Ryuu96 said:
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.
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. |
I am not even sure that Unity can actually charge MS or Sony a fee for every download of a game. Unless MS signed some type of agreement with Unity to accept such terms, its does not seem even remotely plausible that MS or Sony would be on the hook for license change. If by any chance Sony and MS are on the hook there probably be 2 scenarios that will happen. One, they will remove those games from the service and second they will tell Unity to go fish and meet us in court. I doubt they will take the third option and just pay whatever Unity feels they are going to charge for a distributor of a game just because they decided to change their license.
A move like this seems very suspect on the level where the company must be asking to be sold or looking for a cash out before going under. Either way, I do not see this going very well for Unity in the future.
