but does this mean one machine installing a thousand times costs money? does this mean currently released unity games have to pay as well? is there any clause for what happens if the installs are done as a malicious campaign, or does this just give unity a blank check to bankrupt any developer they want if they set up a rack of machines doing malicious uninstalls and installs?
cult of the lamb announced they are deleting their game entirely on january 1st 2024 in response to the unity fees, and that if you want this game you should buy it now
statements from innersloth (developers of among us) and aggro crab (developers of going under)
“but does this mean one machine installing a thousand times costs money?” sure does!
“does this mean currently released unity games have to pay as well?” yes! all your favorite currently released unity games will start owing unity hundreds of thousands of dollars starting 2024!
“is there any clause for what happens if the installs are done as a malicious campaign or does this just give unity a blank check to bankrupt any developer they want if they set up a rack of machines doing malicious uninstalls and installs?”
they claim they have a fraud detection program, and are going to work on finding a way to detect these sorts of things, but this is all on unitys end in their little black box
doing the math, this does essentially mean, if you make a free mobile game with a little bit of monetization on the free version of unity and its a hit success, with 3 million downloads and make 200k and one cent, you now owe unity 400k
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