Unity is going to charge for installations of games using their engine

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Unity is supposedly having something in place to prevent piracy from causing issues. Also, it seems they've rethought their plans a bit, and now Game Pass should never and demos should usually not count as installs. It's still terrible though. The worst part is that this applies retroactively and without a transition period. This would be bad enough if it only applied to new releases starting, say, in 2025 or 2026, let alone now and retroactively. This is practically abusing publishers/developers that have already committed to using the engine, since they might not really have any time to react to this.