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by JumpCrisscross 1001 days ago
> Unity will limit fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers making over $1 million

This is 20% cheaper than Epic, correct?
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malermeister 1001 days ago
...but with the added expense and logistical burden of having to track all your installs nonetheless.
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ffgjgf1 1001 days ago
For many it will be much cheaper than that. Maybe even less than 0.05% (depending on how they track installs)
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malermeister 1001 days ago
How exactly would you track your installs? Say it's an offline-only game that is on GoG, how would you possibly know whether or not somebody copied the installer to another PC and installed it there?
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ffgjgf1 1001 days ago
Yeah. I’m not even sure someone at Unity knows. I’m just guessing that most games bought on Steam for instance wouldn’t be installed on more than 5 unique devices or so.

Without DRM (maybe even if it was cracked?) you’d be paying for every install of a pirated copy which would be absolutely absurd.

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