This change sounds like it's going to cause problems for some developers. As you guys know some developers have good stances, and their good stances lead to rage amongst 'Gamers'; the way Unity's change works is that per install developers pay $0.20, not per sold product, per install; even a re-install will incur that cost. What's to stop the same kinds of chuds who review bomb movies with tons of fake accounts from simply re-installing a game from such a developer a mass amount of times?

As one video put it, a game that costs almost a dollar (99 cents) loses 30% to steam, now $0.20 to Unity, and if they have a publisher then possibly a further 30% to them too. Couple that with chuds intentionally trying to hurt indie developers and it sounds like developers could end up paying for their games rather than receiving anything from it.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    I'm really worried about which games in my wishlist will be removed because of this; I've got 650+ games in the list, seeing that number mysteriously go down will not be fun 💀

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yep, and it seems like piracy would actually hurt the devs since Unity wants to go after all installs. How fucked