Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs - eviltoast

Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s not always the case. GOG games have no serial, the installer is the same for everybody. Charging “by install” is quite impossible of they really mean that a single user would not create two charges.

    Also, games will need to ping unity servers? Are they already doing that…? This all gets weirder the more you think about it

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      1 year ago

      No no, they have proprietary methods of aggregating install data so they will know.