Comment on Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

• FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How does that even work if say I buy a game at $10 and then I uninstall and install 51 times?

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  • kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ve entered into a brand new era of trolling game developers by directing costing them for the fun of it.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can even automate it for pennies.

      Spin up 100 digital ocean droplets with Terra form. Install steam, the game, open the game, let it crash. Kill the droplet and do it again.

      For every $0.70 I spend, I could get ~2000 installs. Per hour. Costing some dev up to $400/h

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t count reinstalls.

    You can tell people they totally promise and definitely won’t let you see how their system works because it’s “proprietary”.

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• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So… if your game becomes the most pirated game in history, you’re on the hook for millions of zero income.

  Way to go Unity…

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  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They carved out an exception for pirated copies

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    • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And they can tell… how exactly?

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I’ve read this right, they don’t count re-installs on the same hardware, so just “I don’t want to play this anymore” uninstall -later- “I want to play this again” reinstall won’t count as two installs. But reinstalls of the same license on different hardware does, so “I just bought a game! Let’s play it on my aging gaming PC” installs I just bought a new gaming PC, let’s see what that game looks like on high graphics settings installs again does count as two installs and the studio will…bewilderingly…be charged twice for that one sale.

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