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Wow that is such a bad idea... I... I'm honestly speechless. Who thought if that? I mean...

Man I was just getting into game development and learning Unity.

I guess it's time to pivot into Unreal or Godot or something.

Anybody have recommendations?

That's pretty awesome of them to do such a great Godot advertisement

So... If the Unity's secret spyware and algorithm suddenly decides to count an update as a new installation, you suddenly get slapped with a huge bill. Especially if you release multiple small patches and your whole player base is counted multiple times.

So this will apply to games that have already been distributed on stores as well? How the fuck is such a change in the terms even legal?

I guess this will mostly impact F2P mobile devs since they will lose most money from installs. The good news is that Godot is more than capable for those types of games.

Well this is bullshit but is there anything I as a non-developer can do about it?

Switch to Godot or FTEQW, screw Unity.

I can't decide if they'll get away with this or if they're committing corporate suicide.

Wanna bet he secretly has a bunch of Epic Games stock?

Yeah, this will insure I never use Unity. But at least they can collect from their existing games.

Starting January 1, a Unity Runtime Fee will be charged to any game that has passed a revenue threshold in the past year and a lifetime install count.

Still shitty, but at least the fee only applies if you’ve already hit the revenue threshold. Maybe this is an ill-conceived effort to raise the floor on game prices (or price out low-cost ones)? A $60 game can afford a 20-cent extra fee a few dozen times. A 99-cent game is a non-starter though.