[zzixp]

I'm pretty floored by Unity's decision. Even after their partial walkback (saying devs will only be charged for the first game install, not EVERY game install) it's still a crazy way to monetize instead of profit sharing.

Unity appeals way more to hobbyist devs getting into game dev, and from what I've seen has significantly more resources and tutorials online than Unreal. Hopefully we see the same resources start to be published en-masse for Godot.

[outworlder]

> devs will only be charged for the first game install, not EVERY game install)

I wonder how they will figure that out. It is not trivial. And if they don't disclose how they are doing it, it has a large potential for abuse.

[hnlmorg]

I suspect the potential for abuse is the reason they’ve walked back. The problem is that data will be private and the gatekeepers are the ones who stand to profit. So you’ll have another situation like those ad companies who underplay bot impressions

[wlesieutre]

Unity merged with a "your flash player is out of date" adware company, I'm sure device identification is nothing new to them

[itiro]

Nothing changes until January 1, 2024.

Would not surprise me if it was a heavy handed management decision dumped on engineers laps last minute, and is barely implemented at this point.

[KaoruAoiShiho]

The obvious way is hardware ID, which can work okay for 80% of cases.

[giancarlostoro]

I've been telling people Godot is better and requires zero loyalties. I'm hoping this makes Godot explode with the attention it deserves.

[bathtub365]

What’s better about it? It seems to ship to fewer platforms and requires you to learn a language that isn’t used anywhere else.

[happytoexplain]

>charged for the first game install, not EVERY game install

While still terrible, is this an enormous walkback or was it always going to work this way and their initial communication was enormously incompetent?

[readyplayernull]

They got creative and should have provided a calculator for that fee scheme. Even so they can't really measure installs per user without deep data gathering which could be illegal.