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Game developers furious as Unity Engine announces new fees(archive.ph)

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Gotta get that extra surplus value somehow

Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/sep/12/unity-engine-fees-backlash-response

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Would be nice if more people started using Godot because of this.

It’s not clear to me from the article but is Unity going to charge their old customers retroactively under this new landlord-type scheme? Because that sounds illegal.

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Yeah, that’s my understanding. The article mentions how this is going to especially pose a problem with services like GamePass

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