiate a download from legit and illegitimate. They’re going to track every time their bundler is downloaded and bill the developer for it, that would include pirated copies and legit copies alike.