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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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[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 year ago

Welp, looks like it's time to abandon Unity entirely.

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

We will truly live in a world where 95% of games are based on Unreal Engine, 4% on Godot or GameMaker Studio, and 1% custom engines.

Which is such a shame... When Unreal does something bad, like absolutely messing up shader compilation, pretty much all games start suffering with this for years. And there are some amazing engines out there... Resident Evil's scales surprisingly well and looks way better than it has any right to.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Because Capcom's in-house game engine is really scalable.

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