cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4975490
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off
Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.
The more I read about it the more fucked up it gets.
Premium subscriptions don’t include the new fee.
Their system to detect installs is unknown, as are their anti-tamper measures.
All they said about those is that they’ll cannibalize code from their ad-system.
Imagine if their phone home system for tracking installs could be defeated by something as simple as Pihole DNS Ad block.
Haha nice but unlikely. The ad stuff was only brought up in the context of fraud detection