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Jesus dude chill it. Somehow hating Unity is popular here, and don't get me wrong I am also here because I hated the corporate asshole named spez, but this move Unity wants to make isn't super unreasonable. They want to charge proportionally to the amount of usage. If they'd done this right out of the gate, nobody would have thought that is unreasonable. Unity is a great engine, they should be able to charge for it.
That's ridiculous. There's no technical way they can accurately detect repeat installs on the same device, or pirated copies. Which means devs will pay out the nose for no reason. The outrage exists for a reason
It's based on downloads. Of course those are easy to track. Outrage exists because people hate change. I get that, but it still isnt unreasonable.
Nobody here is arguing from direct information, just implications of vague statements. Here's where they spell it out in more detail:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/
Note the update there. They completely walked back their previous answer:
Which has lead to a lot of confusion. It seems like their "proprietary data model" is focused on another point, which is preventing install spamming. Or maybe it's also about reinstalls, even though they "don't receive end-player information" so that was impossible a few days ago.
Well, I am just going by what their own official statement is:
"We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user. We chose this because each time a game is downloaded, the Unity Runtime is also installed."
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
But the link that you sent indeed sounds a lot more vague. It'd be a major mistake on their part if they are not going to be transparant on how they are going to do the counting.