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Which is why Unreal Engine charges by revenue rather than by sale/install. It doesn't matter if the game if F2P, money earned is money earned.

Maybe it's for the best if they don't incentive the use of severed body parts.

We are seeing it now with them pretending to have been misunderstood but still intending to go ahead with it.

Yeah, these "clarifications" plainly contradict what they had told journalists before. They already had clarified that they would charge for all installations, not just the initial ones.

I also wonder what Microsoft thinks of this talk that they will be on the hook for Game Pass rather than the developer studio.

We don't know how they are measuring it. If it's baked into the engine and not removed by cracking groups, it just might cost more for the devs.

Indies are the ones who deserve to die the least.

I didn't know that. How do the developers get access to these builds? Are they sold? Or do they need to build it themselves?

I know and thank goodness for that... but there will be projects that simply won't be able to afford to move to entirely different engines. It's a lot of work that might have to be redone.

This might kill entire indie projects.

How many reinstalls? Because I have games I have bought 4 PCs/laptops ago, not counting some few more when I installed them in family members' computers to play with them. What about OS updates? Windows keeps insisting to move to 11.

Frankly, this doesn't sound reasonable at all. It's not even like Unity is doing any of the hosting to justify squeezing devs like this.

edit: Now it has been confirmed it's not measured on an unique hardware basis, any reinstall counts. It's just madness.

Charging "per install" as opposed to "per sale" will be goddamn awful. At best it might lead to DRM where you'll have a limited number of installs before you lose the game you bought.

Tech companies badly need to get their shit kicked in to stop with this "I have the right to change the terms unilaterally anytime"

Godot's only issue is the lack of console support, but that's because they can't get the licenses as an open source project.

Smart TVs in general suck but I'm getting a lot of mileage of my TCL Google TV, firmly in spite of what is intended, by sideloading apps.

Privacy and security-wise it's probably terrible but I'm just tired of having to think about it.

In the puzzle platformer Braid you can always rewind time, so any failure or minor mistake can be corrected by rewinding a little bit. Technically there is a fail state where you can die, but rewinding is such a basic mechanic, going back feels seamless.

It's a little sketchy but I sorta find valid the way Capcom is going about it, that they are going to sell their Mega Man gacha game as a standalone offline purchase now that the servers will shut down. At least it won't be lost to time.

Lets hope they at least keep it running for a few more years. It's sad that mobile games are treated as disposable.

Hopefully Mastodon can gain more popularity now.

Since I know myself as a person, Public Service Announcements and accontability on public media are complelely normal. It's only since the rise of internet media that has been created this attitude that tech companies can't be expected to have any responsibilties.

So, there can't be regulations and public interests because the people opposing these things when they are needed could misuse them? It doesn't seem like the problem is that, but just Republicans being consistently shitty and unhinged both ways. It's not like they need precedent to be terrible anyway, they make and break whatever precedents that might suit them.

Demanding that media cuts off health misinformation during a major health crisis is exactly the sort of thing that a government should do.

Almost like people with more money than sense can outvote everyone else.

How do you even count "people who didn't buy product X"? There could be millions more, either out of revolt or sheer disinterest, but that just doesn't matter for the companies selling a product. The only votes that end up counting are the ones from people buying.

People really need to drop that saying, because the market was never a democracy and it will never be. Hell, companies can even ignore the paying customers to do something else entirely because the ones who have the most money are the investors.