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regallibellbright · 1 year

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It’s telling, in a “oh you REALLY didn’t think this one through did you” way, that one of Unity’s walkbacks/clarifications was “Oh no, DEVELOPERS won’t be on the hook for Gamepass/Playstation Plus installations, those fees will go to the distributors!”

Meaning, Microsoft and Sony.

For fees that will be applying retroactively.

If you throw a rock at Gamepass’s biggest indie titles you will probably hit one made in Unity.

And the point at which they go into effect - $200,000 in revenue, 200,000 installs - is COMICALLY low compared to Gamepass numbers.

Like, this is going to easily be in the realm of tens of millions of dollars for Microsoft, minimum. It’s fairly likely to be enough money they actually give a shit.

For fees that will be applying retroactively.

I wish them fucking luck is what I’m getting at they’re gonna fucking need it.

#unity clusterfuck #this is before we get into hoyoverse’s titles this is before we get into NINTENDO’S titles #(because yeah Fire Emblem Engage and BDSP were both made in Unity)#(much less the mobile games)#this is before we get into the non-juggernaut studios with juggernaut titles #and the true juggernaut studios can probably pay the royalties but it’s enough money they may /actually give a shit/.#and they have both lawyers and the money to handle a massive expensive time-consuming lawsuit #it’s gonna absolutely fucking suck for the indie devs in the meantime but like. HOO BOY.#this is also before we get into that proprietary install tracker and its lack of transparency and how it might impact things #like say. the GDPR.#just a total clusterfuck on every conceivable level #they walked back a ‘delete and reinstall count as two separate installs’ bit that they’d confirmed to STEPHEN TOTILO #(for those not in the know: generally considered the most credible and Actually Journalisty Games Journalist.)#and like seriously how the FUCK is this going to recognize the difference between a charity bundle install or a piracy install #compared to a normal one?#there are SO MANY THINGS in that announcement that just. where do you fucking start.

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