Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
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No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.

No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.

morgan423
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481Y

Far too little, far too late. Even if this was the most glowing revision ever (it isn’t, but even if it was), the trust is gone.

DreamySweet
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I know I won’t be using it. There is no guarantee that they won’t do something similar in the future.

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41Y

They can just creep up the fee bit by bit and they can say, hey it’s not as bad as that runtime fee we announced in 2023

DreamySweet
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Not just that but what other new fee will they create and force on developers out of nowhere?

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101Y

And therein lies the rub.

They’ve proven they can’t be trusted. The people who devised and attempted to enact this plan - the exec team - have not gone anywhere, and they aren’t going to. They have shown the industry who they are, and they clearly don’t give a shit about business ethics or even legality (the AppLovin shit smells an awful fucking lot like anticompetitive market interference). They will definitely try something similar in the future.

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