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Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Very legal, very cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the clear response. 👍🏻