Masakuni

Masakuni

@Masakuni

The little blue dragon!

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(34/M) Little blue dragon whelp, wearer of many hats, enjoyer of things including but not limited to video games, goth music, sports, art, adorable things, cartoons and anime and other shows, etc.

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Masakuni
@Masakuni
techokami
@techokami
LotteMakesStuff
@LotteMakesStuff

Are YOU a game developer that uses Unity? Congrats they just changed their business relationship with you and there’s nothing you can do!

Effective January 1, 2024, we will introduce a new Unity Runtime Fee that’s based on game installs. We will also add cloud-based asset storage, Unity DevOps tools, and AI at runtime at no extra cost to Unity subscription plans this November.

It’s gone from having INCREDIBLY simple just pay for a yearly software licence to that, plus a very complicated sliding scale payment based on installs. Installs. Not sales or revenue but installs.

Just wait till next year when some game developer accidentally annoys their community with a “bad update” or something and their haters mass install, run delete thousands of times to rack up a massive invoice. This is so stupid. I’m done

xkeeper
@xkeeper

i would not be surprised in the least if there comes into existence a tool that simply hits unity.com/install-tracker?gameid=420691 over and over without having to go through the whole trouble of installing and uninstalling.

what i'm saying is it's time to bring back distributed denial-of-service attacks.

1: this is not how it works. this is an example. thank's.

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neral
@neral

i'm glad i decided to go with godot for the project i've made zero actual progress on but

holy shit reading the FAQ is making it look worse with every item i open. normally a FAQ is supposed to like. kind of defuse the bad change you're making and pretend it's not a big deal. come up with fake questions nobody had that make you look nice and stuff. that kinda thing

they couldn't even do that this time. "yeah an install is uh, an install i guess??? what you wanted to know about weird edge cases?" "maybe you can get a discount if you let us antitrust you into using our other very expensive paid services!!! maybe also not though" "here's an ad for a totally unrelated service we snuck into the faq" "yes it applies to games already released" "almost forgot to tell you about our AI grift" "oh yeah we're also getting rid of the only pricing tier indies ever use"

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internet-janitor
@internet-janitor

"According to our calculations you owe us one Gorillion dollars and a kidney. No, you can't see our calculations; they're very high-tech trade secrets. On an unrelated note, we're offering our customers a sweet deal on ad-supported kidneys that excrete calcified masses if you don't scream I LOVE MTN DEW AND DORITOS every three hours."

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neral
@neral

i just realized. they are going to make you pay for pirated copies of a video game. it's worded entirely in such a way that they can do that. i guess the piracy scene kind of hates stuff that phones home so they might patch it out, but who knows. and even if they patch it unity might just make up a number anyway. i mean, they preemptively admitted they just might right there.

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LotteMakesStuff
@LotteMakesStuff

I've described this elsewhere, but yeah I can see it being an attack vector too. Is your game too woke? Dont like a nerf to your favorite class? are you just an internet weirdo? Don't bother brigading a games steam reviews anymore, way too much like hard work! Just install the game! Then uninstall the game! Then do it again! again! Loop doing that for a few days to rack up a big bill to punish the evil game developer. nice. Hope blizzard never nerfs a card in Hearthstone ever again you know lol

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