| shikamaru317 said: Yeah, I imagine Xbox won't be happy about that Unity thing. Assuming that Xbox will be charged for Unity games already on Gamepass, they could lose quite alot of money on the probably 100+ Unity using games they already have on Gamepass, losing extra money on deals that were supposed to be a one-time payment to the devs in most case. I suspect Xbox will be making alot less indie deals for Gamepass moving forward since most indies use Unity, we'll likely see them shift focus and aim for more 3rd party AA and AAA games moving forward. |
I see a number of scenarios, some not good for Unity, some bad for developers, some bad for consumers.
- Microsoft tells them to piss off and moves their lawyers against Unity, especially since they are using a "proprietary data model" to estimate the downloads and how bullshit it is to say Microsoft owes Unity for every single Unity developer, even for games and developers they don't even own.
- Microsoft accepts it but passes the costs onto consumers, Game Pass increases in price.
- Microsoft accepts it but starts either accepting less Unity titles on Game Pass or gives Unity developers worse deals.
- Microsoft straight removes all Unity titles from Game Pass.
This also applies to Sony, and Nintendo. Unity has potentially managed to piss off developers, publishers and platform holders all at the same time. This is going to be interesting to watch. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo better not take it, they can easily tell Unity to piss off and what is Unity going to do about it? Lol. Unity can go kick rocks.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 12 September 2023
