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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] superduperenigma 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or a rival developer, troll, corporation, etc just runs a script to uninstall/reinstall someone else's game over and over and over again costing them an insane amount of money.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why bother actually installing? Just use a packet sniffer to find the data being sent to Unity and replay it in a loop. You could probably hit somewhere in the range of 100k-1M "installs" per minute.