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Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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…

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[–] Buddahriffic 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That still wouldn't prevent malicious driving up of the install count. You wouldn't even need to actually install it, you could just figure out how they communicate a new install and then either block it if you want to say "fuck unity" or send fake ones to say "fuck this dev using unity".

And how will it work for devs that think they can handle it but then change their minds and drop unity but some older versions of their installers are still out there?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

All the debate about the hypothetical hostile uses of the scheme are... more valid than I'd like, given that it's clear they hadn't thought about any of them, but it's missing the forest for the trees.

The forest is that even if this worked as intended it'd be a dealbreaker. That's the forest.