Can they tell the differences between installs or can’t they? Either way, they’re definitely lying to their users.

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    This whole thing is absurd and overcomplicated - they could have just copied Unreal and slightly undercut them.

    It isn’t too complicated, but for example, a game which made $2 million in gross revenue would owe Epic Games $50,000, because it would pay 5 percent of $1 million, keeping the first million entirely—minus whatever other fees are owed, such as Steam’s cut.

    There should also absolutely have been a grandfather clause for games already released.

    I get Unity needs to make money. They’ve never been profitable. But they’ve seriously overcomplicated the whole thing and gotten people angry at them.

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      I’m not even sure this is a price increase. It probably is, but I think a lot of people will pay less.

      They are just reserving the right to bankrupt you, at random, without any previous warning, because they want. There’s no good reasoning anywhere.

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        I agree. I think a price increase can totally make sense. Shit’s expensive nowadays, we get it.

        They seem to want to create a new revenue stream from games published on Unity retroactively.