[Lammy]

Until it's an established payment model for one product category, after which it fill feel more natural to extend it to others.

The worst part of it isn't even that devs would get their wallets shaken out but that it's really just surveillance in disguise. Those apps would “““have to””” spy on me as an end-user in order for them to know what to charge.

[jncfhnb]

I switched to unreal several years ago because Unity had written hundreds of gigabytes of log files complaining that it could not phone home and filled up my hard drive

[glenneroo]

I hope you filed a bug report.

[m463]

I think phoning home is the platform for data collecting ("advertising") revenue.

[gamblor956]

Unity has always had a separate license for the other types of applications, so it's a slippery slope argument without a slope.

The issue here is the surveillance aspect.

[Imustaskforhelp]

Now thinking about it, its so valid point, how would that even work though if I am being honest

like I am pretty sure that the only way that they can do this is via giving it internet access and if that's the case, I wonder how much spying it does on our computer before sending it to unity headquarters in the name of this industry fees

Please, someone create a #usegodot or some twitter thing to just get it trending. We need to use goodot (I tried typing godot but I wrote goodot TWICE which is so funny and ironical so I am keeping it here)

Also I wonder how it might stand in eu / gdpr

[matsemann]

Unreal already has % of revenue. How do they track that, and is this any different?

Aka my guess it's a combination of trust, verification using public numbers (like downloads on Steam) and the ability to do audits of some kind?

[jncfhnb]

I believe that’s correct. It’s primarily on you to report revenues and they can audit you if they think you’re lying.

[estimator7292]

Unity knows what project you're building and if you've built it under a paid license before. If they notice you using a free license, they'll go after you.

[xandrius]

If only godot was good. I think Stride3D has more chances of being a good replacement.