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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)

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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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[–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait an indie developer to go bankrupt because the super secret algorithm counted updates as new installations and the developer gets billed multiple times for their whole player base.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or a rival developer, troll, corporation, etc just runs a script to uninstall/reinstall someone else's game over and over and over again costing them an insane amount of money.

[–] grinde@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why bother actually installing? Just use a packet sniffer to find the data being sent to Unity and replay it in a loop. You could probably hit somewhere in the range of 100k-1M "installs" per minute.