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Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apparently Genshin Impact and some Nintendo Games are made in Unity, and there are even some plans to charge Microsoft for Game Pass installs.

I hope Unity's legal team is prepared.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

I hope Unity's legal team is prepared.

I really hope they're not, because this practice needs to crash and burn brightly as a warning beacon to other corpos' grubby fingers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope their anuses are prepared.

Nintendo sure as fuck aren't bringing any lube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mental image of "it's a Me!" thrust

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The only thing better is if Disney's legal department thinks there is a risk...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well I mean I wouldn't mind seeing Genshin Impact suffer. They're advertising and fanbase are insufferable. But I've never been a fan of Unity and it's nice to see everybody else getting on board now too.