The fact that these decisions are coming down from the ex-CEO of EA Games, who was the CEO when EA was voted “Worst Company in the World”, just makes all this even more entertaining to watch.
GamePass and probably most cheap sales are all going up in flames because Unity has hired a demon to lead them into oblivion.
Right. Here’s how it works: Your game is on Gamepass, and a user installs it. Now instead of Microsoft paying you $0.15, then you paying Unity $0.10, Microsoft will just pay us directly the $0.10, and you still get your $0.05! See, it’s a great deal! Everybody gets their money and you don’t even have to deal with the Unity costs! Please, don’t go!!
Good business model. I hope Gamepass wil also limit number of game user can install, like, pick only 4 in 100 or so
And Mexico was going to pay for that southern boarder wall…
Will they tho?
It’s unclear if Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are aware of this particular change in policy, and whether they’d be willing to comply with Unity Technologies.
He could be the kind of person who writes things down on his vision board, then sends his thoughts out into the universe to make them come true. Like Elon.
PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox claim “no the fuck we won’t…”
They’ll just increase all prices by $1, and call it a day.
Listen peasants, if you don’t like the freeholder fees we charge, then surely Lord Microsoft will shelter you on his lands as a serf, and pay your fees on your behalf.
I wonder if it’s purposeful sabotage at this point. You can’t be that stupid and still be paid millions of dollars to do your job can you?
Capitalism is truly amazing if it can happen.
See: a certain owner of a (much less than) $44 billion social media company.
The CEO of Unity did sell off most of his own stock in the company shortly before the original announcement. It’s an open-and-shut case for insider trading charges if ever I had heard one.
Because picking a fight with some of the world’s biggest companies is the best form of damage control…
I’d like to watch them try to send an invoice to these companies.
Most likely they won’t ever try, it’s just a blatant lie because they have no grounds to even attempt it. They have a deal with the gamedev studio, not the platform owner.
I wonder how they’d enforce that exactly since none of those companies are likely to have a contract with Unity that says they’d pay anything like that. Their distribution contracts are with the studios… and the studios, if they keep their subscriptions would be the ones contracted with Unity. Good luck telling MS or Sony that your little indie company bound them into a contract with your engine vendor.
Good luck doing that too Nintendo. They’re professional dicks
Meanwhile, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony:
Actually…consumers end up paying for it. Companies will just increase prices as when the Government taxes them.
Companies will just increase prices whenever they can get away with it
Fixed that for ya.
Also valid. Yeah
By the definition of “distributor” this would include Steam, GOG, Epic, etc. as well.
In before one of them starts stripping or firewalling the phone-home code. What’s Unity gonna do? Valve hasn’t signed any contracts with them!
I don’t want another attack vector for some hacker on my computer. That phone home code will be the second coming of the Sony rootkit.
This sounds like it would mean charging Valve money for the privilege of using Valve’s own infrastructure every time a player installed a Unity game after a major PC upgrade/reinstall or after uninstalling that MMO they dumped every other game in their library try out.
Steam could probably bake a ban on software that uses installation trackers into their developer/publisher ToS, or ban the collection or transmission of Steam user data related to installations, or something similar.
No, they won’t. Unity has an agreement with the devs not the platform holders
all that will happen is that unity games won’t appear on subscription services
That cost will be passed on to the studios
