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Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)
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Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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[–] Strider3200@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is unity to determine a company’s revenue on a game if not self reported by a company?

[–] sibannac@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They guess.

We leverage our own proprietary data model and will provide estimates of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project – this estimate will cover an invoice for all platforms.

From their FAQ.

[–] Browning@lemmings.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So... They bill you based on a guess?

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Not just any guess...a proprietary guess. So extra smokescreen and mirrors

[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Very legal, very cool.

[–] Strider3200@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the clear response. 👍🏻

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Telemetry built in the proprietary software, just like any other propietary software really.