Unity is coming out with a new pricing model for 2024, where game developers will have to fork over money every time someone installs their game. this includes redownloads of already bought games, and downloads of games from places like game pass. it also applies to game demos and free games. it even applies if someone transfers a game from one device to another.
the policy applies if your company makes over $200,000 in yearly revenue and the game has been downloaded over a certain number of times in its entire lifetime.
there are rumors that gambling games and gotcha games are exempt.
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
So everyone else is probably just bewildered that Unity effectively handed over their market share if they follow through with this.
2023 does seem to be the year of corporate seppiku, just no honor only spilling of guts.
Unless it's the first of many and it becomes an industry standard.
I really doubt it, this is looking less how dlc and micotransactions were made normal and more the kind of fuck up caused when Bethesda tried to introduce paid mods.