videogames is one word

I'm the lead developer for Gloomwood. It will be the last game I make with Unity if these changes go through. Several other developers at New Blood Interactive, including my co-developer David Szymanski (DUSK, Iron Lung), also plan to follow suit. Even if you all backtracked these changes, this severe breach of trust has made any working relationship a risk to continue.

An install fee is an absurd and horribly abusable system. I do not buy for one moment that the fraud tools will catch bad actors. Said tools are a blackbox and Unity, who has a financial incentive to over-report the numbers now, are the only ones who can calculate the true "legitimate" install numbers using a process we don't have access to. The fact that we have to report said fraud to a compliance team is an additional workload on teams already trying to focus on shipping games to meet deadlines.

Go back to the drawing board if you ever hope to salvage whoever is left in the independent development scene that isn't already too embarrassed to associate with you.