stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · 10 months agoUnity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installswww.eurogamer.netexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1239arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
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Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…
minus-squaretrustnoone@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agoLol get this, I don’t know if I heard right, but the install count was based on their own telemetry added to the game. SO if someone pirated your game, it could still count as an install.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·10 months agoYep. Unity gets to decide how much you owe them. And there’s no way you can verify that they’re telling the truth.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoIt would be a shitty crack if it allowed a pirated game to still phone home during/after install.
minus-squareanlumo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoIt’s not phoning home to the developer, but Unity.
Lol get this, I don’t know if I heard right, but the install count was based on their own telemetry added to the game. SO if someone pirated your game, it could still count as an install.
Yep. Unity gets to decide how much you owe them. And there’s no way you can verify that they’re telling the truth.
It would be a shitty crack if it allowed a pirated game to still phone home during/after install.
It’s not phoning home to the developer, but Unity.