NEW - I got a major update from Unity about their new fees
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) September 13, 2023
- Unity "regrouped" and now says ONLY the initial installation of a game triggers a fee
- Demos mostly won't trigger fees
- Devs not on the hook for Game Pass
More here:https://t.co/GCKjEeFtYR
Still trash, "only" the initial installation triggers a fee, Lul. Demos "mostly" won't trigger fees, Lmao.
"As for Game Pass and other subscription services, Whitten said that developers like Aggro Crab would not be on the hook, as the fees are charged to distributors, which in the Game Pass example would be Microsoft."
Microsoft is going to fucking hate this.
We leverage our own proprietary data model, so you can appreciate that we won’t go into a lot of detail, but we believe it gives an accurate determination of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project.
— Unity (@unity) September 12, 2023
Good luck, I imagine Microsoft has their lawyers on standby for when Unity uses their guesswork model to determine how many downloads have been made. Unity not only is making it up on the spot for how many downloads have been made, they also expect us to believe they know whether a download is a first time download or not? As if.
Either Microsoft and Sony will fight against this, or Game Pass and PS+ fees will go up and the customers will suffer as a result of Unity's stupidity, or Microsoft and Sony will avoid Unity titles being included in their services, or Unity developers will be paid worse to be included in these services. I hope Microsoft and Sony both stand up for developers and tell Unity to get fucked.
