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Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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[–] Strider3200 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is unity to determine a company’s revenue on a game if not self reported by a company?

[–] sibannac 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They guess.

We leverage our own proprietary data model and will provide estimates of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project – this estimate will cover an invoice for all platforms.

From their FAQ.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So... They bill you based on a guess?

[–] ZapBeebz_ 18 points 1 year ago

Not just any guess...a proprietary guess. So extra smokescreen and mirrors

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Very legal, very cool.

[–] Strider3200 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the clear response. 👍🏻

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Telemetry built in the proprietary software, just like any other propietary software really.