"The primary complaint is that these changes would be particularly harmful to solo, indie, marginalized, and mobile developers."
The tl;dr ^ ^
I think Godot and Unreal are popping champagne at the moment.
What on earth is Unity thinking?
This screams of economic consultants looking at the financial potential via the books, with no understanding of the sector. It probably looks great on paper.
Yeah, that seems about right...or they've hired one too many MBAs and the inmates have taken over the asylum.
Either way they are in for a really bad time.
Game development is hard enough, but this will allow malicious users to kind of ddos a game and make the developer pay for it.
From everything I've read the fee isn't linked to revenue, but the number of downloads in a given 12 month period.
Unity is going to have to backtrack, but talk about losing trust, if I were a game dev I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot poll after this.
This is not a good look, at all. Unity seemingly is shooting themselves in the foot.
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