Oh ffs Unity. I love(d) you, but I guess enshittification must go on. https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
@LouisIngenthron @shana @aras I mean sure, that might work, but it's not them being allowed to charge a fee, it's just straightforward extortion, it's literally just a protection racket where they smash your stuff if you don't pay them off.
@LouisIngenthron yeah, the bit where they say "the devs have to pay until the platforms do" is very kind of landlord-brain, like, "someone has to give us money and we don't care who" is pretty understandable as a motivation but it doesn't make sense as an enforceable contract, realistically #unity aren't about to sue apple for $100bn only to immediately divvie it up between a bunch of indie devs and f2p whale hunters, so in practice it means the devs pay because they can't afford lawyers good and the platforms just gently facepalm until unity go away
@andrewt Although, fwiw, I don't think they expect the platforms to actually foot the bill. I think they'd extort them into basically doing their collections for them.