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Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report (www.eurogamer.net)

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A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation.

MobileGamer sources say Unity has already offered some studios a 100% fee waiver - if they switch over to Unity's own LevelPlay ad platform.

The report quotes industry consultants that say this move is an "attempt to destroy" Unity's main competitior in this field: AppLovin.

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[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago

The conspiracy theorist in me says Unity planned this whole thing out to get less resistance on this thing they actually wanted to roll out; announce a super shit change that will intentionally outrage everybody, then say “ok, we won’t do it if you agree to use this other shitty model instead”.

Anyways, big shoutout to Godot for existing as an open-source alternative.

[-] drphungky@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

That's not a conspiracy theory that's like entry level MBA stuff.

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