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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.

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[–] 68 points 3 years ago (8 children)

They expect Game Pass titles to have their bill footed by Microsoft.

There's kicking the nest, and then there's kicking the fucking queen bee.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Honestly the most credible theory I can come up with for why Unity is doing this is that it's an attempt to force MS to acquire them to stop the effect this BS will have on gamepass and C#

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thats still a really stupid plan. If they want to be bought off you'd assume they'd want to sell out at the best possible price. This measure is going to make their valuation sink so hard that they could be bought out for peanuts.

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