Apparently this isn’t standard anymore, and I can see how developers don’t like it, but an antitrust lawsuit over this just seems poorly justified. For whoever doesn’t want to sell on Steam under their conditions, there is Epic, GOG, Humble and ItchIO. Maybe those don’t sell as well, but that’s the choice the company is making.

I don’t think being the largest store by itself is grounds for this sort of legal action. Especially not when they became the biggest store simply by providing good services for a good price, rather than any sort of restrictions at companies publishing in it.

It shows that companies are regarded above customers when every console is a closed ecosystem with a single store, no sideloading support, but nobody challenges that.

They did release Receiver 2 a couple years ago

Is anyone believing they would not have layoffs anyway? They are likely just trying to pin their cost-cutting plans on game devs who protested against their ridiculous scheme. Comes to mind that the money their clients were already paying is the money that would have paid for those employees’ wages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

We don’t know how they are measuring it. If it’s baked into the engine and not removed by cracking groups, it just might cost more for the devs.

Indies are the ones who deserve to die the least.

I know and thank goodness for that… but there will be projects that simply won’t be able to afford to move to entirely different engines. It’s a lot of work that might have to be redone.

This might kill entire indie projects.

How many reinstalls? Because I have games I have bought 4 PCs/laptops ago, not counting some few more when I installed them in family members’ computers to play with them. What about OS updates? Windows keeps insisting to move to 11.

Frankly, this doesn’t sound reasonable at all. It’s not even like Unity is doing any of the hosting to justify squeezing devs like this.

edit: Now it has been confirmed it’s not measured on an unique hardware basis, any reinstall counts. It’s just madness.

Charging “per install” as opposed to “per sale” will be goddamn awful. At best it might lead to DRM where you’ll have a limited number of installs before you lose the game you bought.

Tech companies badly need to get their shit kicked in to stop with this “I have the right to change the terms unilaterally anytime”

Hopefully! Not even exclusive games are free from bad performance, I got Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity to play co-op. and the resolution and framerate get abysmal.