[Unity planning on charging developers *by individual installation* in the near future.]

5 hours ago, 4sheetzngeegles said:

So here is a question.
If say I for instance have 7 days installed in my steam install default directory.
And have an alternative hard drive with all, of the prior alphas on it. I, being a
a compulsive technology hoarder of sorts, copy the version that I am going to play
to the default directory and delete the other. No worries, I make copies once the

game is verified, so no loss.
Does that mean that i still am considered to have one installation?

 

The reason I ask and why i archive the way i do is because, If you are doing an install

and it is corrupted from steam download or a bad sector. if you have to re-download

it then is that considered two installs?

 

 

 

Unity has backed off a bit and now claims they will magically somehow figure out what is a reinstall versus what is a new install, but anyone with any technical knowledge knows they can't guarantee that, ESPECIALLY while also not tracking individual users as they claim they will not.

 

Further, no matter what magic they say they're going to implement with this, someone will find a way to spoof installs and bomb gamedevs with install charges.

[Unity planning on charging developers *by individual installation* in the near future.]

2 hours ago, Maharin said:

That's been updated several times already and I suspect there will need to be a whole lot more clarification before all is said and done.

 

And, honestly, I hope Unity loses big on this one.

 

I think they figure that as long as they manage to get the really big customers (like certain gacha games I won't name) to go along with it they'll make so much money it won't matter if every small dev drops them and/or goes bankrupt.

[Unity planning on charging developers *by individual installation* in the near future.]

8 minutes ago, FramFramson said:

Older games like 7D are stuck with Unity, but at the same time they're sort of in the long tail of sales.

 

 

 

Or go bankrupt from a few disgruntled users setting up continuous re-installs.

[Unity planning on charging developers *by individual installation* in the near future.]

Seems to be real, making it into sources like RPS and The Guardian.

 

How is TFP going to deal with this?

 

 

[The curious tale of the cursed Flying Dutchman motorcyle...]

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