>Unity changes licensing rights
>Now charges devs per install after a certain number of installs
THIS MEANS YOU CAN NOW LITERALLY COST COMPANIES MONEY BY PIRATING THEIR GAMES
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
>Unity changes licensing rights. >Now charges devs per install after a certain number of installs
oooooooooooooh he's makin a list
it's like that greentext about pirating a game a million times to bankrupt a developer
>BY PIRATING
>installs
how new, OP?
it was over when they hired john ravioli
how would they track "unofficial" downloads/installs
through spyware, they're already doing it
by basic telemetry data, like what you agree to every single time you install any game within the past 15 years.
they track the machine ID
Unity games have had telemetry built in for years now. Even your pirated games phone home unless you've blocked them with a firewall. They collect things like system specs and what game you're playing.
They mostly use it internally, but devs can also pay to access analytics data from their games.
It wouldn't matter either way.
>pirate game 100000 times
>developer owes $20,000
Holy frick this is beautiful
>Pirate game 100000 times
>Get sent to jail 100000 times
Not in a single country in the world
Euros, Americans and Canadians are worth 10 times as much as a poo.
>THIS MEANS YOU CAN NOW LITERALLY COST COMPANIES MONEY BY PIRATING THEIR GAMES
No it doesn't becayse when you install a Unity Game you aren't installed Unity.
Wrong. They are literally charging for Runtime installs. This is not a seat charge on the Unity3D engine.
And it's fricking moronic too.
I know a lot of Jap devs who use Unity for their eroge stuff. Imagine once their lifetime installs run out, are they supposed to charge and spend time hunting down pirated copies on the web so it can't be distributed? good luck snatching those torrents away, not happening.
Essentially, what will happen is that small indie creators get fed up with Unity's extremely israeli plot and move to something else. At least if piracy isn't uncommon in regard to their title and they don't sell much.
Then again, if
holds up then I doubt it will ever be a real concern. The only games that make that much are mid-carder indies like Project Wingman and that runs on UE.
wrong post linked
>The Unity Runtime Fee will apply to games made with Unity Personal and Unity Plus that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime installs.
Won't affect Japanese eroge devs. This is more for the games that take off on social media.
It affects all people who use Unity Engine to make games, it's not based on social media usage or market or anything like that. If you made your game in Unity, you are applicable for the fee.
That's pretty damn israeli alright
what happens in the virtual machine that is cut off from the web connection and you run let's say a repack to inside it?
how possibly could anyone track that?
They can't. It's just software, not malware trying to escape the enclosure of a VM.
honestly I don't care about specifically troony devs but I'd like to limit of outside knowledge of who knows that I pirated a game for me,
I know my internet provider knows absolutely but they don't care fortunately
Rise up O3De chads!
>have to make at least $200,000 before this happens
i could honestly care less
Godotchads, our time is finally here...
Godot and Python are literally all you need for video game design as an indiedev, prove me wrong.
Where is Source 2 for public, Gabe?
>use Unity my friend said
>it's better than Unreal he said
Either use unreal or open source engine ez
This shit will kill mobile f2p games made on Unity for good
Lel, as if, mobile games will always make money
mobile gacha garbage can tank some of the costs
> Cheaper for major corporations.
Why of course it is.
So tired of the gaming industry, how do you wake up from a nightmare if you're not asleep ?
pray to your ASI overlords and hope they overthrow this shitshow
Invest in Godot. Now is the time.
timmy won it seems