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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

In addition, the work is never fully lost.

If unity goes to shit, welp, cannot use any of unity's code at all. Years and years of engine development wasted.

If some FOSS software goes to shit? That code is still there. Just take it and unshittify it. Little to no work wasted.