Spyke
dmv.social

What is the purpose of sharing this? To highlight how many devs are affected?

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kadureply
lemmy.world

Perhaps to avoid buying them?

I personally have a weird habit of uninstalling and reinstalling games a surprising number of times. If I know there's a fee associated with it, be it for the dev or Valve, and the money goes to vultures at Unity, I won't be buying.

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LordShrekreply
lemmy.ml

that'll probably hurt devs more than unity.

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kadureply

Not forced to buy a game, my man.

If it's Unity, or uses a weird launcher, or uses invasive DRM... Not getting my money.

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lowleveldatareply
programming.dev

To avoid re-installing them then, if we're going to play by the stupid rules. Just install it once and never ever uninstall it if you have even a slight chance to play it. Also make sure your disks have multiple backups.

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slembckereply

The way Unity announced such a big hostile change was executed unimaginably poorly. I'm not even going to say you are incorrect as they clarified it to include reinstalls, then reclarified it to be just the initial install. At the same time, they announced that the way they would bill it is by guessing how many installs you have using a "proprietary algorithm" and charging you based on that. So... everybody is wrong because they don't intend to tell people how they actually count anything. The details seem really important, and they still don't seem to know what they are. (eyeroll)

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I'd love to live in a world where I could just install everything and never struggle for storage space.

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Not only devs, players will most likely also be affected by a malware that will call after install

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lemmy.world

I wonder how many of these games will just disappear come January

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Oh no, two of my favorite chill out games are on this list (power wash simulator and dorfromantik).

My stress levels cannot handle the thought of losing them.

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Oof. Seeing Untitled Goose Game on this list makes me sad. My 8yo and I both (still) adore that game, and Iโ€™d hate for our future enjoyment of the game to contribute to any gouging of the devs.

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