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derpysquirtle64 said:

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.

Not sure why you guys bring Microsoft in here. From what I read, Microsoft doesn’t have to pay for anything. Developer will. It’s just now a question whether Microsoft’s upfront fee to add the game to GamePass will be enough to get the game into the service or not?

From here:

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/13/unity-runtime-fee-policy-marc-whitten

• 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.