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The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it is not - those businesses ARE the users. Unless by user you mean consumers

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My real point is that one of these userbases has lawyers and are highly risk-averse.

Pedantically though, yes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unity games include Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Pokémon GO, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and Marvel Snap.

I doubt The Pokémon Company, MiHoYo and Marvel/Disney will just let Unity shove this decision at them, especially when some of these are have tens of millions of players and many more downloads per player.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Add Hearthstone and Legends of Runeterra to that list as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

MiHoYo's games are free-to-play on mobile platfroms, right? If they'll going to get charged 20c per install, they'll going to get royally fucked because most of free-to-play users aren't buying anything. IMO that's a huge incentive to switch ASAP, unless they have special deal with unity and not affected by this new pricing scheme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say MiHoYo would be fucked because they are making bank. But they will definitely get a massive bill on top of however much they already paid Depending on whether Unity counts updates as additional downloads, that's even more money. It might be enough to make them fight it. This whole change in monetization is probably aimed at mobile games in general