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Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
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Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

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[-] envis10n@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

If we could only use some sort of... identifier to know when a game has been installed... like some kind of... serial number or key that is unique per copy...

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[-] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

This issue exists with all proprietary software; if they make changes you dislike then either you put up with it or stop using it. They have unjust power of their users and even the most moral devs cannot forever resist temptation to use that power to earn money at the user's expense.

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